Tropical Rain Forests

Annotated List by Deborah De La Rosa

Live From The Rain Forest provides the user with the opportunity to explore this tropical wonderland with the world's leading biologists via a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on science activites (http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html).

Missouri Botancal Garden Exploring the Tropics site has 14 links to articles that provide information on topics such as destruction of the rain forest, climate and vegetation, adaption, forest layers and economic plants of theTropics (http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/education/tropics/).

Moran, E (1997-1998) The Law, Politics, and Economics of Amazonian Deforesation. Global Legal Studies Journal. Retrieved January 24, 2000 from the World Wide Web:http://environment.about.com/culture/environment/msubfor4.htm). The is an indepth look at the many diverse issues that contribute to the deforestation of the Amazon.

Myst@Rain Forests includes a link to a web ring and basic facts on rain forests including why they are being destroyed and the ways one can become involved in protecting and maintaining the rain forests (http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/1009/main.htm).

Rain Forests-MSN Encarta is a comprehensive site that includes related articles on the topic of rain forests, interviews with rain forest experts, deforestation, and game and quizzes to test your knowledge of rain forests (http://encarta.msn.com/events/earthday/rainforest/rainforest.shtm).

Reply to Ask-An-Earth_Scientist page asks the question, "What are the major reasons for the destruction of the rainforests and what people's lives their are hurt by this?" and a professor from the Universtiy of Hawaii's Department of Geology and Geophysics offers his insight (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/rainforest.html).

Revington, J.(1990) The Causes of Tropical Deforestation. New Renassiance, Vol. 3, No. 2. Retrieved January 24, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://environment.about.com/culture/environment/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm This article looks at the various practices, both economically and social, that have led to the destruction of the tropical rain forest.

Roberts, W.R., Roper, J (1999) Forestry Issues Deforestation: Tropical Rain Forests in Decline CFAN . Retrieved January 25, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://environment.about.com/culture/environment/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm This paper examines the extent of tropical deforestation in developing countries, its causes and consequences, and the prospects for more sustainable land use alternatives.

Saving the Amazon is a site devoted to the work of WWF, an organization working on the ground to protect the Amazon River Basin since 1968 (http://worldwildlife.org/amazon/).

Smithsonian Tropical Reserach Institute Education and Visitors Services site discusses the use of construction tower cranes in tropical dry and wet forests and how they provide access to the uppermost layers of the forest, largely inaccessible until the Smithsonian and the United Nations Environment Program joined forces to pioneer the use of these cranes in the forest (http://www.si.edu/organiza/centers/stri/).

TRFIC, the Tropical Rain Forest Information Center located at Michigan State University includes basic facts on the rain forests such as deforestation, country by country statistics and detailed studies of different rain forests (http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/rfrc/rfrc.html).

Take a Walk in a Rain Forest Take a Walk in a Rainforest is a self-guided tour for the individual to learn about the plants and animals that live and thrive in the Costa Rica rain forest (http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/rainwalk.html).

The Rain Forest Action Alert The World Rainforest Movement site represents a global network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them (http://environment.about.com/culture/environment/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm).

The Rainforest Alliance website is about the international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests for the benefit of the global community (http://environment.about.com/culture/environment/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm).

The World Rainforest Movement site represents a global network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests against the forces that destroy them (http://environment.about.com/culture/environment/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm).

Welcome to the Wealth of the Rain Forest Pharmacy to the World is an excellent site that focuses on the medicinal value of the rain forest's flora and fauna and includes links to a rain forest plant database and a list of sustainable rain forest products (http://rain-tree.com/).