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Students and Educators: Links
MORE TO EXPLORE! LINKS FOR STUDENTS & EDUCATORS U.S. FWS Law Enforcement Kids' Site U.S. FWS Endangered Species Program The Australia Zoo is synonymous with Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, and is dedicated to Conservation through Exciting Education! Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center provides care and treatment for sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife, while offering educational programs on wildlife, conservation and the environment to schools, organizations and the general public. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) WORLD WILDLIFE FUND (WWF) is the largest private U.S. organization working worldwide to conserve nature. WWF works to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth and the health of ecological systems by protecting natural areas and wildlife populations, promoting sustainable use of natural resources, and promoting more efficient resource and energy use and the maximum reduction of pollution. WWF is affiliated with the international WWF network, which has national organizations, associates, or representatives in nearly 40 countries. In the United States, WWF has more than one million members. TRAFFIC USA is the wildlife trade-monitoring arm of WWF-U.S. IUCN Red List of Endangered Species IUCN - The World Conservation Union, through its Species Survival Commission (SSC) has for more than four decades been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation. The SSC remains firmly committed to providing the world with the most objective, scientifically-based information on the current status of globally threatened biodiversity. TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, works to ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums and 9 research centers. Visit the Smithsonian in person or online and you will see why it represents for so many the treasured icons of our past, the vibrant art of the present, and the scientific promise of the future. Also visit Smithsonian for Students and Smithsonian for Educators. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
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