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Conservation in India — Kids helping conserve their environment!

CLIC Abroad changes lives at photo workshop in Pragpur, India
by Tom Grant, Ph.D.
Children Learning International Cultures Abroad (CLIC Abroad) recently brought the learning power of the digital image to more than 50 middle school children in Pragpur, India. Thanks to partners such as Museum of National Science

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Royal family are nature lovers

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From New Straits Times:
The conservation of wildlife and its habitat is something close to the Johor royal family’s heart.
In a recent “Wildlife Conservation Awareness Day: Save Wildlife, Save Life” forum, the Sultan of Johor’s consort Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris Shah said that creating awareness of

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“The Church in the Forest” in The Tablet (December 2010)

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This article from the December 2010 issue of The Tablet is about the Ethiopian Church Forests:

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Five Questions with Canopy Meg

Meg Lowman in trees

From The Abstract:
Meg Lowman is the director of the Nature Research Center at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and a research professor at NC State. She has conquered the canopy of the rainforest, and opened up an entirely new world to scientific discovery. She’s just published

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Two new species of oribatid mites from Ethiopia

Sergey G. Ermilov1, Neville N. Winchester, Margaret M. Lowman & Alemayehu Wassie
2012. Two new species of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Ethiopia, including a key to species of Pilobatella. Systematic & Applied Acarology 17(3): 000–000.
Abstract:
Two new oribatid mite species, Austrocarabodes (Uluguroides) kluttzi Ermilov, Winchester, Lowman & Wassie

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View from the Top – Interview with Margaret Lowman in Nature India

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From June 2012 Nature India:
American tree top specialist Margaret Lowman, on a scholarship to India, is hoping to build canopy walkways here. Her aim: using ecotourism to boost conservation. Vijaysree Venkatraman chats up the canopy scientist nicknamed “Einstein of the Treetops“.

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Balancing Economy and Ecology in Brazil

by Meika Jensen
Brazil is home to the Amazon rain forest, a unique ecological expanse that makes up close to 30 percent of the Earth’s remaining tropical rain forests and provides habitat for thousands of native plant and animal species. Unfortunately, over the past 40 years,  20 percent

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The Clock is Ticking: Countdown to the Opening of the Nature Research Center Begins

From prweb.com:

“Raleigh’s New World” highlights 24 Days of Deals and a Trip to the Amazon in celebration of the opening of The Nature Research Center, an innovative 80,000-square-foot wing of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. This new museum will bring research scientists and their work

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Forest Health Linked to Human Health

TREE Foundation research associate, Dr. Worku Mulat, continues to pursue environmental health in Ethiopia. Read this new publication:

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Uniting Church and Science for Conservation

Published in the journal Science on February 24, 2012:

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