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Jaguar Hunting and Trade

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/jaguar.htm

6 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

an examination of a Venezualan proposal to allow limited sport hunting of jaguars for export from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 30, 2001 | Rate It

Jungle Photos

http://www.junglephotos.com/

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

hundreds of images of animals, plants, scenery and people from the Amazon rainforest in tropical South America; all photos have explanations
Added: Jan. 05, 2005 | Rate It

Movement in the Amazon for Tribal Subsistence and Economic Sustainability (MATSES)

http://www.matses.org/

offers assistance to the Matsés indigenous communities so that this native Amazonian tribe can conserve their native culture and indigenous communal reserve in a sustainable and autonomous manner
Added: May. 12, 2007 | Rate It

Pan-American Highway and the Environment (PANAM)

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/panam.htm

2 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

examines the threat posed by the Pan-American Highway to the lush rainforest in the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama, a case study from American University's TED database
Added: Feb. 10, 2001 | Rate It

Pañacocha Biological Corridor

http://www.ancientforests.org/ecuador/

a 137-acre acquisition located within the Pañacocha Bosque Protector, a 140,000-acre primary forest/blackwater lagoon system including flooded and terra firma forest
Added: Jan. 19, 2005 | Rate It

Parrot Trade

http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/parrot.htm

an examination of how the demand for exotic birds as pets has made Neotrpical parrots one of the most threatened groups of birds in the World, from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 30, 2001 | Rate It

Partners in mahogany crime: Amazon at the mercy of 'gentlemen's agreements'

http://archive.greenpeace.org/forests/forests_new/html/content/reports/Mahoganyweb.pdf

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

Greenpeace report reveals that the mahogany trade is driving the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest and is run by a corrupt industry that is undermining traditional cultures (pdf)
Added: Nov. 04, 2001 | Rate It

Passport to the Rainforest

http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on science activities to teach about the tropical rainforest
Added: Jan. 07, 2005 | Rate It

Planeta.com

http://www.planeta.com/

highlights environmental issues around the globe with a special focus on ecotourism and Latin America
Added: Jan. 17, 2002 | Rate It

Project BioMap

http://www.biomap.net/English/principal.htm

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

an alliance for biodiversity data sharing and dissemination, specializing in birds in Colombia and their conservation
Added: Feb. 06, 2004 | Rate It

Rainforest Concern

http://rainforestconcern.org/

seeks to protect threatened natural habitats, the biodiversity they contain and the indigenous people who still depend on them for their survival, primarily through project work in South America
Added: Feb. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Rainforest Conservation Fund

http://www.rainforestconservation.org/

dedicated to preserving the world's tropical forests, the main project is the Reserva Comunal Tamshiyacu- Tahuayo (RCTT) in the Peruvian Amazon
Added: Jan. 18, 2001 | Rate It

Rainforests 2015

http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/amazon/index.html

WWF's on the ground campaign to protect the Amazon river basin
Added: Feb. 06, 2001 | Rate It

RedLAC updated

http://www.redlac.org/index.php?lang=en

seeks to set up an effective system of learning, strengthening, training, and cooperation through a network of environmental funds aimed at the conservation and sustainable use of nature
Added: Feb. 10, 2005 | Rate It

Tropical Plant Database

http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

dedicated to providing information and education on the important plants of the Amazon Rainforest through a searchable database of taxonomic, phytochemical and ethnobotanical data
Added: Mar. 30, 2001 | Rate It

Warriors of the Amazon

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shaman/

focuses upon the Yanomami people who live in a remote part of the Amazon in forest in Venezuela, South America; supplement to a NOVA television program
Added: Mar. 23, 2001 | Rate It
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