61. VirtualRainForest-an Online Tour An interactive online tour of the rainforests of Central and South America. It is excellent for school projects and is written for children. http://www.msu.edu/~urquhar5/tour/index.html

Welcome to the V i r t u a l R a i n F o r e s t You can choose between two online tours of the rainforest, filled with beautiful pictures and interesting facts. The Virtual Rainforest was designed for all ages, but with particular emphasis on teaching children about tropical rainforests. Designed by Dr. Gerald Urquhart, a tropical ecologist, the site is scientifically accurate and explores a wide variety of rainforest topics. Click below to start: The second option is a directed toura slide showleading you through the rainforest step by step. It runs a little faster than the VirtualRainforest and has some different information. Consumer Guide to Purchasing Tropical Wood Products Information for Teachers - Coming Soon! Feel free to use this site in any way you wish in your classroom. Please inform Dr. Gerald Urquhart of your school, location, grade, and intended use for our database. We are very interested in knowing which and how many schools are using this resource for their classroom activities.

62. Rain Forests--Plants/Human Body/Geography Lesson Plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySch lack of security or stability that threatens with danger. Context Many species have a precarious existence in the rainforests. http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/spiritsoftherainforest/

Grades K-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Astronomy/Space ... Health History Ancient History U.S. History World History Life Science Animals Ecology Human Body The Microscopic World ... Weather For our newsletter and special teacher promotions. 6-8 > Plants Grade level: 9-12 Subject: Plants Duration: Two class periods Objectives Materials Procedures Adaptations ... Credit Find a video description, video clip, and discussion questions. Spirits of the Rainforest Use our free online Teaching Tools to create custom worksheets, puzzles and quizzes on this topic! Students will understand the following: Scientists are conducting experiments to verify the powers attached to herbs and other plants by native peoples. A reader must evaluate the accuracy and biases of all so-called scientific studies, especially those reported only on the Web. For this lesson, you will need: Access to the Internet Discuss with students how they would go about using the Internet to find material about new or potential uses of plants as medicines. Where would they begin? By going straight to Web sites hosted by pharmaceutical companies? By doing keyword searches? You may have students proceed to follow their own instincts to locate sites and articles. Or to save time and focus students on the same sources, you may want to refer groups of students to the following three sites screened for this project:

63. Barnens Regnskog, Children's Rainforest Of Sweden Nonprofit association working to save the world's rainforests by buying the rainforest in order to save it. Provides project and sponsorship information. http://www.barnens-regnskog.net/

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64. Butterflies - El Bosque Nuevo - Costa Rica Organization using agroforestry to preserve tropical rainforests. Describes project of sustainably harvesting butterfly pupae for sale to conservatories with pictures and descriptions of many tropical butterfly species. http://www.elbosquenuevo.org/

Home: El Bosque Nuevo About El Bosque Nuevo Our Advisors Contact El Bosque Nuevo ... Version en Espanol About 14 million hectares of tropical rain forest have been lost each year-that's each year, every year-since 1980. El Bosque Nuevo is working hard to reverse this appalling trend. Our efforts prove that biology and economics can be combined in behalf of human and biological needs. Too often, they are represented as being at odds or at war. The value of tropical rain forests can't be calculated in dollars or measured in biological terms. Their value is priceless on one hand as well as beyond full understanding on the other but most experts can agree that losing rain forests to single-minded development is a devastating blight. The danger is, can humans survive if the rain forests don't? Rain forests are intimately bound up with the larger, subtle, absolutely vital rhythms and cycles of life on Planet Earth. They are as fundamental to our collective lives at this scale as cell division is to our individual lives at that scale. We cannot do without the unique range and depth of flora and fauna they nourish in their natural state. But that natural state is being torn apart by a short-term focus on profit that remains blind to the harmonious merging of economic desires with biological needs. There is a middle path that serves both priorities in a sustainable way. El Bosque Neuvo has found-and is moving with growing success up along-that ignored but sustainable "middle path."

