In this text, you can find out what a Mbuti pygmy in the African Congo, a copper miner in Papua New Guinea and a medicinal plant researcher in the Brazilian Amazon have in common. living, as they do, in some of the world's rain forests. Discover the valuable resources the rain forests hold, from medicinal plants, minerals and rubber, to the most important resource of all, oxygen. Find out also how certain types of work are destroying this valuable resource, and the lives of its indigenous people. This book is part of a series which looks at how specific physical habitats affect people's lives and how people in turn affect their physical habitat. Each books look at key topics such as homes, work, transport and the environment.

 

This is volume 6 in Wide World .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Hachette Children's Group .

Anna Lewington is an experienced writer specializing in the indigenous people of South America. She has been visiting rain forests for many years to find out about the plants, animals, and people that live in them. She has written several books for children about South American rain forests. Anna lives in England with her husband, the writer and photographer Edward Parker, and their two children.