Rainforest
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.
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
Cumulative Deforestation
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.
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.
