21. The Living Rainforest Worldwide, the greatest loss of rainforests has been due to the clearing of land for agriculture. What can we all do about this? http://www.livingrainforest.org/about

Home Visitor Information About our Charity Explore ... Contact Us Information for: Families Teachers Groups Explore ... Cultures Free e-mail newsletter The Living Rainforest Explore Explore The Pet Trade The capture and sale of animals from tropical forests is thought to be the second biggest cause of species loss. We find out what is fuelling this trade and what can be done to limit the damage it causes. Chocolate: a sweet cure? Could eating chocolate each day keep the doctor away? An ancient remedy known to the Aztecs, chocolate is known to reduce blood cholesterol and help prevent heart disease - and the darker the chocolate the better! Mystery potions from the angel's trumpet Extracts from the angel's trumpet ( Brugmansia ) have long been used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams. Western science has recently identified the alkaloid responsible for causing the hallucinations. The giant millipede Lemurs in Madagascar and capuchin monkeys in Venezuela have been observed using powerful defensive secretions from giant millipedes to control insect pests and even send themselves on a drug-induced 'high'. Cash Crops Worldwide, the greatest loss of rainforests has been due to the clearing of land for agriculture. What can we all do about this?

22. Save The Rainforest Save The Rainforest Help stop rainforest destruction. Learn ways you can help save tropical rainforests. http://www.savetherainforest.org/

Home There are two types of rainforests, based on their location on the planet, tropical and temperate .Both are endangered ecosystems. Read about the differences. Help Save The Rainforest Rainforest Animals Rainforest Plantlife As Stewards Of This Planet Global Care Believes It Is Everyones Responsibility To Help The Less Fortunate. For more information visit Global Care Causes of Rainforest Destruction Facts About The Rainforest Take The Quiz ... Save The Rincon Why does burning of tropical rainforest lead to global warming but burning an equivalent amount (mass) of corn stalks does not? Click on destroying the ozone Tropical Rainforest View Guestbook Sign Guestbook Take a virtual tour of the rainforest. Created by Gerald Urquhart Ph.D., Michigan State University On a recent trip to the Caribbean I had the pleasure to visit El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico and the Grand Etang National Park rainforest in Grenada. Help Spread The Word About SaveTheRainforest.org Did you find this site a good resource.If so we would greatly appreciate it if you could send us a link from your homepage or website. We often get asked if there is anything you can do to help save the rainforest. Adding a link to us would help spread the word about how to Save The Rainforest. Send the link to our homepage at www.savetherainforest.org

23. The Fate Of The Rainforests Welcome to the world of the tropical rainforest, teeming with rare species of animals and plants that exist nowhere else on earth. http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/Rainforests/

The Fate of the Rainforests Developed by Debbie Bullock Janice Griffin and Pamela King Picture yourself Overview Introduction Quest(ions) Process ... Conclusion Overview This lesson is about the challenges for the survival of the rainforests. This unit is designed for upper elementary and is appropriate for use by science, social studies and math teachers. In addition to web sites included in this unit, a bibliography is located at the end of this project listing print, audio, and video resources. Click here for specific strands and objectives from the South Carolina Curriculum Standards that are addressed in this webquest. Overview Introduction Quest(ions) Process ... Conclusion Introduction Welcome to the world of the tropical rainforest, teeming with rare species of animals and plants that exist nowhere else on earth. Located between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, rainforests are characterized by hot, humid weather all year long, which creates an environment conducive to an abundance of growth. Hundreds of years ago, tropical rainforests encircled the globe, much like long green arms, hugging the equator and covering 20% of the earth's land surface. Reduced to a mere 6%, the diminishing rainforest shelters more than half of all the plant and animal species living in the world today. Rapid deforestation has endangered the splendor of this tropical paradise.

