Below are some references to other resources, such as films and places to contact or visit.

About Amazônia

Amazônia: Farming the Rainforest (magazine feature),
New Scientist, No. 2048, 21 Sept 1996

A series of articles examining the current state of the Amazon rainforest, and scientific efforts to determine the effects of development, and other efforts to examine and record data about the huge number of species (largely unknown) of plants and animals living in the rainforest.

Animals

Jungle Cat (film),
Walt Disney (1960)

This well filmed and narrated feature-length movie follows a family of jaguars for a year in the Amazon rainforest. It shows how the jaguar live, hunt, and play. Suitable and entertaining for young viewers. It may be available on video, it was also recently screened by TV3 (March 1997).

Brazil

Environment

Explorers

General Reference

Microsoft Encarta (CD-ROM),
Microsoft Software.

This CD-ROM encyclopedia is a handy and easy to use reference for school and home study. The ability to easily search and cross-reference information makes it extremely useful. RRP $NZ 99.95

TVNZ New Zealand Encyclopedia, Second Edition (CD-ROM),
ProTech International, Nelson.

An interesting, informative, and easy to use encyclopedia of New Zealand related material. Useful for finding the NZ equivalent to facts, figures and histories quoted for other countries. RRP $NZ 79.95

People

Stories

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