Welcome to the web links page for The Rainforest, one of REMedia'sZoology Guides series of CD-ROM disks. The links shown below are arranged according to the chapters of the CD-ROM. We suggest that you bookmark this page so that you can return here to explore further links relating to rainforests and their biology.
Gaia Forest Archives
These archives contain extensive information on the world's rainforests.
Rainforest Action Network
The Rainforest Action Network is mentioned extensively in the CD-ROM. The RAN web site is well worth a visit, and has detailed and up to date information on the importance of the rainforests of the world and the rate of their destruction.
Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests for the benefit of the global community. Their mission is to develop and promote economically viable and socially desirable alternatives to the destruction of this endangered, biologically diverse natural resource. They pursue this mission through education, research in the social and natural sciences, and the establishment of cooperative partnerships with businesses, governments, and local peoples.
Kids Action
Part of the RAN site. This is a very practical area for children, esp. grades 4 and up. It includes a kids' art gallery, a question and answer section, and 8 steps to change the world. The graphics are excellent.
The Rainforest Network
This site has attractive graphics of animals and plants as well as useful lesson plans. Educational resources are also available.
Help Save the Rainforest homepage.
This site describes how a group of 4th graders set up activities to promote awareness and educate their peers and the community.
Global warming
Find out about global warming and the ozone layer
The rain cycle
Learn more about the rain cycle
Several companies are working to help the indigenous people of the rainforest grow sustainable resources.
The Body Shop
The Body Shop's body care products use many components sustainably extracted from the world's rainforests
Ben and Jerry's
Ben and Jerry's ice cream uses nuts sustainably extracted from the rainforests of South America.
Tropical Rainforest Coalition
The Tropical Rainforest Coalition works to preserve tropical rainforest ecosystems, their indigenous peoples and cultures at the local level through enabling volunteerism and through community education, and at the international level through technical and financial support for recognized organizations involved in the conservation of tropical rainforests.
Forest Action Network - campaigning to save the Great Bear Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest is a region of coastal temperate rainforest on the west coast of Canada, stretching up to the Alaskan border. It encompasses some 2.5 million hectares of pristine wilderness - ten times the size of Clayoquot Sound. The region is characterized by snow-capped mountains and steep, forested slopes descending through coastal fog into salmon filled fjords. There is great biological diversity, with grizzly and cougar roaming through ancient stands of Sitka spruce and red cedar.
The links in this section give information on particular rainforest regions. You can use the maps chapter of the Rainforest CD-ROM to study the regions described in these links.
Central America
A group of scientists visit the rainforests of Belize
Rainforests of Honduras and Costa Rica
This page contains information about these Central American rainforests
Amazon Basin
View the Amazin Basin from space
Ecuadorian Amazon (Amazon Interactive)
Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.
Rainforest tours/courses
Save the Rainforest - STR is a nonprofit organization that specializes in conducting rainforest tours/courses for teachers and students. They also produce rainforest curriculums, videos and posters, and involve schools in conservation projects in the tropics.
Belize & Honduras: Rainforest/Coral Reef/Mayan Ruins
Panama: Rainforest/Coral Reef/Indigenous People
Costa Rica & Ecuador: Rainforest/Mountains/Indigenous People
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Information on organizations working to help indigenous people of the world.
Rubber tappers and Chico Mendes
Information on the sad story of Chico Mendes and his fight to preserve the rights of the Amazon people.
Art of indigenous people of the Amazon
Surinam
Pictures of indigenous people of Surinam
Music from the rainforest
Deep Forest
Songs of the Central African pygmies
Macaw Landing Foundation
Loads of info on Macaws and other rainforest birds
Information about rainforest birds
http://www.lpzoo.com/animals/birds/birdlist.html
Amphibians of the rainforests
This site has some useful information about the frogs and other anphibians of the world's rainforests.
Animals of the Rainforest Reptile Section
Rainforest seeds
You can grow rainforest plants at school or home! Seeds of the RainForest products are gathered, primarily, from a 1500-acre virgin rainforest which was saved from logging some 15 years ago. The seeds are collected from harvest sites tended to by extended families. These families work together to collect and clean the seeds in a safe and sustainable manner. About 100 species are listed for $1.50 each packet.