• The Living Edens: Manu
  Along the eastern base of the Andes is a great red and winding river named Manu -- the lifeblood and main highway for the Manu Biosphere Reserve. The Reserve offers us a special look at the abundance of life in the rare Amazonian wilderness.
  http://www.pbs.org/edens/manu/

• NOVA: Warriors of the Amazon
  The Yanomami people have lived in a remote part of the Amazon rain forest in Venezuela, South America, for centuries with little or no contact from outside society. Within the past 40 or 50 years, however, contact from non-native groups outside the Yanomami culture has increased, with both postive and negative results.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shaman/

• Going Places: Interview With Philip Klint
  "Going Places" takes people from everyday life to exotic places around the globe. In this interview, Philip Klint travels to Ecuador from his home in New York City, where he is correspondent for Eco News on Mexican TV. He has lived in countries including Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil.
  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/goingplaces2/ecuador/interviews.html

Other Online Resources

• Greatest Places: The Amazon
  "The Greatest Places" is a large-format film that takes you on an educational journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on Earth. This part of the companion Web site offers information about the Amazon, postcards of macaws, boating tips for the Amazon, and more.
  http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/greatestplaces/
  book_pages/amazon2.htm

• Exploring the Vast Amazon
  If you like the Amazon, there are "tons of information" on tribes, location, environmental and conservation issues, and most of all, animals of the Amazon. This site, produced by students as part of ThinkQuest, is a terrific example of what enterprising young minds can accomplish.
  http://prince.thinkquest.org/5128/

• Live From 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-Live From The Rainforest.
  http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/intro.html

• Amazonia From Space
  You will find here LANDSAT images used by PRODES (the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Survey Project) in 1991. These images show LANDSAT bands 3 in blue, 4 in green and 5 in red. They were received by INPE's station of Cuiabá, processed in INPE's Cachoeira Paulista Space Center and produced by IBM Rio Scientific Center.
  http://www.dpi.inpe.br/grid/quick-looks

• Amazon Interactive
  This site is based on field research into indigenous ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It is designed to illustrate some basic physical and human geography of the Amazon, as well as the risks and benefits of ecotourism as a development strategy. If you'd like to learn more, you can read the research report on which these activities are based.
  http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html

• Amazon Life
  The Amazon region has a great forest that presents the largest biodiversity of the world. It is a plane equatorial area, covering 5.5 million square kilometers, that corresponds to more than half of the European continent. This web site uses this rich and natural area for the study of Ecology, presenting concepts about Energy Flow and the Matter Cycle, and information about the Brazilian area of the Amazon Rainforest.
  http://library.thinkquest.org/20248/inicio.html