Recommended Websites

National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
The National Geographic Society offers two websites that provide background information on tropical forests in various parts of the world.

Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org
“Since it was founded in 1985, the Rainforest Action Network has been working to protect tropical rainforests and the human rights of those living in and around those forests.”

Rainforest Connection
http://rainforest.montclair.edu/
This website hosted by Montclair State University’s Professional Resources in Science and Mathematics [PRISM] grew out of a program that linked schools in New Jersey with scientists working at STRI’s research station on Barro Colorado Island. This site is filled with fascinating communications between researchers and students that provide great detail on the experience of working on the island. There are essays from researchers on the animals that live on Barro Colorado.

Rainforest Links [compiled by Jackie Miers]
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/rainforest/links.html
Provides numerous links to: General Information, General information, Location of rainforests, Strata of the rainforest, Animals of the rainforest, Plants of the rainforest, People of the rainforest, Destruction of rainforests, Saving the rainforests, Student work, Drawing rainforest animals, Activities, games and puzzles, and Graphics.

The Rainforest Site
http://www.therainforestsite.com
“The Rainforest Site is an online activism site that gives Internet users the daily opportunity to quickly make a difference in the fight to save rainforests around the world.”

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Adult Books

Central America: A natural and cultural history
[972.8 Co]

Diversity of life
By Wilson, Edward O. [574.5 Wi.]

Inside the Dzanga Sangha Rain Forest: From the working journals of the scientists, artists, and filmmakers on expedition for the American Museum of Natural History
[574.5 In]

Jungles
By Lanting, Frans [Coming soon.]

Last rain forests, The: A world conservation atlas
[574.5 La]

Lessons of the rainforest
[574.5/Le]

Magic Web, A: The tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island
By Ziegler, Christian and Leigh, Egbert G., Jr. [577.3 Zi]

A Naturalist’s guide to the tropics
By Lambertini, Marco [574.5 La]

Rainforests of the world: A reference handbook
by Gay, Kathlyn. [574.5/Ga Ref]

Tropical forest ecology: A view from Barro Colorado Island
By Leigh, Egbert G., Jr. [577.34 Le]

Tropical rainforest: A world survey of our most valuable and endangered habitat with a blueprint for its survival
by Newman, Arnold, 1941- [574.5 Ne]

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Adult Videos

Borneo forests without land
[919.11/Bo]

Rain forest selva verde: The green jungle
[574.9/Ra]

Tropical rainforest
[574.5 Tr]

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Children’s Books

The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
Cherry, Lynne. [Easy – Cherry]

The Shaman’s Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
Cherry, Lynne and Mark J. Plotkin. [Easy – Cherry]

Nature’s Green Umbrella
Gibbons, Gail. [J/Non-Fic 574.5 Gi]

One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest
George, Jean Craighead. [J/Non-Fic 574.5 Ge]

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy
Lasky, Kathryn. [J/Non-Fic 574.5 La]

A Walk in the Rainforest
Pratt-Serafini, Kristin Joy. [J/Non-Fic 574.5 Pr]

Here is the Tropical Rainforest
Dunphy, Madeline. [Coming soon.]  

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Children’s Videos

The Magic School Bus: In the Rainforest
[VT J 574.5 Ma]

Rainforest for Children: People of the Rainforest
[VT J 574.5 Pe]

Rainforest for Children: Animals of the Rainforest
[VT J 574.5 An]

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