Forestry Internet Information Resources

Forests are one of the biggest gifts of nature and one of the most valuable resources for future human existence in sustainable way. Forestry has emerged as a subject for study; a lot of work is going on all over the globe hence it is need of the time for scientists, researchers, administrators, and policy makers etc to keep themselves informed and be knowledgeable. The Internet has re-modified the information environment, scientific communications are changing at a very fast pace, and the style of information exchange are also changing. Large amount of voluminous data and meaningful information on an almost all aspects of forestry and allied sciences are available on the Internet and can be searched round the clock. To reap the benefit of information it should be readily available, accurate, in-time, omnipresent and should also be cost-effective. In recent decades, the intensive development of Internet has taken place due to fast technological developments. Internet has emerged as a sole leading information provider. In past few years an uncountable amount of research & policy papers by different and diversified group authors devoted to forestry and allied sciences are available on the Internet, apart from this information related to various organizations, institutes, research establishments, colleges societies are also available on internet. All available information on the Internet is accessible to users with valid internet connection at all times. Voluminous information is available on the internet to meet specific purposes. Information from primary, secondary and tertiary sources are also available. The information is available in various forms and formats. The most preferred format of information retrieval is PDF apart from it other available forms are DOC, JPEG, PPT etc. The information on internet can be remotely accessed and retrieved by directly browsing the concerned website or through various repositories or libraries. It is very difficult for a person to remember addresses of a range of websites at an instance. This work is an attempt to categories forestry into various sections and to consolidate the websites available in each section. The informative sites are further systematized. This appraisal gives an analysis of some forestry web resources. An extended list of web links is given in Tabular form. The paper summarizes selected forests and forestry related internet information resources.