People Of The Rain Forests: 6 (Wide World)

by N/A

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.27

  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.