~ Rainforests ~

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World Rainforest Information Portal - Amazon, South America, Asia
Rainforest Action Network presents this directory. Learn about the
people, animals and plants living in the rainforest and protection efforts.
http://www.rainforestweb.org/

Forest Conservation Portal -- Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity ... 
Vast Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News & Information
-- Forest Conservation Portal http://forests.org/

Rainforest Action Network 
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests
and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots
organizing, and non-violent direct action. http://www.ran.org/

The Rainforest Alliance Home Page 
The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization dedicated
to the conservation of tropical forests. Our mission is to develop and
promote economically viable and socially desirable alternatives to
rainforest destruction through...http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/

Animals Of The Rainforests 
Gawk at these large color photos of some of the inhabitants of the
rainforest. Read about their diets, enemies, and self protection
techniques.  http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/

Tropical Rain Forest 
Read of the growth forms and layers of life found in tropical rain forests.
Lists common characteristics of tropical trees. http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/rainforest/rainfrst.html  

Tropical Rain Forest Information Center (TRFIC) 
The Tropical Rain Forest Information Center at Michigan State University
is a NASA Earth Science Information Partner (ESIP). Our mission is to
provide NASA data, products and information services to the science,
resource management http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/trfic/

Rainforest animals: Zoom Rainforests 
A sampling of rainforest animals.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/animals/Rfbiomeanimals.shtml  

Why Save the Rain Forest? 
Student guide to the rainforest, its animals and plants, and the factors
destroying it. Find a list of books and learning activities.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/class/edis/590s4/Snead/RAIN_F~1.HTM 

Rainforests of the World
http://www.pineriver.k12.mi.us/ms/rainforest/rainforest.html

Conservation and Endangered Species:Ecosystems and Habitats: Forests
A list of useful links http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Environment/Conservation_and_Endangered_Species/Ecosystems_and_Habitats/Forests/

Native Forest Network - International Forest Protection - Environmental Group
The Native Forest Network is a global autonomous collective seeking to protect forests
http://www.nativeforest.org/home.html  

Constraints on Private Conservation: Some Challenges in Managing Australias Tropical ...
Apr 2002 Some Challenges in Managing Australias Tropical Rainforests Updated: Wednesday, 21-Nov...Conservation: Some Challenges in Managing Australias Tropical Rainforests Conference Paper  http://www.pc.gov.au/research/confproc/rainforests/index.html 

Rainforests of Northern Australia
Apr 2002 In one of the world s most remarkable rainforests, you can identify how fragmentation... http://www.earthwatch.org/expeditions/westcott.html 

Tropical Rainforests Theme Page
May 2002...status for tribal groups who live in the rainforests of Malaysia, Brazil, Australia, Africa and Columbia. Rainforests. http://www.cln.org/themes/tropical_rainforests.html 

Where are the Rainforests?
Apr 2002...TOP SOUTHERN ASIA The rainforests of Asia stretch from India and Burma in the west to Malaysia...Millions of years ago, Australia, New Zealand and the...nowhere else. Undergrowth in Australia's tropical forests is... http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/where.html 

Rainforests
Dec 2001 Perth, Western Australia Rainforests  http://www.students.trinity.wa.edu.au/library/subjects/sose/geography/ecosystem/rainforests.htm 

Central Eastern RainforestsThe Central Eastern Rainforests Reserves (
Oct 2000...of 366 507ha; 59 223ha is in Queensland. The Central Eastern Rainforests Reserves (Australia) World Heritage area meets...probably the most extensive rainforests in Australia. Today, Lamington National... http://www.env.qld.gov.au/environment/park/heritage/cer.html 

Scotch College: Junior School - Rainforests
Jan 2002...floor of tropical rainforests. TITLE: Cape Tribulation...Tribulation, Queensland, Australia DATE: Not given Describes the rainforest in this area, issues that effect rainforests. http://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/Adminjs/curric/Links/linfiles/rainfore.htm 

Scotch College Senior Library - Rainforests
Rob Cleary, Feb 2002 Rainforest Australia Images and information...plants and animals in Northern Qld rainforests.Rainforest ecology...forms supported in each strata.Types of rainforests List of links...From Environment Australia and the State... http://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/Library/infores/intsites/subjects/geog/rainfor.htm  

Types of Rainforests
Feb 2001...third of the world's tropical rainforests are in Brazil. Other tropical rainforests...coastal strips with temperate rainforests, to include small areas in southern Australia  http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/types.htm 

Rainforests
...struggle to save the sub-tropical rainforests of New South Wales, Australia in the early 1980s. Since then...millions of plants and animals. Rainforests are extremely important in the ecology of the Earth. http://www.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/depts/edu/textbooks/rainforests.html 

Top web sites for Science Environment Forests and Rainforests plus books, news, mp3 f...
Apr 2002...of biodiversity and endangered species in the temperate rainforests of British Columbia, Canada. FAO Forestry...manages high-conservation private land in Australia as community-based conservation efforts... http://biology.searchwho.com/archive/catalog.html/Science/Environment/Forests_and_Rainforests 

ELAN: jan98 : Rainforests are Eatrh's safeguard
Amazon rainforest indicates that trees in tropical rainforests there have ages ranging from 200 years...and safeguard your climate. His research in Australia suggests that, if it weren't for human... http://csf.colorado.edu/elan/jan98/0038.html

AUSTRALIAN RAINFORESTS BEGIN DYING IN DROUGHT.
Nov 2000 AUSTRALIAN RAINFORESTS BEGIN DYING IN DROUGHT. Large tracts of rainforest in Southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales are dying in the worst drought in Australia's European history. The absence of effective rain for eight months... http://xs2.greenpeace.org/~climate/database/records/zgpz0776.html