Links

These are some links to sites where you can read more about deforestation, local people and the ecology of the Amazon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest
This is the wikipedia article for the Amazon rainforest. It discusses deforestation in great depth, and has a lot of links.

http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
This is an interesting website involving particularly the Ecuadorian rainforest. There is also a fun game where you run an ecotourism buisness.

http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1026-brazil.html
Did you know that the rate of Amazon deforestation has dropped forty-one percent since 2004? Read About it on this page!

http://www.amazonwatch.org/
Amazonwatch is an organization that works toward allowing the indigenous peoples of the Amazon take matters into their own hands and protecting the Amazon as a whole. They run many different individual projects in the Amazon region.