65. Surfing The Net With Kids: Rainforests rainforests are defined and created by rainfall more than eighty inches per year. Tropical On the Line Tropical rainforests. Tropical http://www.surfnetkids.com/rainforest.htm

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66. Wings On Wheels Cycle remote beaches, rainforests and kayaking during an allinclusive cycle tour. Includes itinerary, what to bring, photos, registration and contact information. http://www.wingsonwheels.com/

Looking for something new and exciting in your travels? Wings On Wheels offers Canada’s newest most fulfilling cycle tour of the beautiful and isolated Queen Charlotte Islands. Experience peace of mind as lifelong adventurers Paddy and Carole bike you across the rugged terrain and the timeless beauty of Haida Gwaii. Experience the Islands on a low impact bike tour that takes you traveling through the native villages, along the panoramic beaches or kayaking along the beautiful unparalleled coastline. Enjoy the tour at a relaxed pace, giving you time to experience the rugged beauty that combines wildlife and native history. SLOW DOWN Dare to look closely . . . at nature, at your companions. You will be hiking and bicycling, not to test your physical limits, but to share those unforgettable moments that emerge unexpectedly out of the everyday. FEEL FREE Wings On Wheels will look after the logistics of life on the Islands, leaving you free to relax and enjoy perfect biking days. And if you get tired, our private van is there to help out. CALL US So we can custom design an all-inclusive cycling tour for your special interest group, your next family gathering or for your next holiday when you want to get away from it all.

67. Rainforests: A Virtual Tour This slide show is designed as an introduction to tropical rain forests and some of their most interesting inhabitants, including people, plants and wild http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/tour/rainforest.html

This slide show is designed as an introduction to tropical rain forests and some of their most interesting inhabitants, including people, plants and wild animals. It was designed for all ages, so some of the language is simple so that younger "travelers" can understand. To go through the tour, just click on the crocodile's head...

68. APFT Home Page Multidisciplinary project sponsored by the European Community which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. Involves over 30 researchers in the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific. Site is for the use of anthropologists and others to promote wider access to information concerning the earth's rainforests and its people. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/

Graphics APFT Members Text Only APFT is a multi-disciplinary project sponsored by the European Community (DG VIII) which aims to investigate and document the future of the peoples of the rainforest. The major input is from anthropologists. Started in 1995 the project runs for five years, and involves over 30 researchers EU and ACP (senior and trainee) in three principal areas: the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific. Contact: Enrico Pironio. Tel. Fax. Email: Enrico.Pironio@dg8.cec.be APFT APFT Bureau de Sensibilisation is strictly prohibited. Comments can be sent to APFT IT Co-ordinator APFT Website

69. Rainforest Biomes The soil can only be used for a very short time before it becomes completely depleted of all nutrients. Where the rainforests Are Found. *** rainforests http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm

T. Sibona. F.A.O Plants Animals Climate Southeast Asian Rainforests The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly. Rainforests now cover less than 6% of Earth's land surface. Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world's plant and animal species live in tropical rain forests. Tropical rainforests produce 40% of Earth's oxygen. A tropical rain forest has more kinds of trees than any other area in the world. Scientists have counted about 100 to 300 species in one 2 1/2-acre (1-hectare) area in South America. Seventy percent of the plants in the rainforest are trees. About 1/4 of all the medicines we use come from rainforest plants. Curare comes from a tropical vine, and is used as an anesthetic and to relax muscles during surgery. Quinine, from the cinchona tree, is used to treat malaria. A person with lymphocytic leukemia has a 99% chance that the disease will go into remission because of the rosy periwinkle. More than 1,400 varieties of tropical plants are thought to be potential cures for cancer. All tropical rain forests resemble one another in some ways. Many of the trees have straight trunks that don't branch out for 100 feet or more. There is no sense in growing branches below the canopy where there is little light. The majority of the trees have smooth, thin bark because there is no need to protect the them from water loss and freezing temperatures. It also makes it difficult for

70. KuKura Adventure Story - Organic Cotton Doll - Rainforest Trip - Eco News - Gree Online book explains why the rainforests are important. 56page book can also be downloaded and printed for offline reading. Site also includes Flash animated pages. http://greenkeepers.com/

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71. Science In The Rainforest: Native Peoples Of Tropical Rainforests Answers to Questions on Native Peoples of Tropical rainforests. Q WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? A Tropical rainforests are bursting with life. http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/native.html

