GULF OF GUINEA CONSERVATION GROUP

GULF OF GUINEA ISLANDS' BIODIVERSITY NETWORK

LINKS TO OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

This section has now been divided into two sections, the first containing links directly related to the Gulf of Guinea region and the second to more general biodiversity sites (which have given us links on their pages thus increasing our hit rate!)

Gulf of Guinea and regional links

Projecto Delfim conducts research into cetaceans including those found around the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe

Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

California Academy of Sciences Gulf of Guinea Islands Biodiversity Project

 Conservacion y Utilizacion Racional de los Ecosistemas Forestales de Guinea Ecuatorial

    Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program
 

    Conservation et Utilisation rationelle des Ecosystemes forestiers d'Afrique Centrale
 
 
African Rattan Research Program

  Central African Regional Program for the Environment

Fatbirder on Birdwatching in São Tomé e Príncipe Useful guide of what to see, where to stay, how to get there etc.

Francisco Newton - Cartas da Nova Atlantida A fascinating website about the Portuguese explorer and naturalist Francisco Newton who spent ten years in the islands of the Gulf of Guinea from 1885-1895 and discovered many of the islands' endemic species. Contains many of his letters to Bocage, a chronology of his travels, and an extensive bibliography.

Boyd Alexander in Bioko. Another contribution from the same website as the Newton pages documenting the ornithologist's visit to Bioko at the beginning of the century.

Dendroaspis jamesoni in São Tomé. 19th century reports of the presence of the green mamba on the island of São Tomé are researched through the works of Fischer, Moller, Newton, Bocage and Fea. From the same authors of the works on Newton and Boyd Alexander. 

Júlio Henriques 1917 - "A ilha de S. Tomé sob o ponto de vista histórico-natural e agrícola" Extracts from Henriques' fascinating summary of the natural history and culture of São Tomé at the beginning of the 20th century.

Coastal marine fishes of São Tomé Island (Gulf of Guinea) Paper in pdf format  by a team from the University of Azores.

Conservation of the seabird community in São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea) (University of the Azores)

Arthropod surveys on Bioko, Equatorial Guinea Preliminary report on the Diptera, Carabidae and Araneae of Bioko resulting from 1998 fieldwork conducted by the California Academy of Sciences.

Volcano World - Geology of the Gulf of Guinea Islands A short introduction to the geology of the islands by Dr. Dan N. Barfod of the Isotope Geosciences Unit, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center.

Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre - Images of the Cameroon Line volcanic chain Further information on volcanism in the region by Dr. Dan N. Barfod.

Gulf of Guinea Current Meterological Images From Eumetsat.

Gulf of Guinea Current Meterological Images From NASA Global Hydrology and Climate Center

Orchidaceae of the Gulf of Guinea islands - Tariq Stevart, author of the ECOFAC guide to the orchids of São Tomé and Príncipe, now has a website about central African orchids.

São Tomé e Príncipe Development Forum A discussion board supported by the Island Resources Foundation and the NGO ECO-STP.

Learning through Windows: São Tomé and Príncipe A research partnership between Little Heath School, Berkshire, UK and the Geography Department of the Institute of Education, University of London. This project is supported by the Geographical Association, UK and funded by the Fast Track Teachers Programme and aims to develop an educational resource to enhance opportunities for 11-15 year old students explore the relationship between oil and future development in STP.

Brahms Online Database of the Pteridophytes of São Tomé and Príncipe A superb fully illustrated online database prepared by Estrela Figueiredo at the Herbarium, Centro de Botânica da Junta de Investigaçoes Cientificas do Ultramar, Lisboa, Portugal. BRAHMS is database software developed by the University of Oxford for botanical research and herbarium management.

Brahms Online Database of the Rubiaceae of São Tomé and Príncipe As above.

A new goby-shrimp association from Príncipe Peter Wirtz describes the first east Atlantic goby-shrimp association. Both the goby and shrimp species concerned are probably new to science and the shrimp belongs to a genus never before recorded to exist in such a symbiotic relationship.

Other biodiversity and conservation links

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

    Forests.org's Forest Conservation Links