A Walk in the Rain Forest, 2nd Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Walk in the Rain Forest, 2nd Edition write by Rebecca L. Johnson. This book was released on 2021-01-01. A Walk in the Rain Forest, 2nd Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Take a walk in the rain forest. It's hot and humid and humming with life. Look up into the dense canopy of leaves above you. Tangled vines lead to the treetops, where parrots squawk and monkeys swing from branch to branch. A poison dart frog clings to a slippery leaf. A sloth creeps through the canopy. The dense rain forest overflows with life. Discover the plants and animals that depend on each other in this unique biome through narrative text, entrancing photos, and illustrations.
Looking Closely in the Rain Forest
Looking Closely in the Rain Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Looking Closely in the Rain Forest write by Frank Serafini. This book was released on 2010-08. Looking Closely in the Rain Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the magic of close-up photography, the author first asks the reader to identify an object found in a rain forest in a super-close-up picture, with the next page revealing the entire picture.
In Search of the Rain Forest
In Search of the Rain Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the Rain Forest write by Candace Slater. This book was released on 2004-03-22. In Search of the Rain Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a marvelously wild and vulnerable rain forest. Although representations like these have fueled laudable rescue efforts, in many ways they have done more harm than good, as these essays show. Such icons tend to conceal both the biological variety of rain forests and the diversity of their human inhabitants. They also frequently obscure the specific local and global interactions that are as much a part of today’s rain forests as are the array of plants and animals. In attending to these complexities, this volume focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these characterizations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines—history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology—the contributors provide case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. They point the way toward a search for a rain forest that is both a natural entity and a social history, an inhabited place and a shifting set of ideas. The essayists demonstrate how the single image of a wild and yet fragile forest became fixed in the popular mind in the late twentieth century, thereby influencing the policies of corporations, environmental groups, and governments. Such simplistic conceptions, In Search of the Rain Forest shows, might lead companies to tout their “green” technologies even as they try to downplay the dissenting voices of native populations. Or they might cause a government to create a tiger reserve that displaces peaceful peasants while opening the doors to poachers and bandits. By encouraging a nuanced understanding of distinctive, constantly evolving forests with different social and natural histories, this volume provides an important impetus for protection efforts that take into account the rain forest in all of its complexity. Contributors. Scott Fedick, Alex Greene, Paul Greenough, Nancy Peluso, Suzana Sawyer, Candace Slater, Charles Zerner
Rain Rain Rainforest
Rain Rain Rainforest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rain Rain Rainforest write by Brenda Z. Guiberson. This book was released on 2004-04. Rain Rain Rainforest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Take a journey through a rain forest, investigating the plants and animals that dwell there.
The Tropical Rain Forest
The Tropical Rain Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tropical Rain Forest write by Marius Jacobs. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Tropical Rain Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.
