A walk in a tropical rainforest - tropical rainforest plants and sights

Resources on tropical forests 

Florida Palm Tress

Florida Palm Trees offers advice and great tips that will help you transform your garden into a tropical paradise. Learn all about how to choose and grow palm trees.

World Rainforest Information Portal

Information about the importance of rainforests and issues with destruction of rainforests with global links and resources.

Rainforest Facts

Explains the wealth, biodiversity and healing powers of rainforests and discusses the threats to their conservation.

Rainforests for kids

Great resources for kids and teachers with photos articles, and rainforest characters.

Rainforest at Night - Virtual World

After dark in Borneo, new sights, sounds and smells emerge that are not seen, heard or smelt during the day. Take a virtual tour...

Where are the rainforests?

This site shows the location of the world's tropical rainforests. Rainforests cover only a small part of the earth's surface - about 6%, yet they are home to over half the species of plants and animals in the world.

Tropical Rainforests - North Queensland

North-eastern Australia is very diverse because it is jam packed full of very close, but very different, ecosystems and their smaller vegetation communities; coral reefs, sea grass communities, mangroves, beaches, rocky shores, wet schlerophyll forest, tropical open forests and woodlands. Identifies flora and fauna and rainforest sights.

Amazon Interactive

Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. 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.

Mariri Magazine - The Voice of the Forst

Mariri Magazine is a journal about the rainforest for people who love the rainforest.

Passport to the Rainforest

Follow in Darwin's footsteps, courtesy of PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE, to the heart of our planet's largest rainforest, guided by some of the world's leading biologists. Explore "the greatest expression of life" so far discovered in all the Universe, via a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on science activities - PASSPORT TO THE RAINFOREST.

Save the Rainforests

Rainforests come in a variety of types; tropical and temperate rainforests, cloud forest, lowland rainforest, hill slope rainforest all of which can be either primary or secondary in nature. One thing all these types of rainforest have in common is that they are all in decline. Offers ways to save the rainforests.

Mongabay.com - Conserving rainforests

Mongabay.com seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development

Willie Smits Restores a Rainforest for Orangutans

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

Trans-boundary Rainforest Park will be a symbol of peace and stability

The Presidents of Sierra Leone and Liberia met on 15 May 2009 in the Gola Forest, Sierra Leone, to announce the establishment of a new Trans-boundary Peace Park, to protect one of the largest remaining blocks of intact forest in the Upper Guinea Area of West Africa.