Scotch College

Rainforests

• Animal Bytes: South American ornate horned frog
• Arctic To Amazon Project
• Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station
• DUPC Lemur Graphics Gallery
• Golden Lion Tamarin reintroduction
• Herp pictures - Frogs
• Jungle canopy Crane
• Rainforest Action Network - Kids' Corner
• The large macaw FAQ
• Lismore Tourist Information Centre Guide - National Parks and Rainforests
• Panama: A Parrot Rescue and Release Program
• RAINFOREST
• Rainforest Action Network Home Page
• The Rainforest Workshop
• Richmond Birdwing Butterfly
• Skyrail - Rainforest Cableway
• Tropical Rainforest in Surinam
• Vanishing Rainforests
• World Wide Rainforest Report

TITLE: Animal Bytes: South American ornate horned frog

URL: http://www.bev.net/education/SeaWorld/animal_bytes/frogab.html
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER: Sea World, Inc. and Busch Entertainment Corp.
PLACE: U.S.A.
DATE: Last updated July 1995

Part of a larger site called SeaWorld/ Busch Gardens. A page of facts about this amphibian that lives of the floor of tropical rainforests.

TITLE: Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station

URL: http://www.austrop.org.au/
AUTHOR: Maintained by Hugh Spencer
PUBLISHER: Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station
PLACE: Cape Tribulation, Queensland, Australia
DATE: Not given

Describes the rainforest in this area. There is good information but it is at a fairly difficult reading level. There is also a section that describes ways in which the Daintree Forest is threatened. Which political parties do you think the author supports and which do you think he might be against? How does this effect the information on this page?

TITLE: DUPC Lemur Graphics Gallery

URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/primate/lemgal.html
AUTHOR: Original idea and creation of Home Page by Joel Furr. This revision conceived by Dr. Ken Glander.
PUBLISHER: Duke University Primate Center
PLACE: North Carolina, U.S.A.
DATE: Updated every six to eight weeks

This online gallery is part of the Duke University Primate Center Home Page. There are about a dozen photographs of lemurs in this gallery. The photos change every six to eight weeks. They are labelled clearly with the type of lemur shown.

TITLE: GLT reintroduction (Researchers attempt rescus of Brazil's Golden Lion Tamarins)

URL: http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/zoo/homepage/zooview/newsserv/gltreint.htm
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER: National Zoological Park
PLACE: Washington, U.S.A.
DATE: Last updated April 10th, 1996

The Golden Lion Tamarin is a type of primate whose natural habitat is the rainforests of Brazil. This animal is threatened with extinction so zoos around the world are working to breed Golden Lion Tamarins and reintroduce them to the forests. This site has information about this project as well as photographs of this animal. You can download a movie here or do a crossword or a word search puzzle.

TITLE: Herp pictures - Frogs

URL: http://gto.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pingleto/herps/frogs.html
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER: Mike Pingleton
PLACE: Urbana, Champaign, U.S.A.
DATE: Last updated April 10th, 1996

Part of a larger site called Mike's Herpetocultural Home Page. This is a gallery of frog photographs labelled with their names. You will have to go through all the pictures if you are looking for a particular type of frog, but you might not mind because the pictures are all interesting. They download as thumbnail sketches first which speeds things up. You click on the small pictures if you want to see an enlargement. Not all these frogs live in rainforests. You will have to check somewhere else to find out which ones do.

TITLE: Jungle canopy Crane (Construction crane aids jungle canopy study)

URL: http://photo2.si.edu/crane/crane.html
AUTHOR: Carl C. Hansen
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Photographic Services
PLACE: U.S.A.
DATE: c.1996

This site gives information about a project that used a special jungle crane to take photographs of a jungle in Panama, at the canopy level. There is a gallery of eight photographs taken as part of the project. The photographs include a puffbird, a toucan, a woodpecker, a blue cotinga, a iguana, a flower and a monkey.

TITLE: Kids'action (Rainforest Action Network - Kids' Corner)

URL: http://www.ran.org/ran/kids_action/index.html
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER: Rainforest Action Network
PLACE: San Francisco, U.S.A.
DATE: Last updated March 15th 1996

This site is part of the larger Rainforest Action Network. What are rainforests and why are they so important? Create some rainforest art and take part in the Rainforest calendar contest. Find out what you can do to save rainforests. Read about life in rainforests and how it is threatened. There is also the story of a child from the Penan tribe. Use the glossary of rainforest words. Research rainforest animals and people.

TITLE: The large macaw FAQ

URL: http://www.upatsix.com/faq/lgmacaw.htm
AUTHOR: Jodi Giannini. Web Page design Kathyrn A. Smith
PUBLISHER: www.petbird.com
PLACE: U.S.A.
DATE: last revised 25th October 1993

This page describes different types of Macaws. There are two or three paragraphs on each but no pictures. There is also information about endangered macaws and about keeping Macaws as pets.

TITLE: Lismore Tourist Information Centre Guide - National Parks and Rainforests

URL: http://www.nor.com.au/tourism/rainforest.html
AUTHOR: Lismore Tourist Information Centre
PUBLISHER: NorNet
PLACE: New South Wales, Australia
DATE: Not given

This site is part of the larger Lismore Tourist Information Centre Guide. Here you can find out about the history of the rainforest in the Lismore area and how it was formed. You can also find some brief information about each of the World Heritage Rainforest National Parks in the area. There are some good photographs at this page as well.

