Geography and Environment: Ethiopia
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- Explore the Regions - Ethiopian Highlands (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/ethiopia/ethiopia%5Foverview.html)
Produced by PBS, presents attractively presented essays with illustrations about
the peoples, history and environmental concerns of Ethiopia.
Birds of Tigray, Ethiopia - Lieuwe J. Dijksen (http://members.lycos.nl/Tigrai/)
"During our stay in Tigray I made extensive notes of the birds I saw during
my 3 to 4 excursions a week. Most observations were done in the surroundings
of Abi Adi and Makele ... [also ]the Jijike and the Takeze river (South West
of Abi Adi), the surroundings of Agbe and Yetchila (to the South), Hagere Selam
(to the East), Ambera (to the North West) and Werk Amba and Adaha (to the north)
... Special birding trips were made to Adua and Aksum, Adigrat, lake Ashenge
(mid winter waterbird counts) and surroundings and Desa'a forest north east of
Makele."
Ethiopian Mapping Authority (http://www.telecom.net.et/%7Eema/)
"The Ethiopian Mapping Authority was established in 1954 under the then
Imperial Ethiopian Ministry of Education and Fine Arts as a small unit with the
task of producing maps for educational purposes. Since its establishment, the
status and organizational position of the Authority in the public sector has
changed several times. To meet the pressing demands for survey data and maps
as basic tools in the national development program, the agency was reorganized
in 1980 as an Authority."
Ethiopian Tree Fund Foundation (http://www.etff.org)
"Ethiopian Tree Fund Foundation is a non-profit professional organization
incorporated in the State of Virginia, United States. This Organization is created
with singular task of reclaiming the land of Ethiopia. This challenge has become
more urgent after the recent major forest fire that devastated one of the last
remaining virgin tropical forests in the southern part of Ethiopia. To meet this
challenge, ETFF, plans to work in close cooperation with government ministries
and educational institutions, UN agencies, such as FAO, research universities
worldwide and NGOs..."
Global gazetteer (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ET/)
Directory of cities, towns and regions in Ethiopia. Results give longitude,
latitude, and altitude of each location.
Institute of Biodiversity Conservation
and Research (IBCR) (Ethiopia) (http://www.telecom.net.et/%7Eibcr/)
IBCR has one center (Plant Genetic Resources Center), five departments (Animal
Genetic Resources, Microbial Genetic Resources, Ecosystem Conservation, Biotechnology & Biosafety,
and Ethnobiology) and four services (Policy, Plan and Program, Audit & Inspection,
Information, and Administration & Finance services)..."
Integrated Forest
Management Project Adaba-Dodola (IFMP) (Ethiopia) (http://www.telecom.net.et/%7Ebaletrek/about%5Fusl.htm)
"IFMP is a technical cooperation project of the Governments of Ethiopia
and Germany started in 1995. Its mission is to develop a feasible approach for
the conservation of natural forests in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. A model
for participatory, community-based forest management is being implemented by
the project in the Forest Priority Area of Adaba-Dodola located on the northern
slopes of the Bale Mountains adjacent to the Bale Mountains National Park."
International Weather From
WeatherHub: Ethiopia (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/et.htm)
This page provides up-to-date weather information on Ethiopia by city.
MapQuest - world atlas Ethiopia (http://www.mapquest.com/atlas/?region=ethiopia)
General site for maps. Search by country and by city.
Maps.com (formerly Magellan Geographix) (http://www.maps.com/)
User may view samples of the wide variety of maps available as well as order
maps or atlases, by downloading, or on CD-ROM or in hard copy.
T'Kur Abay Blue Nile Research and Resource
Center (http://www.ethiopians.com/abay/)
Includes information about the geological, hydrological and political dimensions
of the Nile River valley.
UT map library online, Perry-Castañeda (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html)
The University of Texas' Perry Castañeda Library Map collection here offers
a variety of historical, geological and political maps of many countries.
United Nations
Cartographic Section (http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm)
Available in English or French versions. Offers detailed maps of many countries.
United States. Library of Congress Country
Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ettoc.html)
A series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress
under the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook Program sponsored by the Department
of the Army.
United States. Library of Congress.
Geography and Map Division (http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world.
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