24. Rainforests Toucan Sam s Encyclopedia of the Rain Forest join Toucan Sam as he takes you on a trip through a rainforest, explaining what it is, who lives there, http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/TECH/subject/science/rainforests.html

Rainforests Animals Individual Animal Pages Animals Of The Rainforest - images and facts on Rainforest animals presented by students of Midlakes Middle School in Fairport, NY. Tropical Rainforest Animals from the Multimedia Animals Encyclopedia Rainforest Biome - From the Cyberzoo. Short list of animals from the rain forest. Rainforest Projects Rainforest Projects Student created pages from Jeffrey Elementary School in Madison, CT. Plants Strata of the Rainforest Look at the "layers" of the rainforest. Tropical Rainforest Plants Venus Fly Trap Rubber Trees Rubber Tree Tappers Lesson Plans The Rain Forest This site has lesson plans and activities for rain forest studies by grade level. These categories are available: Science Through Art, Interactive Science Activity , Outdoor Activity , and In-Class Demonstration General Rainforest Biome Pages Toucan Sam's Encyclopedia of the Rain Forest - join Toucan Sam as he takes you on a trip through a rainforest, explaining what it is, who lives there, what kinds of plants you can find, and more.

25. The Temperate Rain Forest Temperate rainforests have one long wet season and a fairly dry summer where fog The temperate rain forests of the Pacific Northwest developed where http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2001Outwest/PacificNaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/

The Land That Time Forgot The Temperate Rain Forest Photo © Olympic National Park Used With Permission Photo ©2001 O ld-growth forests are forests that have developed over long periods without catastrophic disturbances of either natural or human origin. Often referred to as "virgin forests." "Rain forest." The words conjure up images of exotic flowers, colorful birds, lush plant life, and high humidity. These ideas are true of the tropical rain forests of equatorial Central and South America. Few people, however, realize that a similar climate and circumstances exist in North America which has produced an area known as the temperate rain forest. The images one has of the tropical rain forest are also true of the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. The mild climate and location of the area have produced an ecosystem in which time passes very slowly. Trees in this forest grow to immense sizes and live incredibly long lives. The biomass of these forests, estimated to be between 500 and 2000 metric tons per hectare, exceeds that of the tropical rain forests. This factor also makes them valuable economically, and this has led to a reduction in their size. Tropical rain forests resemble most people's deas of a jungle with vines and climbing plants such as the strangler fig. The most common trees are broad leaf evergreens.

26. Earth Floor: Biomes The tropical rainforest is a hot, moist biome found near Earth s equator. The world s largest tropical rainforests are in South America, Africa, http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rforest.html

Skip Navigation Tropical Rainforest The tropical rainforest is a hot, moist biome found near Earth's equator. The world's largest tropical rainforests are in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Tropical rainforests receive from 60 to 160 inches of precipitation that is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. The combination of constant warmth and abundant moisture makes the tropical rainforest a suitable environment for many plants and animals. Tropical rainforests contain the greatest biodiversity in the world. Over 15 million species of plants and animals live within this biome. Photo Gayle W. Croft The hot and humid conditions make tropical rainforests an ideal environment for bacteria and other microorganisms. Because these organisms remain active throughout the year, they quickly decompose matter on the forest floor. In other biomes, such as the deciduous forest, the decomposition of leaf litter adds nutrients to the soil. But in the tropical rainforest, plants grow so fast that they rapidly consume the nutrients from the decomposed leaf litter. As a result, most of the nutrients are contained in the trees and other plants rather than in the soil. Most nutrients that are absorbed into the soil are leached out by the abundant rainfall, which leaves the soil infertile and acidic.

27. World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests Of Australia In 1986, a number of rainforest reserves located on the Great Escarpment of eastern New South Wales, known as the Australian East Coast Subtropical and http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/worldheritage/sites/cerra/index.html

28. America's Rainforests Rain forests provide a haven for the largest diversity of plants and animals on Earth. Join US Forest Service experts, scientists, researchers, and students http://rainforests.pwnet.org/

