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Southwestern Amazonian Moist Forests:
Resources and Links
Related Links | National Geographic Resources |
Recommended by World Wildlife Fund
AT NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM
Jaguars: Phantoms of the Night
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/
feature2/media2.html
Photographer Steve Winter spent two years tracking the elusive jaguar. Take a multimedia tour of his findings.
Madidi Diary
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0003/madidi
Photographer Joel Sartore endured maggots, flesh-eating parasites, and piranha to shoot Madidi National Park in Bolivia.
AT WORLDWILDLIFE.ORG
Jaguar Fact Sheet
www.worldwildlife.org/species/speciessection.cfm?
sectionid=122&newspaperid=21&contentid=234
Get the basics on this stealthy hunter’s diet, conservation status, and more.
Southwestern Amazonian Rain Forests
www.worldwildlife.org/global200/spacessection.cfm?
sectionid=115&newspaperid=20&contentid=170
Learn more about this rich ecoregion’s biodiversity and threats.
WWF’s Global Forest Program
www.worldwildlife.org/forests/forest.cfm
Learn more about forests and protected areas, and what you can do to help save them.
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
An Amazon Adventure
jajhs.kana.k12.wv.us/amazon/index.htm
Explore a small portion of the upper Amazon through text and pictures from students.
Amazin’ Amazon Mystery Animals
www.ccph.com/aama/index.html
Travel to the Amazon rain forest to encounter 21 animals camouflaged in poetry.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
fscus.org/html
Learn more about the organization that supports environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests.
Journey into Amazonia
www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/
Travel to Amazonia with PBS and get information on the plants and animals that live there.
| Book | The Emerald Realm: Earth’s Precious Rain Forests. 1990. |
| Video | Amazon, Land of the Flooded Forest. 1990. |
| National Geographic magazine | White, Peter T. “Nature’s Dwindling Treasures.” January 1983. |
| Map | “Diversity of Life.” February 1999. |
Recommended by World Wildlife Fund
| Book | Amazon Wildlife. APA Publications, 1994. |
| Book | Castner, James L. The Amazon Rainforest: An Exploration of Countries, Cultures, and Creatures. Feline Press, 1999. |
| Book | Cruxton, J. Bradley, editor. Discovery Series: Discovering the Amazon Rainforest. Oxford University, 1999. |
| Book | Dwyer, Augusta. Into the Amazon. Sierra Club, 1990. |
| Book | Morrison, Marion. The Amazon Rainforest and Its People. Thomson Learning, 1993. |
| Book | Smith, Nigel J.H. The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People. Oxford University, 1999. |
Photograph of
water hyacinths by
Corbis/Wolfgang Kaehler
