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Amazon River and Flooded 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
Amazon
www.worldwildlife.org/amazon/
Find out more about this amazing place, the species that inhabit it, and what conservationists are doing to protect it.
Flooded Forest of the Amazon
www.worldwildlife.org/global200/spacessection.cfm?newspaperid=20&Sectionid=115&contentid=171
Learn more about this rich ecoregion's biodiversity and threats.
Giant River Otters
http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/speciessection.cfm?sectionid=122&newspaperid=21&contentid=630
Get the basics on the largest otter in the world.
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB
Journey into Amazonia
www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia
Travel to Amazonia with PBS and get information on the plants and animals that live there.
Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation
www.aceer.org
Find more about a foundation using education and research for conservation of the Amazon.
Amazon Conservation Team
www.amazonteam.org
Learn about a group dedicated to creating new conservation strategies by combining indigenous knowledge with Western science to understand, document, and preserve the biological and cultural diversity of the Amazon.
| 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 | Cherry, Lynne. The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. Voyager Books, 2000. |
| Book | Gheerbrant, Alain. The Amazon: Past, Present, and Future. Harry N. Abrams, 1992. |
| Book | Goulding, Michael, Nigel J.H. Smith, and Dennis J. Mahar. Floods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon. Colombia University Press, 1996. |
| Book | Barnard, Hans Ulrich, editor. Insight Guide Amazon Wildlife. Insight Guides, 2002. |
| Book | O'Connor, Geoffrey. Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier. Plume, 1998. |
| Book | Smith, Nigel J. H. The Amazon River Forest: A Natural History of Plants, Animals, and People. Oxford University Press, 1999. |
Photograph of
hoatzins by
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