Site Map

Nature Worldwide is a complex net of websites with about 2000 pages, that we tried to organize it in a logical way. You can access the information through 3 navigation facilities. In order to find your way through the rich information sources of our website, you may want to spend a minute reading through these site map navigation notes.

Also in the left border, you will find our 4- coloured NAVIGATION BAR, that organizes links almost identically as the Site Map Table on this page, using the same colour per topics group. Depending on the domain where you are at the moment, the navigation bar will open a page from the main website or from one of the support websites, without you noticing the difference.

All our pages have at least a TOP and a LEFT border. In the top border you will find automatically generated links of web pages, that are different for every page, containing:

In the left border, you will also find automatically generated links, listing the closest related web pages of the next level down.

SITE MAP TABLE
SITE FACILITIES AND METHODOLOGY
WICE	World Institute for Conservation and Environment, host and author of the Nature Worldwide Web Net.
Our Cuyabeno lodge	In 1985, when everybody talked about ecotourism, but nobody did anything about it, we tried successfully to generate visitation income for our favorite Cuyabeno National Park by setting up an experimental ecotourism lodge and biological station. Now, 2 decades later, the parks deforestation has stabilized and a dozen of lodges and thousands of visitors provide alternative income for the local population. Our lodge is located on the prettiest location of the reserve, on a peninsula, right on the border of the Great Cuyabeno Lake
WHAT IS NEW	Our latest additions and changes.
METHODOLOGY	Brief methodology on how we collected the information on the distribution of birds and mammals in the world. Also 3 pages with ornithological reference titles that we consulted.
COMPUTER WISDOM	Here we share lots of ideas on computer use, both in windows and linux. Just go there and look for yourself. Many money saving ideas and some useful totally free alternatives to Bill Gates' products.
FORUMS
PICTURE ALBUM AND FORUMS	Can be used to share your favourite pictures of protected areas as well as ideas on conservation with other conservationists, ask for assistance or and opinion on a conservation topic; share a field observation or just simply leave a message on your whereabouts while you are traveling.
SPECIALIZED GOOGLE SEARCH
NATURE SEARCH	When you search in Google only a limited number of webpages comes to the front and countless with very usefull information for you never make it to the top. To deal with this situation, Google facilitates the creation of customized search engines for special needs. We created specialized Google non-profit search engines for information on Nature, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Insects, Butterflies, Flora and commercial search engines for ecotourims, equipment and nature products.
WORLD LINKS
WORLDLinks	The Links page lists links to World Wide sites on Species, National Parks, Natural Resources, GIS, Monitoring, Eco-tourism, and Eco-travel companies. Country specific links are listed in our country pages.
DOCUMENTATION
DOCUMENTATION	We are gradually building up useful documentation on conservation as well as references for natural resources management, such as several terms definition lists, etc.
WORLD REGIONS
WORLD REGIONS	From here you select the regions where you want to go. The checklist are listed per country and for large countries per state or province. The world is divided into 10 practical regions. Each region lists the country pages of all the countries of that region larger than 20,000 km2. For each country we list the checklist of the birds, the species list of the mammals and the list of national parks and protected areas. There are country specific links on various themes such as conservation organizations, travel facilitators, country information, etc.
NORTH AMERICA	Countries of North America with their states.
CENTRAL AMERICA	Countries of Central America
SOUTH AMERICA	Countries of South America
EUROPE	Countries of Europe, including Russia until the Ural. Also remote islands under European administration.
WEST AFRICA	Countries of West Africa
EAST AFRICA	Countries of East Africa
WESTERN ASIA	Countries of West Asia or the "Near East"
SOUTH-EAST ASIA	Countries of Southern and East Asia
NORTHERN ASIA	Countries of Northern Asia
ISLANDS & POLES	Major insular countries, oceans and international polar territories.
THEMES
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT	Information on natural resources management, divided up into the different themes that follow.
NATIONAL PARKS	Information on national parks. This does not include the protected area list of each individual country. Those you must enter via the REGIONS on the individual countries.
MONITORING	Methods on how to monitor nature and protected areas. Many files of documents and tools, as well as the world's most complete stand-alone database for monitoring of protected areas, species and ecosystems.
WATER MANAGEMENT	This page is under construction. It will inform you on many issues related to water management.
GIS4BIOLOGISTS	GIS as a tool for biologists and natural resources management. Comparison of suitability and costs of main software packages on the market.
ILWIS	ILWIS, the most user-friendly and comprehensive vector + raster GIS in the world for a mere €100.
ECOTOURISM	Not yet developed.
ECOSYSTEMS	Information on ecosystems, ecosystem mapping, endemism, etc. We supply you with well tested methods and scientific tools. Hundreds of working files of documents, images and shape files of the Ecosystems Map of Central America.
CORAL REEFS	A page under construction highlighting coral reefs. Some interesting stuff on the Central America Reefs.
BIODIVERSITY	Our thoughts on biodiversity, information on the Convention on Biological Diversity, etc.
WORLD LIST OF BIRDS	Checklists of the birds of all countries of the world. All the birds of the world in several languages. On birds: English (100%), French (100%), Spanish (60%), German (80%), Portuguese (35%) on 10 pages of 1000 each.. many other languages for all the species of that language distribution, etc.
MAMMALS	All mammal species of the world with names in various languages.
REPTILIANS	Not yet developed
AMPHIBIANS	Not yet developed
FISHES	Not yet developed
BUTTERFLIES	Not yet developed