America's Rain Forests A Distance Learning Adventure H ome P rogram Description ... ersion Rain forests provide a haven for the largest diversity of plants and animals on Earth. Join US Forest Service experts, scientists, researchers, and students and explore the tropical rain forest in the Caribbean National Forest in Puerto Rico and the temperate rain forest in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. "America's Rain Forests: An Electronic Field Trip" was broadcast live on October 14. You may watch an archived file of the electronic field trip as a webcast at any time by clicking on the links below. For those with a dail-up connection, CLICK HERE For those with a broadband connection, CLICK HERE If you have a super high-speed broadband Internet connection of at least 700 Kbps, CLICK HERE for a webcast with high resolution. Webcast of America’s Rain Forests: An Introduction A webcast of America’s Rain Forests: An Introduction is available at http://rainforests.pwnet.org/program/taped_program.php To Purchase Videotape or DVD If you would like a copy of America’s Rain Forests: An Introduction and/or America’s Rain Forests: Live Electronic Field Trip , you may order a DVD or videotape. Please send a check or purchase order for $27 each (which includes shipping and handling charges) to:

29. Rainforest Types Of The Central Eastern Rainforests Of Australia (CERA), New Sou s of the rainforest types found in the CERRA World Heritage and national parks of NSW and Southern Queensland, Australia....... http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/natural/rftypes.htm

Descriptions of the rainforest types found in the CERRA World Heritage National Parks of NSW and Southern Queensland, Australia. Holiday Guide Rainforest Types of CERRA Descriptions of the rainforest types found in the CERRA World Heritage National Parks of New South Wales and South East Queensland, Australia. Subtropical Rainforest Littoral Rainforest Dry Rainforest Warm Temperate Rainforest ... Other Rainforest Links Natural History Natural History Index CERRA World Heritage Information Network Other Rainforest Links: Legend: (Ac = Academic, T = Teacher, yk-12 = student grade, G = General.) Hint: use your right mouse button to open a new window to external sites. Big Volcano Pages Regional Map - Big Volcano (G) Introduction to CERRA - Big Volcano (G) National Parks (G) Australian Sites A closer look at Rainforests - NSW Dept Primary Industries (G) Rainforests - by Bilambil Public Primary School Ecology and Management Research Reports - Tropical Rainforest CRC (Ac,T, y11-12)

30. Gondwana Rainforests Of Australia - UNESCO World Heritage Centre The outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic craters and the high number of rare and threatened rainforest species are of http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/368

jump to the content UNESCO.org Education Natural Sciences ... Success Stories Login Forgot your password? Not a member yet? Join 59213 others free The List ... RSS Add Photo Gondwana Rainforests of Australia Advanced search Select by category Cultural Mixed Natural all Select by media Sites with videos Sites with animations Sites with photo gallery Choose a Region Africa Arab States Asia and the Pacific Europe and North America Latin America and the Caribbean Display all by Country Region Year Name of the property Danger Site: Transboundary Site: Nomination file: Nomination file accessible to the public Cultural Criteria: i ii iii iv v vi Natural Criteria: vii viii ix x Criteria: with only with Australia Date of Inscription: Extension: Criteria: (viii)(ix)(x) Core zone: 370000 ha States of New South Wales and Queensland Ref: Description Locations Documents Gallery Brief Description This site, comprising several protected areas, is situated predominantly along the Great Escarpment on Australia’s east coast. The outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic craters and the high number of rare and threatened rainforest species are of international significance for science and conservation.

31. Canadian Rainforests - Clearcutting Continues: 2004 Report From The David Suzuki Environmentally responsible alternatives exist. It s time to implement them. View site low bandwidth. http://www.canadianrainforests.org/

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32. Tropical Rainforests Theme Page The primary focus of the Community Learning Network (CLN) is to help K12 teachers integrate Information Technology into their classrooms. http://www.cln.org/themes/tropical_rainforests.html

Tropical Rainforests Theme Page This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of Tropical Rainforests. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our Animal Awareness A lesson plan designed for intermediate to junior high students. Students research a rainforest animal and present a report to classmates. Animals of the Tropical Rainforest In this webquest activity, primary students have the task of finding out more about 5 animals from the rainforest, drawing one of the animals, finding and taping animal sounds, and learning more on what can be done to protect the rainforest. Biome Investigation Using picture/graphical resources on the Internet as starting points, intermediate students investigate the six biomes of the world in this lesson plan. Two specific objectives are to describe the major factors that shape biomes and to represent the connections between the factors that determine biome development and plant and animal life. Chocolate Fun A lesson plan that has students make hot chocolate with different brands and test the pH levels. Information and links are to resources about the rainforest cacao plant.

