The Bill Woodley
Mount Kenya Trust: Helping Preserve and Protect
Mount Kenya (http://www.mountkenyatrust.com/)
“The Bill Woodley Mount Kenya Trust was established in 1999 in order to
raise funds for projects to preserve and protect Mount Kenya.”
Development Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/)
“The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals
build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty.” Search
by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites
and documents.
Global gazetteer (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/)
An online gazetteer searchable by country and then by place. Results give longitude,
latitude, and altitude of each location.
International Weather From WeatherHub (http://www.weatherhub.com/global/)
An English language home page providing links to sites offering international
weather information by city.
Kenya Meteorological Department. (http://www.meteo.go.ke/)
In addition to offering climatic information, the site gives information about
the environmental effects of drought, etc. as well as links to sites offering
additional environmental information.
Kenya Wildlife Service (http://www.kws.org/)
Its mission is “to work with others to sustainably conserve, protect and
manage Kenya's invaluable biodiversity for the benefit of the people of Kenya
and as a world heritage.”
MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/)
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.
National Parks and Reserves:
Kenya (http://www.kilimanjaro.com/kenya/parkke.htm)
Organizes information about 55 parks and reserves into four regions: Central
Kenya Highlands & Great Rift Valley; Western Kenya; Southern Kenya; and Kenya
Coast.
UT 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.
Geography and Map Division (http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/)
Website of one of the largest map repositories in the world. |