Zoological Websites  

    Wednesday, 30 June 2004

UNIVERSITIES:

• Local:
  • University of Cape Town, Department of Zoology
  • University of Kwazulu Natal, Department of Biology
  • University of Limpopo, Department of Biodiversity
  • University of Natal at PieterMaritzburg, Department of Zoology and Entomology
  • University of the Orange Free State, Department of Zoology and Entomology
  • University of Port Elizabeth Department of Zoology
  • North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, Subject Group Zoology
  • University of Pretoria, Department of Zoology and Entomology
  • Rhodes University, Department of Zoology and Entomology
  • University of Stellenbosch, Department of Botany and Zoology
  • University of the Witwatersrand, Department of Zoology

• Overseas:
  • Worldwide list of Universities
  • Global University Network
  • Biology Depts in UK Universities

MUSEUMS:

• Local:
  • Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
  • National Museum of Namibia
  • National Museum, Bloemfontein
  • Albany Museum Grahamstown
  • Natal Museum KwaZulu-Natal
  • South African Museum Cape Town
• Overseas:
  • British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) London
  • National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Smithsonian Institution Washington DC
  • Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) Cambridge USA - also known as Agassiz Museum
  • American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) New York
    
  • International list of Natural History Museums

CONSERVATION ORGANISATIONS:

• Endangered Wildlife Trust(EWT)
• Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife 
• South African National Parks (SANP)
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
• Cape Nature
• Africa Geographic

SPECIALIST INSTITUTIONS:

• Local:
  • Avian Demography Unit(UCT)
  • Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, UCT
• Overseas:
  • British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
  • International Center for Antarctic Information and Research (ICAIR, NZ)
  • Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:

• Local:
  • Entomological Society of Southern Africa
  • The Herpetological Association of Africa
  • Microscopy Society of Southern Africa
  • Parasitological Society of Southern Africa
  • South African Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Southern African Society for Systematic Biology

   

  
  
• Overseas:

  Evolution and Systematics

  • European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB)
  • International Society for Biochemical Systematics (ISBS)
  • International Willi Hennig Society Linnean Society

    Ecology and Conservation Biology

  • Society for Conservation Biology
  • Society for Ecological Restoration

    Zoology

  • Zoological Society of Bangladesh (ZSB)

    Herpetology

  • Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR)

    Entomology

  • Florida Entomological Society

    Ornithology

  • American Ornithologist's Union (AOU)
  • Association for Field Ornithologists
  • Australian Bird Study Association (ABSA)
  • Bioaccoustics Research Program (Cornell University)
  • BirdNet - The Ornithological Council (USA)
  • British Ornithologists Union (BOU)
  • British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
  • Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
  • Cooper Ornithological Society (COS)
  • International Ornithological Committee (IOC)
  • Pacific Seabird Group
  • The Ornithological Web Library (OWL)
  • Raptor Research Foundation (RRF)
  • Seccion Mexicana del Cosejo Internatcional para la Preservatcion de las Aves
  • Society for Canadian Ornithologists
  • Society for Caribean Ornithology
  • The Waterbird Society
  • Wilson Ornithological Society

RESEARCH AND INTEREST GROUPS:

• Local:
  • Bird Information Resource Center (Transvaal Museum)
  • Bird Life South Africa
  • Communication biology research group (Wits university)
  • Conservation genetics and speciation research group, UND.
  • FitzPatrick Bird Communication Library (Transvaal Museum)
• Overseas:
  • International Shrew(-ist's) Site
  • The Bird Web(UK)
  • ITIS Coleoptera Home Page
  • Costa Rica Coleoptera Page
  • Va Herper's International Directory of Reptile and Amphibian resources

OTHER BIOLOGICAL SITES:

• Resource guide for Zoologists
• University of Western Australia (UWA) Zoology Page
• Wildnet Africa
• Wits Zoology Dept's GREAT LINKS SITE

WEB-RELATED SITES:

• Looking for a WWW address (URL)?
• Worldwide geographical listing of WWW sites
• Looking for files via FTP ? (UCT Archie)
• WWW Virtual Library at Harvard