Useful Links

We have collected some useful links. They categorised and listed below:

Link Categories

The Cook Islands - its islands
A great general introduction to the islands of the Cook Islands, opening at the aerial views page.
Atiu Island
Atiu presented by people who live there. An informative and interesting site.
Cook Islands Government
The official site of the Cook Islands Government

Bernice P Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Bishop Museum staff, Allen Allison and Rich Pyle, put the database on the web in 2003. The Museum hosts the website, and its staff have provided many identifications.
United Nations Development Programme
UNDP Multi Country Office in Samoa for Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa & Tokelau. The database benefited from several short-term visits by taxonomists under the UNDP-funded NBSAP and NBSAP Add-on Enabling Activites.
Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN)
The Pacific Basin Information Node is a regional node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII). The mission of NBII is to collect and organize biological data from the U.S. and make it available to scientists, resource managers, policy-makers, educators and the general public.
NZ Agency for International Development
This agency enabled the Natural Hertiage Project to employ a database assistant for two years.
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
This agency supported the fledgling Natural Heritage Project with essential equipment, such as cameras, printers, and the Oxford English Dictionary on CD!

Cook Islands National Environment Service
The official site of the National Environment Service.

French Polynesia - shrimps and crabs
A comprehensive list, often with photos, of Stomatopods (Mantis-Shrimps) and Decapods (Shrimps and Crabs).

Biodiversity Database

random image from database