Appendix A
Sources of Further Information
Organizations and Web Pages
American Forestsc
http://www.amfor.org/
Click on Carbon debt calculator
Center for International
Forestry Research
http://www.cgiar.org/cifor/
Cultural Survival
Suite 500
96 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 01238
http://www.cs.org/
Click on Education and Outreach
Contains information about the people who live in the tropical rainforests.
Forest Resources Environmental Education Network
http://www.freenetwork.org
Forest Stewardship Council
http://www.fscus.org/
Michigan State University
http://www.bsrsi.msu.edu/
Rainforest Report Card
National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/
Click on Modules and Activities, then on Tropical Poison.
National Wildlife Federation
Education Department
8925 Leesburg Pike
Vienna, VA
http://www.nwf.org
Rainforest Alliance
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org
For kids and teachers.
Contains rainforest stories, resources for kids, activities, etc.
Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW
Kew, Surrey
TW 9 3AB,UK
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk
Contains information about the world's plants, along with a search feature
Science in the Rainforest
http://www.pbs.org/tal/costa_rica/
United Nations
http://www.fao.org
Click on Forestry
University of Minnesota Tropical
Forest Conservation and
Development Online Bibliography
http://www.lib.umn.edu/for/bib/trps.html
World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/
Click on Forest Resources, then on Tropical Forests
USDA Forest Service
http://www.fs.fed.us/global/globe/
World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/
Click on Development Topics, then Sustainable Development.
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre
219 Huntingdon Road
Cambridge CB3 ODL, UK
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/forest/data
Contains a wealth of information on the world's forest and biodiversity
Books and Publications
The following books are generally available in the library, for purchase from bookstores and online retailers, or through the organization listed.
Caufield, Catherine. 1986. In the Rainforest: Report from a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cruz, M., C. Meyer, R. Repetto, and R. Woodward. 1992. Population Growth, Poverty, and Environmental Stress: Frontier Migration in the Philippines and Costa Rica. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute.
Dubosque, D.C. 1994. Draw! Rainforest Animals. Molalla, Oreg.: Peel Productions.
Emmons, Louise. 1997. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Goodman, Susan E. 1995. Bats, Bugs, and Biodiversity. New York: Atheneum.
Gradwohl, J., and R. Greenberg. 1988. Saving the Tropical Forests. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Katz, Daniel R. 1995. Tales from the Jungle: A Rainforest Reader. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks.
Lyman, Francesca. 1998. Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rainforest: Exploring the Heart of Central Africa. New York: Workman Publishing.
Palo, M., and J. Salmi. 1987. Deforestation or Development in the Third World? Helsinki: Finnish Forest Research Institute, Division of Social Economics of Forestry, Report No. 272.
Petersen, Roger Tory. First Guides series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
USDA Forest Service. 1993. Map of Forest Type Groups of the United States. In: Eyre, F. 1980. Forest Cover Types of the United States and Canada, Washington D.C.: Society of American Foresters.
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