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Discusses rain forest ecology and its worldwide destruction, using the Amazon Basin as a case study.

A survey of how rain forests work, what makes them such rich habitats, why we need them, the consequences of their current destruction andwhat we can do to save them.

Eight-year-old Omar Castillo fulfills his dream of visiting the endangered rain forest of southern Mexico and wins an audience with the president of Mexico to express his concern.

"Meticulously researched and gorgeously illustrated, a conservation biologist and an acclaimed artist team up to expertly guide readers into the complex ecosystem of Malaysia's Taman Negara where they will meet an array of living things that are all interconnected"--

Explores the problem of rain forest destruction, discussing the importance of rain forests to Earth, the causes and effects of deforestation, and what people can do to save rain forest biomes.

Describes the characteristics and value of tropical rain forests, why they are disappearing, and how to save them.

Rainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity--but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines,...

A rainforest is in danger of being cut down, so one of its residents takes it upon herself to show a worker the damage he is causing.

Describes the plants, animals, and human inhabitants of a tropical rain forest and discusses the importance of these unique environments and threats to their survival.