TITLE: Panama: A Parrot Rescue and Release Program

URL: http://www.mecca.org/~rporter/PARROTS/panama.html
AUTHOR: Susan L. Clubb
PUBLISHER: World Parrot Trust, USA
PLACE: U.S.A.
DATE: January 1995

Describes the rescue of some macaws and toucans in Panama that the government had confiscated from smugglers. Learn a bit about the problems caused by the smuggling of tropical birds and also about the care of these birds.

TITLE: Rainforest Action Network Home Page

URL: http://www.ran.org/ran/
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER: Rainforest Action Network
PLACE: San Francisco, U.S.A.
DATE: Last updated March 15th 1996

This site has lots of information about the way rainforests are being threatened. There are links to other rainforest and environment Pages. The Action Alert section regularly highlights an area of the world in which rainforests and the people living in them are in danger. You can find out about RAN campaigns to save rainforests and about some of their victories. There are reports from rainforests around the world and information about the rates of rainforest destruction. You can take a rainforest quiz. What is ecotourism and can it help save rainforsts? Find out about sustainable rainforest products and why they are important. Search this whole site using keywords.

TITLE: The Rainforest Workshop

URL: http://mh.osd.wednet.edu/
AUTHOR: Developed by Virginia Reid and the 7th grade students at Marshall Middle School. Maintained by Michaela H., 7th Grade Student.
PUBLISHER: Marshall Middle School
PLACE: Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.
DATE: Last updated 10th March 1996

This site has information about temperate and tropical rainforests. It also has lots of useful links. Find out about the Temperate Rainforest of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S.A. Get information about tropical rainforest animals, including amphibians, birds and mammals. There is also information about tropical rainforest plants, including Epiphytes such as orchids and bromeliads. Find out about the people who live in tropical rainforests. There is lots of good information here but it is often hard to connect to the site and downloading is slow.

TITLE: Richmond Birdwing Butterfly (The Birdwing Butterfly)

URL: http://www.nor.com.au/environment/species/birdwing/
AUTHOR: Page maintained and designed by Wolf. Information supplied by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Alstonville
PUBLISHER: NorNet
PLACE: Australia
DATE: Last updated 25th February, 1996

Clearing of rainforest in the Richmond Valley of New South Wales has led to the low numbers of the Birdwing Butterfly that lives there. These butterflies need special kinds of vines to survive. An Aboriginal group is growing the vines and plans to give them to people in the area to grow, hoping that the butterfly numbers will rise. This page gives information about the project and about the Birdwing Butterflies. There is information on how to make gardens that will attract butterflies. There is also a list of plants that attract butterflies. There are short descriptions of the plants many of which come from the rainforest. There are also instructions on how to care for the Richmond Butterfly Vine.

TITLE: Skyrail - Rainforest Cableway

URL: http://www.jcu.edu.au/gen/CAERA/skyrail/sky_home.htm
AUTHOR: Christopher Sawbridge
PUBLISHER: Skyrail Rainforest Cableway
PLACE: Cairns, Australia
DATE: Last updated February 26th, 1996

This page is an advertisement for the Rainforest Cableway which gives tours of the rainforest in Cairns. The page describes a tour in words and photographs. The tours start at canopy level and descend to the forest floor.

TITLE: Tropical Rainforest in Surinam

URL:http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/suri_eng.html
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER: Marco Bleeker
PLACE: Netherlands
DATE: Last Update February 27th 1996

This site has lots of links to photographs and sound files. Find out about Surinam and the different habitats there. Get information about rainforests in Surinam including the animals and plants that live there. There is a section on Epiphytes, which are plants that are not parasites but grow on trees, without contact with the ground.There are bird and frog sounds in this section. Meet the Carib Indians who are some of the original inhabitants. Find out about the Maroons who also live in the rainforests and are the descendents of escaped slaves.

TITLE: Vanishing Rainforests

URL: http://www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/rainforests/main.html
AUTHOR: Highland Park Elementary School, 4th Grade 1994
PUBLISHER: Highland Park Elementary School
PLACE: Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
DATE:c.1994

This site has maps showing rainforest regions of Australia, Africa, Asia and South and Central America. There is also information about the animals that live in Amazon forests. There is a paragraph about each animal and some have pictures as well. The best thing about this section is that the animals are divided according to what level of the rainforest they live at - Emergent trees, Upper Canopy, Lower Canopy or Understory. There is information about how rainforests are threatened and a list of reasons why we should save them. You can read some poetry about rainforests written by school students. It seems that this site is not being fully maintained, at the moment, but there is still some good information there.

TITLE: World Wide Rainforest Report

URL: http://www.nor.com.au/environment/ric/
AUHTOR: John Revington (Editor)
PUBLISHER: Rainforest Information Centre
PLACE: Lismore, Australia
DATE: Updated every 3 months. Current Issue 7th November 1995

Reports from around the world about issues that effect rainforests. The authors of this newsletter are working to save rainforests. This issue includes a report on the future of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland and another on deforestation in Tibet. The reading level in these reports is quite difficult but there is some interesting information here.