33. Rainforests Magazine - Wildlife, People, Envoronment And Travel further editions of rainforests until further notice. The first two editions are now Sold Out. Nature Alert is an all voluntary nonprofit company (Reg. http://www.naturealert.org/

Welcome to Nature Alert Would you like up to the minute news on orangutans? Then please click on http://naturealert.blogspot.com/ But please do also read on down this page and do whatever you feel you personally can to help orangutans. When you read the Blog mentioned above and the news on this page, you will see how together, if we each do a little - it does make a big difference. Thank you for caring. 10,000 ORANGUTANS THE COST OF PALM OIL IS RISING Please click here to download this report (2.2MB) WILL YOU PLEASE HELP THE ORANGUTANS? Annoyed? Angry? Then why not ask us for these postcards? This way you can make your views known to these people. Everyone who sends these postcards will be letting these people know NOW If you would like these cards to send please let us know how many of each (there are two sets of four cards) you would like and send your name and address to sw@naturealert.org If you live in the UK, and become part of the solution. Everyone who sends these postcards will be letting these larger companies know you no longer want your food at the cost of orangutans being killed and rainforests destroyed.

34. Climate Change May Help Rainforests - Times Online Sep 21, 2007 Ten predictions about climate change that have come true An ex. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2500311.ece

Classic comedy Two for one cinema tickets. Book now for Blazing Saddles, showing next Monday Navigation - link to other main sections from here Skip Navigation A lack of sick notes underlines the England players' respect for Capello Matt Dickinson Send your views News Comment Business ... Topics Where am I? Home News World News SHOP ... Sitemap From The Times September 21, 2007 Climate change may help rainforests Ten predictions about climate change that have come true An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change Climate change may lead to lush growth rather than catastrophic tree loss in the Amazonian forests, researchers from the US and Brazil have found. A study, in the journal Science, found that reduced rainfall had led to greener forests, possibly because sunlight levels are higher when there are fewer rainclouds. But scientists cautioned that while the finding raises hopes for the survival of the forests, there are still serious threats. Climate models have suggested that the forests will suffer as the region becomes drier and will release huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Climate models have suggested in the past that the Amazon will suffer enormous die-backs as the region becomes drier and will release huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

35. Australian Rainforest Ecosystem Australian rainforest ecosystem, rainforests, jungle, trees, rainfall, highrainfall,, environmental video Television programs, wildlife, natural history http://www.gullivermedia.com.au/rainf.html

This page is an extract of a script that is part of the video series "The Living Landscape-an Australian Ecosystems Series". Visit all ecosystems. RAINFORESTS Did you know the Strangler Fig is one of the best known of all rainforest plants. It actually grows around another tree - and may eventually kill its host. A FEMALE FIG-BIRD FEASTS ON RAINFOREST FIGS A strangler fig starts to grow when a bird or possum dropping, containing the strangler fig seed, lodges somewhere high in the host tree. If nutrients, water and sunlight are present, the seed germinates and soon sends long, thin roots down the trunk of the host tree to the forest floor. Once the roots reach the nutrient-rich leaf litter below, the strangler fig grows quickly. A network of roots envelops the host, and up in the canopy, the strangler fig begins to compete with the host tree for the precious light. In time, the strangler fig can grow to over 45 metres, and the host tree can be overwhelmed, and die. LARGE UPRIGHT LEAVES OF THE 'BIRD-NEST' FERN The bird's nest fern is another plant that attaches itself to a host, though, unlike the strangler fig, it doesn't present a threat to its host. The bird's nest fern is an epiphyte, a plant that grows on another plant, or a rockface, or even a solid enough vine, without taking nutrients from its host.

