Conservation of our planet’s botanical resources and ecosystems
  • Welcome to TREE Foundation

    TREE Foundation pursues and promotes research, education, and exploration to advance the conservation of our planet's botanical resources and ecosystems dependent upon them.

    You can help us in our mission by donating now.

  • Our CHURCH FOREST project offers local dollars for local people to build stone walls around their forest.
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  • Dr. "CanopyMeg" Lowman and Dr. Alemayehu Wassie Eshete guide us on a walk around the wall build at Zhara Church Rainforest in Ethiopia. The Zhara wall was possible thanks to efforts from scientists, donors, and the TREE Foundation. Learn more about the Church Forests of Ethiopia.

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TREE Foundation is working on Ethiopian church forest conservation and could use your help at saving these 14 critical forests for stewardship in northern Ethiopia. See the video to the right for a tour of a stone wall we helped build to protect the Zhara church forest.

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Donate to TREE Foundation to help us with our conservation, education and exploration efforts. Learn about other donation options and fundraising projects here.

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Sloth Research & Conservation

Sloths

The Pygmy three-toed sloth is one of the world’s most endangered animals and the TREE Foundation has established a special fund to support canopy research on sloths.

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New Book Available

Methods in Forest Canopy Research

New forest canopy book available! Methods in Forest Canopy Research from University of California Press.

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Church Forests of Ethiopia

Church Forests of Ethiopia

Dr. Meg Lowman with the support of TREE Foundation has lead a team of researchers and conservationists to Ethiopia on a mission to help save the Church Forests of Ethiopia.

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Go Conscious Earth

Go Conscious Earth

Find out how TREE and Go Conscious Earth are helping preserve the Nsoli Na Mato Rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and how you can help!

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Dear Dr. Water Bear

Dr. Water Bear

TREE Foundation is proud to have Dr. Water Bear answer your questions about Water Bears (Tardigrades). Ask a question or read answers given to other inquiring minds.

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Latest Posts

NRC Citizen Science Expedition to the Amazon Rain Forest

Follow the latest from the expedition below

RSS Lowman's Leaf Lovers Club

  • Silly for Sloths!!! August 5, 2012
    Who knew that today we would actually have a chance to see, let alone hold, a real live South American sloth. Sloths are medium-sized mammals and are related to the armadillo and the anteater. Really? That seems a little hard to believe. Unlike the armadillo that has an armor shell, the sloth has short wiry hair […]
  • We leave “The Clinic” and head to ExplorNapo Lodge. August 3, 2012
    We depart The Clinic and motor 1-1/2 hours further downriver and up the Amazon’s largest Peruvian tributary, the Napo River. Our guides keep a watchful eye on the river bank for sloths and other wildlife sightings while we, in turn, keep a watchful eye inside the boat on our neighbors, sitting ever so close. Obviously there’s no problem with […]
  • A visit to the local medical clinic. What an incredible, inspirational story! July 27, 2012
    The 6:00 a.m.morning air is warm and moist, but surprisingly pleasant. We have yet to experience any really “hot” days. It’s been mostly overcast, “cool,” and wetter than usual. We had a restful and tarantula-free night. Instead of giant, hairy spiders, we saw a single treefrog, sitting on the edge of a chair eating a moth nearly as big […]