Letter to the Amazon government

Post date: Mar 30, 2015 2:42:00 AM

Final Draft-Due Friday, April 10

The first draft of this letter is due:

Boys-Wednesday, April 1

Girls-Friday, April 3

Handouts, criteria, and rubric is attached below.

You can cite your sources using Noodle Tools, MLA Lite. It is free and easy to use. You can save your work and/or export your Works Cited to GoogleDocs to share with me.

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Websites to help you with research:

What people are doing about the conflict:

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/10/17/ARPA-program-protected-areas-Amazon-results-challenges

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/last-of-amazon/

Amazon people

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_people.html

http://www.amazon-rainforest.org/indigenous-tribes.html

Rubber Tappers

https://rainforestrescue.sky.com/our-campaign/how-your-money-helps/sustainable-products/rubber-tapping

http://www.iadb.org/en/news/webstories/2012-06-19/sustainable-management-in-acre-brazil,10031.html

Logging

http://traveltips.usatoday.com/logging-affects-amazon-rain-forest-107955.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/12/tribes-battle-illegal-loggers-in-the-amazon-in-these-shocking-photographs/

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/1009.htm

http://www.tropicalforestfoundation.org/projects/brazil

Settlers

http://www.shinai.org.pe/en/50key_issues/amazoniansettlers.htm

Cattle ranching

http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2006/final/threats/threat_agg.html

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0812.htm

http://www.fao.org/docrep/ARTICLE/WFC/XII/0568-B1.HTM

Environmentalists

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/world/americas/in-brazil-protection-of-amazon-rainforest-takes-a-step-back.html?_r=0

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_conservation.html