We've organized this link page for you to find information on the Raintree website as well as other websites on specific subjects about the rainforest that are commonly written about. If you want to use any of Raintree's images or graphics to jazz up your report, please follow the instructions located here. We also have some new animals posters HERE for you to print out and use!
What are
rainforests and why are they important:
Raintree's Rainforest Facts
Plant Based Drugs and Medicines
A Place Out of Time -
Tropical Rainforests: Their Wonders and the Perils They Face
Rainforest Fact sheets for kids
Rainforests of the World
Live from the Rainforest
Rainforest Education
Rainforest Information
A Student Guide To Tropical Forest Conservation
How Rainforests Work
More Rainforest Facts
History and description of the Amazon Rainforest
Tons of information and links from rainforestweb.org
Last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge (high school to college level)
Tropical Forests in Decline (high school/college level)
Current Events - what's happening now
World Rainforest News
News articles from Mongo Bay
News articles from Amazonia
Eco-News Index
Current Events and news articles
Newsroom from Rainforest Action Network
Current Action Alerts
News stories and Current Events from Rainforestweb.org
WRI Newsroom
Maps of the Rainforest
Rainforests in the World 1 Rainforests in the World 2
Amazon Map
Animated map showing global forest loss (click on area for more detailed country map)
Detailed Amazon rainforest destruction maps and information
South American Rainforest Map
Global forest distribution maps
Brazilian Amazon Map
Interactive map of South America
Amazon rainforest
map
Rainforests in Brazil Central America Africa Australia SE Asia
Links to more maps
Images and Pictures of the Rainforest:
Raintree's Photo Gallery
Pictures of trees, flowers and plants found in the rainforest
Animal Posters to print out
Raintree director, Leslie Taylor's Homepage
JunglePhotos.com
Has hundreds of hi-resolution images of animals, plants, scenery and people from natural areas in the tropics in South America you can use for school reports and websites.
Deep Green Photography Website from photographer Greg Basco
Statistics and facts on destruction rates:
Great synopsis - High School Level
From Rainforest Action Network
Statistics in the Brazilian amazon
Destruction of the Amazon with updated statistics and causes
History of Forest Destruction, past and present
Rainforest destruction charts and graphs
Causes of rainforest destruction:
Deforestation in the Amazon 2004
Money in the Rainforest
Overall Causes of deforestation
Causes of deforestation (high school and college level)
Mining
Mining
Dams and Super Projects
Logging
Logging
Squatters and Settlers
Oil and Gas Exploration
The Hamburger Connection - Cheap beef
Fires
Agricultural plantations
Mangroves and shrimp farming
Underlying and Indirect causes
Summary of causes by Raintree
Summary of causes
Results of Rainforest destruction - Why it's bad:
Species Extinction:
General Data
Species Extinction Database
All about endangered species
Detailed info by animal species
Endangered Animal Species (Look up by country)
Consequences of deforestation
State of the Planet (facts and figures from 2000)
World Conservation Monitoring Center
Loss of future medicines
Worldwide Threatened Plants Database
Climate changes:
Rainforests and global warming
Solutions to rainforest destruction:
The 500 year plan
Sustainable Agriculture
Eco-Agriculture
Sustainable Forestry
Alternatives: Sustainable Development
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm#solutions
Article: SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION
Profits without Plunder
Legal reform and law enforcement
Sustainable Rainforest Products
Addressing the issues of destruction
Ecotourism
Develop sustainable alternatives
Animals in the rainforest:
The facts about rainforest animals
Animal Posters to print out and use
Questions & Answers about Rainforest Animals
Rainforest Animals
Rainforest Animals from Zoom
Links to more rainforest animals
Rainforest animal pictures
Plants of the rainforest:
Raintree's Rainforest Plant Database
Pictures of trees, flowers and plants found in the rainforest
Indigenous People and Indian Tribes of the Rainforest:
Best Site with detailed information on Indian Tribes in the Brazilian Amazon
Amazon-Indians.org has photos and videos of indigenous tribes of the Amazon.
Directory of Brazilian Indian Tribes
All About the Matese Tribe and how they live
All About the Bororo Indian Tribe and how they live
All about the Arara Indian Tribe and how they live
All about the Ava Canoeiro Indian Tribe and how they live
All about the Kanoe Indian Tribe
All about the Tembé Indian Tribe
All about the Kayapo Indian Tribe
All about the Arawete Indian Tribe
All about the Aparai Indian Tribe
All about the Suya Indian Tribe
All about the Xambioá Indian Tribe
Learn about the Wari Indians in Brazil and how they live.
Learn about the Korubo Indians in Brazil - a tribe only recently contacted
Indigenous People of the Rainforest Worldwide
What you can do to help
Link page for what you can do to help from rainforestweb.org
Action Alerts on how to help
Letter writing campaigns
Environmental Volunteer and Research Opportunities
Solutions from Greenpeace
Seven things you can do today
10 things kids can do
Stuff you can do today
Adopt a Rainforest
Become a Volunteer
What you can do links
Make your voice heard.
Things to do to protect the forests in your own backyard.
