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Deforestation
of Rainforests
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Hot
Link! - http://www.ran.org/
Rainforest Action Network - This is the site of
an environmental pressure group, providing an extensive
range of information as well as links to other relevant
sites.
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Hot
Link! - http://rainforest-alliance.org/
Rainforest Alliance - Both these sites are excellent
for investigating levels of deforestation and its
consequences. Both sites encourage users to help
in the campaign to reduce deforestation in the future.
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The
Amazon from space
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Hot
Link! - http://www.dpi.inpe.br/grid/quick-looks
The Brazilian government monitor levels of deforestation
partly through the use of remote sensing.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 Centre and produced by IBM Rio Scientific
Centre. The index page includes a map of the region,
the user clicks on a grid square to download the
satellite image for the selected region. Unfortunately
the resolution of the images is poor, but this is
an excellent example to use with pupils to demonstrate
a use of satellite images.
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Soil
Erosion
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Desertification
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FAO
Hypermedia Collection on Desertification - Hot
Link! - http://www.fao.org/desert/objects/slideshw/show.htm
This collection on desertification was prepared
by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) as a contribution to the First
Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP1)
to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
(UNCCD), Rome, Italy, 29 September - 10 October
1997. This hypermedia collection contains key FAO
documents, graphs and photographs on desertification
and the mitigation of drought. It covers materials
produced by FAO from 1993 to July 1997. This site
has an excellent collection of resources about Desertification,
including a collection of photographs from around
the world and factfiles which include maps, graphs
and text, which could be downloaded and pasted into
other ICT applications to produce presnetations
or just printed onto OHP's to make instant teaching
and learning resources for use in the classroom.
There is also a collection of film clips. The site
links to an extensive bibliography of articles about
the issues of desertification.
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The
Food and Agriculture Organization - Hot Link!
- http://www.fao.org/
Was founded in October 1945 with a mandate to raise
levels of nutrition and standards of living, to
improve agricultural productivity, and to better
the condition of rural populations.This site includes
a wealth of resources for the geographer about global
issues whic are intragal to any GCSE course, photographs
articles, special reports. At the timer of writing
a detailed outline about Bangladesh was available
as well as.
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FAOSTAT
is an on-line and multilingual database currently
containing over 1 million time-series records covering
international statistics in the following areas:
Production ;Trade; Food Balance Sheets; Food Aid
Shipments ;Fertilizer and Pesticides ;Land Use and
Irrigation Forest Products;Fishery Products; Population;
Agricultural Machinery
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Wetlands
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World
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