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Rainforest

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Amazon: The World's Largest Rainforest
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/
This website gives basic background information about the Amazon Rainforest.
 
Rainforest Facts
http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
This website gives in-depth information about the Amazon Rainforest, as well as outlines major challenges such as deforestation.

Rainforest Destruction
http://www.savetherainforest.org/savetherainforest_006.htm
This website gives overviews of the reasons for the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest.


Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon, 2000-2005

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http://sitemaker.umich.edu/section3group2/deforestation_of_the_amazon_rainforests_and_co2

Cumulative Deforestation

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http://sitemaker.umich.edu/section3group2/deforestation_of_the_amazon_rainforests_and_co2


IMPORTANT DEBATE UPDATE:

The two sides for the Oxford Style Debate will be:

A. Resources from the rainforest should be saved to help people of the future.
                                            versus
B. Resources from the rainforest should be used to help people today.

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