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African Blackwood Conservation Project
The African Blackwood Conservation Project is devoted to conserving the valuable blackwood tree in Tanzania, Africa. Noteworthy features of this project’s Web site include Africa environmental news headlines, a photo journal index of project efforts in Tanzania, and photos of African blackwood and products derived from this wood.
Alaska Rainforest Campaign (ARC)
This Web site is dedicated exclusively to the Alaskan rainforests. Take a visual or audio tour through the rainforest, or view a map of the Alaskan National Rainforests.
The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
By helping the rainforest peoples manage and protect their cultures, The Amazon Conservation Team also helps them protect the forest ecosystems that surround and sustain them. Visit ACT’s Web site to locate information on indigenous groups in tropical countries of Central and South America, to learn about their dependency on and use of tropical forests, and to read stories on the medicine men and women of the rainforest.
Amazon Interactive
The Amazon Interactive Web site has resources on the Amazon rainforest and the people who live there. This site explores the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Special features include geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon and an ecotourism simulation game.
Amazon Life
Learn about the ecology, biodiversity, environmental impacts, problems, and solutions facing one of the world’s greatest natural resources, the Amazon Rainforest, by visiting Amazon Life’s Web site. This site offers general info about the Amazon using maps and statistics, provides pictures of the plants and animals living within the Amazon, and has a questionnaire to test your knowledge.
Brazil: Earth’s Laboratory
Read a special news story on the fading Amazonian rainforests of Brazil, view a slideshow of Brazil and use interactive features to learn more about the Brazilian rainforests.
Conservation Information Forum
The Conservation Information Forum supports habitat and resource management for the Orang Rimba (Kubu) people, who have been marginalized by the reduction of their habitat due to the conversion of forest oil palm plantations and transmigration settlements. The WARSI site provides information pertaining to this forum, reports, and maps which can be accessed and downloaded free of charge.
Guiana Shield Media Project
The Guiana Shield Media Project is an environmental media project with a focus on the Guiana Shield region of South America, stretching from northeastern Brazil, through French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela and eastern Colombia, up to the Andes. This Web site has GSMP information in 5 languages, a virtual eco-tour through the Rupununi Savannahs and guidebooks listed on the bookstore pages.
Passport to Knowledge -- Live from the Rainforest
The wealth of information on the trees, plants, birds, animals and insects of the rainforest that is easy to read and extremely educational makes "Passport to Knowledge" worth the visit. Eye-catching maps and graphics explain what rainforests are and where they are found. Field researchers and a multimedia production crew use satellites and online connections to erase the miles between you and the rainforest. Biographies and field journals from scientists and special student correspondents take you “behind the screens.” Also, this Web site provides a multi-media guide to books, articles, videos, CD-ROMs and additional online resources.
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
RAN promotes rainforest conservation, restoration and global grassroots activism.Through the RAN site, you can find a variety of information on how to join one of RAN’s campaigns to bring corporate and government policies into alignment with popular support for rainforest conservation. Other web features include fact sheets and regularly updated press and news stories.
Rainforest Foundation
The Rainforest Foundation is dedicated to protecting the rights of forest peoples and uses its Web site resources, which include news, events, publications, merchandise, and more to reflect this mission.
Rainforest Information Centre
This Web site contains hundreds of images of animals, plants, scenery and people from the Amazon rainforest in tropical South America. At the Rainforest Information Centre you can buy or rent videotapes on ecology, browse the maps and country profiles for several countries with tropical forests, and use the Children’s Forest Links page to find school project ideas and rainforest information.
Rainforest Live
Rainforest Live is an educational site for kids and teachers, who can navigate the site for kids activities, lesson plans, classroom ideas and more.
Rainforest Portal
The Rainforest Portal is an Internet search tool that provides access to reviewed rainforest conservation news, information retrieval tools, and original analysis and action opportunities.
Rainforest Artists
Rainforest Artists are individuals from all over the world who hope to raise awareness of rainforest destruction through their work.
Rainforest Web
This Web site is a World Rainforest Information Portal containing resources for such topics as biodiversity, plants and indigenous peoples.
Rainforests
Search this site for rainforest-related links, news, petitions, jobs and more.
Save the Rainforest
Save the Rainforest specializes in providing volunteer intern programs and tropical forest courses for students, educators and adults. Visit the site to learn how you can join.
Society of American Foresters
This Web site contains forestry, career center, education, national convention, periodicals, policy and press sections. A special members only section is also available.
Tropical Rainforest Coalition (TRC)
The Tropical Rainforest Coalition Web site showcases school fundraising projects and includes facts, FAQ’s, a photo gallery of bird photos, rainforest paintings and information on how you can support rainforest conservation.
World Rainforest Movement
The World Rainforest Movement highlights the state of tropical forests, the causes of deforestation, international processes, and the defenders of the forests. Relevant information and photos are searchable by country or subject, and the WRM bulletin is available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese versions.
World Wildlife Fund: The Amazon
This site is a portion of World Wildlife Fund’s Web site dedicated to the Amazon. Features include audio files of sounds of several animals of the Amazon and a picture slide show of the plants and animals that inhabit the Amazon rainforest region.
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