Links to other useful resources are featured here.
Ethnobotanical Databases
- Dr. Duke’s Ethnobotanical and Phytochemical Database is a useful database for searching for known chemical constituents of plants and also some of the bioactivities of these compounds.
- Native American Ethnobotany Database is a useful database of foods, drugs, dyes and fibers of Native American Peoples, derived from plants.
Taxonomy
- TROPICOS is a reliable database of accepted scientific names of plants from the Missouri Botanical Gardens
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Website
- The International Plant Names Index is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community.
- Plant Atlas website incorporates standards-based data-driven internet technologies to disseminate plant information, images and distribution maps to the public.
- Delta Key The DELTA format (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. DELTA-format data can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, cladistic or phenetic classifications, and information-retrieval systems.
- EFloras Website featuring links to flora of different geographic regions.
Non-profit Organizations
- Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions addresses a fundamental challenge in 21st century world: the need for new medicines and new strategies for the discovery of such medicines. Drawing on, and catalizing an interdisciplinary consortium of institutions worldwide, researchers in the Institute explore ancient books in libraries across the globe, bring to light and investigate their texts, and create on this basis a new knowledge that will ultimately lead to new discoveries and procedures for the integration of traditional resources into contemporary medical research.
- People and Plants International. Mission: We believe that cultural diversity is inherently linked to biological diversity and that effective stewardship of our Earth must involve local people. We also believe that traditional knowledge systems are critical to manage and conserve threatened landscapes and adapt to global change. PPI works alongside local groups to foster responses that build upon their skills and practices. We also work at national, regional and international levels to guide policy and promote ethical and sustainable trade.
- The Amazon Conservation Team. The survival of the Amazon has great ramifications for life across the planet. A healthy and intact Amazon forest will help stabilize the climate patterns on which world economies and ecosystems depend, and will continue to serve as the planet’s greatest storehouse of biodiversity, sheltering a vast array of species of potentially profound value to human health. The Amazon Conservation Team was formed to ensure that the invaluable resources and services provided by the Amazon may continue to exist for the benefit of future generations. With your help and support, ACT is working hard to ensure that these forests continue to sustain us.
- Global Diversity Foundation is a family of organizations and regional initiatives that promote agricultural, biological and cultural diversity around the world through research, training and social action. It comprises the Global Diversity Foundation, registered as a non-profit in the United States and as a charitable organization in the UK, as well as programmes in Mesoamerica, North Africa, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa.
- Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment. Our vision is the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through the self-determination of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Our mission is to facilitate the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the development and implementation of laws and policies that relate to the conservation and customary uses of biodiversity and the protection of associated cultural heritage.
- Survival International: The Movement for Tribal Peoples We help tribal peoples protect their lives, lands and human rights. We oppose the racist attitudes which underpin the way tribal peoples are viewed, and seek to stop the illegal and unjust way they are treated.
- Sacred Seeds Sanctuary is a network of sanctuaries preserving biodiversity and plant knowledge.We accomplish this through living gardens containing locally important plants, focusing on medicinals but including those of ceremonial, food, and craft value. We explore every avenue to preserve diverse ecosystems, threatened traditions, and communities that recognize the valuable asset of their plant knowledge. We work hand-in-hand with the local people to determine if and how a Sacred Seeds sanctuary would effectively promote their traditions and conservation of their plants. We enlist the expertise, unique skills and resources of the community and together we create useful, pragmatic, sustainable solutions.
Botanic Gardens
- Atlanta Botanic Garden, Atlanta, GA (USA)
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL (USA)
- Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO (USA)
- National Tropical Botanic Garden, Hawai’i and Florida (USA)
- The New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY (USA)
- Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England (UK)
- Eden Project, Cornwall, England (UK)
- Orto Botanico di Napoli, Naples, Italy
