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Elephant
Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project
Asian Elephant Conservation Fund - A U.S. Fish and Wildlife administered fund offering grants for the conservation of wild Asian Elephants - site offers applications and summaries of past awarded projects
African Elephant Specialist Group (of IUCN) - excellent resource
Asian Elephant Research And Conservation Centre AERCC applied research and direct field conservation
Asian Elephant Specialist Group (of IUCN) new website!
IUCN/SSC AfESG Guidelines for the in situ Translocation of African Elephants for Conservation Purposes
Elephant Listening Project at Cornell’s Bioacoustics Research Program - FAQ
Elephant Managers Association  (EMA) 
Elephant Management & Owners Association South Africa
Elephant News from Save the Elephants
Elephant Welfare Association – India
Elephants Umbrella Fund - Rescues distressed individual elephants in SE Asia (9 & counting as of Jan. 2008)
European Elephant Manager and Keeper Association (EEKMA)
Friends of the Asian Elephant – Thailand
International Elephant Foundation  IEF)
Information Resources on Elephants -bibliography by U.S. Department of Agriculture,  Animal Welfare Information Center
Living with Elephants Foundation
Operation Noah's Ark - Angola The Kissama Foundation's Namibia/Botswana to Angola re-location of elephants
Dr. Bets Rasmussen (elephant researcher) the pheromone doctor.
Riddles Elephant Sanctuary - Arkansas (14 elephants, African & Asian, male & female)
Ringling Brothers Center for Elephant Conservation
Savanna Elephant Vocalization Project (Joyce Poole) “goal is to be the best source of information on elephant communication available online”
Save the Elephants - African elephant database plus news and more
Thai Elephant Conservation Center
Dr. Bruce Schulte, Georgia Southern University conservationist and behaviorist working with elephant research
Smithsonian National Zoo Asian Elephant Interactive GIS Atlas depicts the remaining habitat of Asian elephants, and allows you to zoom in on these regions. Also, if you choose the tab Identify, and click on an area, a box appears and tells you the region, size of region (in hectares), and country.
"Studying elephants” handbook The online edition of Studying Elephants is in PDF format, digitized and made available on the web with permission from the African Wildlife Foundation - offered by the AfESG
The Elephant Sanctuary - Tennessee (19 female elephants, Asian & African)

Click here to link to another site to listen to samples or purchase the elephant band music made available by Richard Lair and Dave Soldier

Conservation
Animal Movements And Disease Risk: A Workbook
Bushmeat Action project
CITES web site
EarthTrends The environmental information portal
Fauna and Flora International (FFI) 
Global Response - Environmental action and educational network, has an active campaign against deforestation in Indonesia
IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species
IUCN reintroduction guidelines
IUCN – SSC (Species Survival Commission)
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
Population Statistics - Here you will find a historical, demographical and statistical overview of the population of all the countries in the world, their administrative divisions and their important cities. by Jan Lahmeyer
Redefining Progress
TRAFFIC  TRAFFIC's mission is to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature
Wildlife Conservation Society  (WCS) 
Wildlife Disease Association
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) 
WWF (World Wildlife Fund) - US  
World Resources Institute

Conservation - Asia
Asian Nature Conservation Foundation - ANCF, Bangalore, India.  working to stem declining natural landscape and biological diversity of India and other countries in tropical Asia, through systematic research and applied science.
FFI Asian Elephant Conservation Programme
Friends of the Earth site about deforestation in Sumatra
The Indonesian Nature Conservation Database
Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society
Tesso Nilo Flying Squads - WWF human-elephant conflict program in Sumatra
Taman Safari Indonesia (zoo in Indonesia active in conservation)
TRAFFIC lstudies on elephants and elephant products in Asia 
WildAid - Provides direct protection for wildlife in danger, through wildlife law enforcement, habitat protection, education and community outreach.
WWF Indonesia

Veterinary
Alliance of Veterinarians for the Environment  (AVE) 
AGRICOLA - The National Agriculture Library's free, searchable database; encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences. Includes both articles and books. - click here to learn more about using and accessing this resource (searching free but retrieval fees may apply for documents)
American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV)  
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) The USDA agency
regulating the humane care of animals used in research, exhibition, and
the wholesale pet trade.
Bacteriology resources (2)
   http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/
   http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook
Center for Veterinary Medicine
This agency of the Food and Drug Administration regulates the manufacture and distribution of drugs, devices, and food additives given to animals.
Centers for Disease Control: Zoonotic Diseases An alphabetical listing of infections with fact sheets, articles from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Emerging Infections Diseases Journal.
EAZWV – European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians
The Charles Louis Davis, D.V.M. Foundation is the largest organization in the world ... in the formal or informal, study, practice or teaching of ... Veterinary, Wildlife and Zoological Pathology ... A wealth of free pathology information ...
Engender Health course designed to strengthen infection prevention practices in low-resource settings.
Global Health Network University site features over 2000 lectures on human and veterinary topics including epidemiology, diseases, public health, veterinary preventive medicine, and veterinary virology
Google Web Directory: Veterinary Medicine
Infectious Disease Web Link
Iowa State offers fact sheets and powerpoint lectures on 116 reportable and zoonotic diseases
IUCN reintroduction guidelines
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals The purpose is to contribute to the international harmonisation of methods for the surveillance and control of the most important animal diseases. Standards are described for laboratory diagnostic tests and the production and control of biological products (principally vaccines) for veterinary use across the globe.
MedVet Searchable database for veterinary journals which do not appear in PubMed. TOCs available, some abstracts; no full-text (except at discretion of publisher if directed to publisher's site).
The Merck Veterinary Manual - online
Necropsy Procedures for Wild Animals (in English)
Net Vet Resources - http://netvet.wustl.edu
Office International des Epizootics
Open Directory Project: Veterinary Medicine
Promed (emerging diseases) - a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.  Promed is an electronic outreach reporting system, open to all sources and free of political restraint.  (free)
PubMed
A biomedical literature search tool for accessing literature citations and
linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers. From
the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Safe Capture Inc. http://www.safecapture.com
ToxNet
A collection of searchable databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals,
and related areas. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
USDA TB Guidelines (Tuberculosis) (see also in our Protocols Page)
Veterinary Care of African Elephants A downloadable 59 page manual by
J. G du Toit
Virology labs, in the U.S. and other countries
Wildlife capture and care manual online
Wildlife Disease Association
Wildlife Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
WildPro Wildlife Information Network (WIN) is a veterinary science-based Charity whose mission is to provide information on the health and management of free-ranging and captive animals and emerging infectious diseases to wildlife professionals and decision-makers worldwide.
World Organization for Animal Health, Office International des Epizooties
World Wide Wounds is an Internet-only electronic woundcare journal. The mission of World Wide Wounds is to be the premier online resource for peer-reviewed information on dressing materials providing practical guidance on all aspects of wound management to health professionals worldwide. Veterinary information is included.

Other

American Zoo and Aquarium Association
Argos satellite data collection system
Guggenheim Foundation
Information on Conservation, Wildlife, and Travel in Africa
links to resources on risks and ethics for international conservation projects
Oregon Zoo
Servants of Ganesh a documentary based in Nepal and detailing the life of an elephant handler
Transparency International, the only international non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption, brings civil society, business, and governments together in a powerful global coalition
 

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