Answers to Questions on Native Peoples of Tropical Rainforests WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? IN GENERAL, HOW DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LIVE? FOOD EDUCATION ... GLOSSARY Q: WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? A: Tropical rainforests are bursting with life. Not only do millions of species of plants and animals live in rainforests, but many people also call the rainforest their home. In fact, Indigenous, or native, people have lived in rainforests for thousands of years. In North and South America they were mistakenly named Indians by Christopher Columbus, who thought that he had landed in Indonesia, then called the East Indies. Q: IN GENERAL, HOW DO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LIVE? A: Although many Indigenous people live much like we do, some still live as their ancestors did many years before them. These groups organize their daily lives differently than our culture. Everything they need to survive, from food to medicines to clothing, comes from the forest. FOOD Besides hunting, gathering wild fruits and nuts and fishing, Indigenous people also plant small gardens for other sources of food, using a sustainable farming method called shifting cultivation. First they first clear a small area of land and burn it. Then they plant many types of plants, to be used for food and medicines. After a few years, the soil has become too poor to allow for more crops to grow and weeds start to take over. So they then move to a nearby uncleared area. This land is traditionally allowed to regrow for 10-50 years before it is farmed again.

72. Rainforest Relief Nonprofit dedicated to ending the destruction of the world's tropical and temperate rainforests. http://www.rainforestrelief.org/

Join Rainforest Relief Today Rainforest Relief needs your help in supporting the work we do to protect the rainforests and their inhabitants. Thank You! More Woods to Avoid and Alternatives Rainforest Relief's unique guide to avoiding wood from endangered rainforests, described and cross-referenced by species, by product, by company and by country. More Intern with Rainforest Relief’s ForestBanana™ Project BriBri indians bringing bananas across the BriBri River to send to market. Intern this summer with Rainforest Relief's ForestBanana™ Project in the Talamanca region of Costa Rica. More Restoration Hardware Restoration Hardware and other companies are selling furniture made from wood ripped from the highly endangered rainforests of Indonesia. More Stop the Importation of Endangered Species! Despite massive public opposition, the Bush administration is moving forward with a dramatic change to Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations that would allow commercial international trade in some of the world's most endangered species. More

73. Science In The Rainforest: Take A Walk In The Rainforest Tropical rainforests are home to 5090% of all the world s species of plants and animals. Most of the monkeys and apes in the world live in the rainforests. http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html

Take a Walk in the Rainforest A Self-guided Tour Tropical Rainforests are home to 50-90% of all the world's species of plants and animals. Rainforests provide us with oxygen, help maintain our climate and give us essential foods and medicines. Rainforests have intense tropical sunlight, high temperatures and virtually constant rainfall. This environment has enabled organisms to develop specialized adaptations to the environment and to each other. Over time, this specialization has promoted extraordinary biodiversity in the rainforest. Please follow this self-guided tour of some of the various plants and animals you would see as you take a walk through the rainforest. Begin your tour by selecting an arrow that interests you: Most of the monkeys and apes in the world live in the rainforests. Monkeys spend most of their time leaping around the trees of the the rainforests. Rainforests are also very busy at night when different animals, called nocturnal animals, wake up. Some of the sounds you would hear at night are frogs croaking,monkey hooting, and bats squeaking as they fly. Many different types of plants can be found in the rainforest. The plants live at different locations in the rainforest depending on their need for light and water.

74. EO Experiments: Rainforest Biome There are two types of rainforests, tropical and temperate....... Other There are two types of rainforests, tropical and temperate. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/biorainforest.html

Temperature: Precipitation: 2,000 to 10,000 millimeters of rain per year Vegetation: Vines, palm trees, orchids, ferns Location: Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn Other: There are two types of rainforests, tropical and temperate. Tropical rainforests are found closer to the equator and temperate rainforests are found farther north near coastal areas. The majority of common houseplants come from the rainforest. Example: Campa Pita, Belize Temperature graph: Click to enlarge Precipitation graph: Click to enlarge Location map: Click to enlarge Description: There are two types of rainforests, tropical and temperate. Tropical rainforests are found closer to the equator where it is warm. Temperate rainforests are found near the cooler coastal areas further north or south of the equator. Links: Biome: Tropical Rainforest The Rain Forest Rainforests of the World (A new browser window will open for each.) Did you link here from a mission? Return to Mission: Great Graph Match To Plant or Not to Plant?

