This site from PBS Online explores the useful plants of the Amazon valley from the rain forest Amazonia. Content highlights a variety of selected plants: Astrocaryum aculeatum Meyer, Bactris gasipaes, Hevea brasiliensis, Oenocarpus...

Read about the effects of palm oil cultivation on the world's rainforests and species who live there, and about the development of a new alternative to palm oil. Includes video.

Learn about the interesting and unusual relationship between butterflies and turtles in the Amazon rainforest.

Here you can find a general overview of the importance of the rain forest, and why it needs "saving." A student activity and teacher's lesson plan is also included.

The National Arbor Day Foundation briefly addresses the issue of songbird migration from the United States to the South American rainforests. There is a list of 205 birds that migrate and a slide show with short description of a few of...

Meet some Madagascar lemurs, and learn how the changing climate is affecting their species.

A map showing the division of the world into eight biomes based on different climate types around the world. There are links to more information about each biome.

This site from Ecotrust has information on the people and history of the Northwestern American coastal temperate rain forest.(California to Alaska) Find out about the history of this specific temperate rain forest, and the people it has...

This is a short introduction to the Amazonian people and their culture.