Resources

• http://www.rainforestweb.org/ A portal site for extensive information about the rainforest in general and the Amazon rainforest in particular.
  
  
• http://www.projectamazonas.com/index.htm The site of a non-profit humanitarian, conservation, educational organization.
  
  
• http://www.tropicaltreefarms.com The website for a thriving business that plants and sells tropical hardwoods without threatening the rainforest.
  
  
• http://www.ran.org/info_center/ An advocacy center that gives detailed information about the rainforest, the threats placed upon it and some simple ways to help conserve it.
  
  
• http://kids.ran.org/kidscorner/ a website created for kids where they can obtain information about the rainforest, play games and become rainforests activists. 
  
  
• http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/about.html A wonderful site with great explanations of the Amazon ecosystem.

Books

• The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry, 1990, ISBN: 0590980688. A well-known reader that speaks of interdependence between man, plants and animals.
• Amazon Basin, by Jan Reynolds, 1993, ASIN: 0152028315. A well-illustrated book that relates a day in the life of a boy in the Amazon basin among other Yonamama tribe members.