36. Inforain: The Rainforests Of Home The Rain Forests of Home An Atlas of People and Place was originally published in 1995 by Ecotrust, Pacific GIS, and Conservation International. http://www.inforain.org/rainforestatlas/

RESEARCH INTERACTIVE MAPS MAP ARCHIVE The Rain Forests of Home: An Atlas of People and Place Page 1: Coastal Temperate Rain Forests Page 2: The Rain Forests of Home, A Review of the Research Page 3: First Nations of the Coastal Temperate Rain Forest Page 4: Original Distribution, Current Forest Status Page 5: Watershed Condition, The Research Challenge ... PDF file ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Rain Forests of Home: An Atlas of People and Place was originally published in 1995 by Ecotrust, Pacific GIS, and Conservation International. Edward C. Wolf, Andrew P. Mitchell, and Peter K. Schoonmaker, Ph.D. wrote sections of the report, and maps and technical analyses were completed by Andrew Mitchell, Randall Hagenstein, Lisa Lackey and Marko Muellner, with research assistance by Silas Beebe. The Prospect Hill Foundation and Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust provided project funding for the atlas, and Sun Microsystems, CalComp, Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard, and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., donated hardware and software that made the project possible. Foreword The south-to-north sweep of the western industrial economy that followed settlement has diminished both indigenous cultural and ecological integrity. Languages, art, and an irreplaceable legacy of cultural knowledge of the environment have been lost as fast or faster than plant and animal species. Today both Native and non-Native coastal communities, and the ecosystems that sustain them, face new challenges. The relationship between people and place, once synergistic, is now at risk.

37. ScienceNOW -- Sign In Apr 23, 2007 One of Earth s first rainforests has been found in an Illinois coal mine, where an earthquake entombed it 300 million years ago. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/423/1

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38. Australian Tropical Rain Forests Home Page Australian tropical rain forests. General Information on Australian Tropical Rain Forests Information on the Australian Tropical Rain Forest key http://www.latrobe.edu.au/botany/rainforests/

Global Utilities Skip to content Site map Search: Global Navigation La Trobe Home About La Trobe Courses Campuses ... Contacts Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants Home Page Welcome to the Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants home page. This page is currently under development. All suggestions are welcome. This page is designed to carry information about Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants. In particular, it will carry information on the various projects on plant taxonomy and biogeography being undertaken at La Trobe University and the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research , many of which are included within the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management ( Rainforest CRC ). These projects include the development of interactive keys to Australian tropical rain forest plants, the study of plant biogeography in Australian tropical rain forests, and the development of an online web site for Australian tropical rain forest plants. Australian tropical rain forests General Information on Australian Tropical Rain Forests Information on the Australian Tropical Rain Forest key Information on biogeography Families and genera of rain forest plants Links Department of Botany home page La Trobe University home page Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research home page CSIRO Tropical Forest Research Centre home page ... CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management This page is maintained by

39. ENN: How To Save The Rainforests While we have fixated on our little local worries over the past week, the biggest news story of the year passed unnoticed in the night. http://www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/31893

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40. CBBC Newsround | QUIZ | Quiz: Rainforests rainforests are full of life, how many species might you find in just one square kilometre of Each year we cut down an area of rainforest the size of http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_3544000/3544401.stm

Home TV Radio Talk ... Teachers Quiz: Rainforests Updated 08 March 2004, 17.26 More Info Fave foods 'threaten rainforests' What is global warming? SOS Emazonia Global and environmental issues Question 1 How many species become extinct every day in the world’s tropical rainforests? Question 2 Rainforests are full of life, how many species might you find in just one square kilometre of forest? Question 3 The forests have been around for a long time, some are as old as: Question 4 Plants from the rainforest have helped us treat: Question 5 How tall do trees grow in the rainforest? Question 6 Traditional rainforest hunters use blow pipes and poison tipped darts. Where do they get the poison from? Question 7 When trees are cut down to grow crops it’s called: Question 8 Each year we cut down an area of rainforest the size of: Press the button and see how you have done E-mail this page to a friend Full Quiz Section Also in Quiz now: Today's quickfire quiz Fireworks George W Bush Check out our cool REVIEW section Who were the winners at the 2004 Q Awards? Catch up on the latest Celeb Gossip!

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