Amazon Conservation/Sustainable Development

Another useful link here, focusing on the Mamiraua reserve - will add a bit more specific detail to the info you have already from the textbook.

Yr13 - Amazon tribes using technology to protect rainorest

Just come across this article about Amazon tribes using technology to protect the rainforest through "cultural mapping"...

(I found this via The Prince's Rainforests Project page on Facebook - worth a look as there seems to be lots of other potentially useful stuff on there too http://www.facebook.com/#!/rainforestSOS.)

Skills Books...

The skills books that I've mentioned are:

AQA Geography Skills - book written specificially for our course, covering GEOG2 (AS) and GEO4a (A2).

and Essential Geographical Skills - a general skills book covering a range of graphical, statistical, cartographic and fieldwork skills...

I've just noticed that there are also guides for GEOG1 and GEOG3 available in the same series as the first book - I've not got copies of them yet, so can't say how useful (or otherwise) they are.

Atlas Schmatlas!

Well, my intentions of doing lots of work have been thwarted yet again by the arrival of a parcel from Amazon containing Atlas Schmatlas... Only had a quick look so far, but it looks fantastic! I'm particularly liking the Climate Map of the World (we live in an "Umbrella now and again" zone) and the story of the was between the penguins and the polar bears...

Not very happy at all about the ridiculous amount of packaging it arrived with though...