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- Amazon River Dolphins
An extensive, well presented study on Amazon River Dolphins in the northern Peruvian Amazon, incorporating background information, field notes, graphics, maps and scientific research. Prepared by educators, students and grad students. Lesson plans available. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Anchovy Depletion and Trade
Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Focuses on trade as an agent of globalization. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - BuyTheRainforest.Net
Lays out the Foundation's goals of buying land in the cloud-and-rain forest areas and opening the "Shaman Medical Research Center" joining local shamans in investigating plant species to find new compounds, vaccines and cures for diseases. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Coca Trade and Environment
Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Explores the ecological impact of drug trafficking on the Amazon. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - El Niño
Discusses short and long term environmental effects on army tactical decision of this current off the Peruvian coast. With links to other information. U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Guano Trade
Analyses the history and impact of guano mining and commerce in the 19th and early 20th century, as part of the Trade Environment Database (TED) at American University. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Lost Crops of the Inca
Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989), an online manuscript that covers research about exotic cereales, fruits, roots and tubers. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Medical Geography and Cholera
Makes a case study of the epidemic outbreak in 1991, with graphics and geographic information system data files. University of Colorado's Department of Geography (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Plants of the Machiguenga
A combination travelogue and scientific inquiry into medicinal uses of rain forest plants. Neurologist Ethan Russo examines the ethnobotany, anthropology, and wildlife of this Amazonian tribe in Parque Nacional del Manu. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Rainforest Conservation Fund
RCF informs about efforts to raise funds for and manage the 800,000 acre Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo Community Reserve near Iquitos. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - Trade and Environment: Peru Mining
Case study from the Trade Environment Database, part of the Mandala Projects at American University. Examines the impact of globalization on people. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
Rate It - US Geological Survey P 1386-I
A detailed study of glaciation in Peru by Benjamín Morales-Arnao with sections on the Cordillera Blanca on landsat imagery and Quelccaya Ice Cap by Stefan L. Hastenrath. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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