75. Tangaloa.com Encourages people to protect rainforests by using Tangaloa hardwood, a quality replacement for rain forest and oldgrowth forest woods. http://www.tangaloa.com/

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76. EO Study: JASON XV - Rainforests At The Crossroads Wondrous in their diversity of species, prolific in their plant growth rates, rainforests are particularly important ecosystems. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/ICE/panama/panama.php

From January 26-February 6, 2004, an expedition of students, teachers, and scientists will visit Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to explore the rainforest there while the JASON network of classrooms all over the world participates remotely via televised broadcasts. (Visit the JASON Project Web site for details on the expedition and how you can participate. Please see Panama: Isthmus that Changed the World for details on the topography of Panama and how that landscape was formed. Also, a high-resolution QuickBird image of Barro Colorado Island is available.) Table of Contents Introduction Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 ... Credits Why study the rainforest? Though we often take the plants and trees around us for granted, almost every aspect of our lives depends upon them. They feed us, clothe us, absorb carbon dioxide, provide us with oxygen, and give us building materials and medications. Drastic changes to the vegetation around us affect our health, economy, and environment. Wondrous in their diversity of species, prolific in their plant growth rates, rainforests are particularly important ecosystems. Scientists observe that both natural climate changes and human activities are stressing tropical rainforests in some regions, and so scientists are collecting the data they need to predict how these important ecosystems will respond. Terra Aqua , and Landsat About 3 million years ago the Isthmus of Panama formed a land bridge between the continents of North and South America. Situated just north of the equator, Panama enjoys a warm climate year round and is mostly covered by lush tropical rainforests. Participants in the JASON XV expedition will visit Barro Colorado Island, which sits like an emerald jewel in the sapphire waters of Lake Gatun at the northern end of the Panama Canal. (SRTM image of Panama courtesy NASA/JPL/NIMA. High-resolution Quickbird image of Barro Colorado Island courtesy JASON Drake, University of Georgia.)

77. Inter-Lace : Rainforests us. Tropical rainforests Resource information from YES about the loss of rainforests. The rainforests in Australia. Minnamurra Rainforest http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey/rainforests.htm

Home Weblinks Search Search Tips ... Site Map 2004 VISITOR NUMBER s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) Rainforest Weblinks General Information Australian Information Rainforests in Australia Fun Stuff ... For Teachers General Information Zoom Rainforest Tropical Rainforest Cluster from the Science Museum of Minnesota Are there any tropical rainforests where I live? - Location of Rainforests in relation to the equator Passport to Knowledge - Live from the Rainforest Structure of the Rainforest (GEOsystem), Maps of Rainforest areas Rainforest Live Biomes of the World - Rainforest RAINFOREST INFORMATION CENTRE Background Information The World's Forests What's Left 1998; Rainforests of the World; The Causes of Rainforest Destruction ; Solutions to Rainforest Destruction ; Papua New Guinea: A Country Profile ; Indigenous Peoples of the Rainforest

78. ForestEthics : ForestEthics.org - Protection Of The World’s Endangered Forests Dedicated to protecting the ancient rainforests of British Columbia and endangered forests of North America by redirecting US markets toward ecologically sound alternatives. http://www.forestethics.org/

5/18/04: Environmental groups launch international campaign targeting paper and lumber products from Canada's Boreal Forest - - Office Depot Agrees to Endangered Forest and Recycling Policy - Environmental Campaign Against the Company Ends The environmental campaign against Office Depot is over following the company's announcement of a revised environmental policy that meets The Paper Campaign's demands ... ... ... 5/3/04 - Catalog Industry Targeted for Destroying Endangered Forests at Annual Catalog Conference 3/24/4: Wall Street Journal - Environment Groups To End Campaign Vs Office Depot wall street journal article on office depot victory 3/22/4:Top Catalogs Branded as Endangered Forest Destroyers Lands' End/Sears, LL Bean, Williams-Sonoma/Pottery Barn, Limited/Victoria's Secret, J Crew, and JC Penney named as leading targets for the next phase of ForestEthics' Paper Campaign.... contact us site index

79. 300 Rainforest Links http//www.mongabay.com/home.htm A place out of time. Tropical rainforests and the perils they face. A site providing information on tropical rain forests. http://www.mysteries-megasite.com/main/bigsearch/rain-1.html

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80. Naples Botanical Garden Showcases an extensive collection of subtropical and tropical plants from around the world ranging from deserts to rainforests. http://www.naplesbotanicalgarden.org

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