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Recommended reading about rainforests and conservation

Deepen your understanding of rainforest ecosystems and conservation with these recommended books by leading experts and researchers.

Rainforests and Their Conservation

Tropical Nature

Authors: Adrian Forsyth & Ken Miyata

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

ISBN 0 684 17964 4 (Hardcover) | ISBN 0 684 18710 8 (Paperback)

Life Above the Jungle Floor

Author: Donald Perry

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York

ISBN 0 671 54454 3 (Hardcover) | ISBN 0 671 64426 2 (Paperback)

In the Rainforest

Author: Catherine Caufield

Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago

ISBN 0 226 09786 2 (Paperback)

Portraits of the Rain Forest

Author: Adrian Forsyth

Publisher: Camden House, Ontario

ISBN 0 921820 13 5 (Hardcover)

The Last Rain Forests

Author: Mark Collins

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press, New York

ISBN 0 19 520836 6 (Hardcover)

A Neotropical Companion

Author: John C. Kricher

Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press, New Jersey

ISBN 0 691 08520 X (Acetate Pb) | ISBN 0 691 08521 8 (Paperback)

The Rain Forest Book

Author: Scott Lewis

Publisher: Living Planet Press, California

ISBN 0 9626072 1 5 (Paperback)

Lessons of the Rain Forest

Authors: Suzanne Head & Robert Heinzman

Publisher: Sierra Club, San Francisco

ISBN 0 87156 678 8 (Hardcover) | 0 87156 682 6 (Paperback)

The Fate of the Forest

Authors: Susanna Hecht & Alexander Cockburn

Publisher: Harper Collins, New York

ISBN 0 06 097322 6 (Paperback)

Trees of Life

Authors: Kenton Miller & Laura Tangley

Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston

ISBN 0 8070 8508 1 (Hardcover) | 0 8070 8505 7 (Paperback)

Into the Amazon

Author: Augusta Dwyer

Publisher: Sierra Club, San Francisco

ISBN 0 87156 637 0 (Paperback)

The Tropical Rain Forest

Author: Marius Jacobs

Publisher: Springer-Verlag, New York

ISBN 3 540 17996 8 | 0 387 17996 8

Gorillas In the Mist

Author: Dian Fossey

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston

ISBN 0 395 28217 9 (Hardcover) | 0 395 36638 0 (Paperback)

Amazonia

Authors: Ghillean Prance & Thomas Lovejoy

Publisher: Pergamon Press, New York

ISBN 0 08 030776 0 (Hardcover)

Conversion of Tropical Moist Forests

Author: Norman Myers

Publisher: National Academy of Sciences, Washington

Amazon Jungle: Green Hell to Red Desert?

Authors: R.J.A. Goodland & H.S. Irwin

Publisher: Elsevier Scientific Publishing, New York

ISBN 0 444 41318 9 (Hardcover)

Rainforest Adventure

In Trouble Again

Author: Redmund O'Hanlon

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York

ISBN 0 679 72714 0 (Paperback)

Into the Heart of Borneo

Author: Redmond O'Hanlon

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York

ISBN 0 394 75540 5 (Paperback)

The Rivers Amazon

Author: Alex Shoumatoff

Publisher: Sierra Club, San Francisco

ISBN 0 87156 771 7 (Paperback)

In Southern Light

Author: Alex Shoumatoff

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York

ISBN 0 679 73077 X (Paperback)

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Author: Henry Walter Bates

Publisher: Penguin Books, New York

ISBN 0 14 017011 1 (Paperback)

Who Goes Out in the Mid-Day Sun?

Author: Benedict Allen

Publisher: Viking Press, New York

ISBN 0 670 81032 0 (Hardcover)

Running the Amazon

Author: Joe Kane

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York

ISBN 0 679 72902 X (Paperback)

Stranger in the Forest

Author: Eric Hansen

Publisher: Penguin Books, New York

ISBN 0 14 009586 1 (Paperback)

The Cloud Forest

Author: Peter Matthiessen

Publisher: Penguin Books, New York

ISBN 0 14 009549 7 (Paperback)

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

Author: Tim Cahill

Publisher: Bantam Books, New York

ISBN 0 553 34276 2 (Paperback)

The Farm on the River of Emeralds

Author: Moritz Thomsen

Publisher: Vintage Books, New York

ISBN 0 394 75994 X (Paperback)

Environmental Issues and the Fate of Earth and its Species

The Diversity of Life

Author: E. O. Wilson

Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1992)

ISBN 0 674 21298 3

BioDiversity

Author: E.O. Wilson

Publisher: National Academy Press, Washington D.C. (1988)

ISBN 0 309 03783 2 (Hardcover) | 0 309 03739 5 (Paperback)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY (2014)

ISBN 978 0 8050 9299 8

eaarth

Author: Bill McKibben

Publisher: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company (2010)

ISBN 978 0 8050 9056 7

Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species

Authors: Paul and Anne Ehrlich

Publisher: Random house, New York, NY (1981)

ISBN 0 394 51312 6

Indigenous People

Indigenous Peoples - A Global Quest For Justice

Authors: Sadruddin Agakhan & Hassan bin Talal

Publisher: Zen Books Ltd., New Jersey

ISBN 0 86232 758 (Hardcover) | 0 86232 759 8 (Paperback)

The Indigenous Voice - Visions and Realities

Author: Roger Moody

Publisher: Zen Books Ltd., New Jersey

ISBN 0 86232 305 3 (Hardcover) | 0 86232 306 1 (Paperback)

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