Population Pyramids

Hey guys,

Population growth is pretty big business. Not only do we manage wild populations with it, or make a killing on forestry projects, or fisheries, or figure out how to stop the spread of epidemic disease--we're interested in how many of us there are going to be in the future. The US Census Bureau has a great page on looking at populations in terms of age and sex--population pyramids-- for all the countries of the world. We'll be going over these in class.

Gold Mining Deforestation in Peru

Hey guys, here is the video of the overflight of the gold rush in Madre de Dios, Peru.  The narrator is a famous Peruvian journalist and if you speak Spanish, what he says is moving.  If you don't, well, the video speaks for itself.