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Rainforest Action ... One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries. ... There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
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www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm
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However, Yasuni National Park also sits on wealth of a different kind: one billion barrels of oil remain locked under the pristine rainforest. Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with "their lives";
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rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/
rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/
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The park is 1,039,390 acres (or 420,626 hectares) of lowland Amazonian rainforest in eastern Peru. The park is the culmination of over a decade of work by the local non-profit CEDIA (the Center for the Development of the Indigenous Amazonians) funded in part by the Worldland Trust.
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rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html
rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html
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BioPark International, Inc. (BPI) provides educational material focusing on the organisms, peoples, and cultures of the Americas. ... Under the great Lupuna tree... ...a hidden world awaits. We'll experience the complex workings of the rainforest and learn about the many adaptations present in its plants and animals.
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www.biopark.org/rforest2.html
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A lost city discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest could unlock the secrets of a legendary tribe. ... The Chachapoyas, also called the Warriors of the Clouds, were an Andean people living in the cloud forests of the Amazonian region of present-day Peru ... The city was found in Amazonian rainforest in northern Peru...
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1091550/Anci...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1091550/Ancient-city-discovered-deep-Amazonian-rainforest-linked-legendary-white-skinned-Cloud-People-Peru.html
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; At a Glance; Size of the Amazon basin: 2.5 million square miles; Length of Amazon river: 6,500 miles; Quick facts: ... Amazonia is the world's largest tropical rainforest, spanning more than half of Brazil.
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www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/enter.html
www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/enter.html
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On an island on a tributary of the Jari River, author Jens Gluessing found a 9ft-high wooden cross etched with swastikas. ... Nazis travelled into the Amazon rainforest to scout suitable sites for a South American colony, according to a new book.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/3252103/Nazis-hoped-...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/3252103/Nazis-hoped-to-found-empire-in-Amazonian-rainforest.html
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Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.
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edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/rforest.html
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