Rainforests
- ISBN-10
- 1463774575
- ISBN-13
- 9781463774578
- Series
- Rainforests
- Category
- Rain forests
- Pages
- 94
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-01
- Publisher
- Mongabay
- Author
- Rhett Ayers Butler
Description
An overview of tropical rainforests for kids. Rainforests describes tropical rainforests, why they are important, and what is happening to them. Rainforests is based on the award-winning mongabay.com web site.Rainforests includes discussion of topics including conservation and protected areas, biodiversity and ecology, environmental activism, sustainable development, consumption, and economics.
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