When people see the lecture about Ethiopian church forests, they are inspired about this incredible resource and how to save it. Here is one free-lance writer who took the conservation message to heart, and wrote her own article about our project: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2011/02/25/church-forest/ Update: BoingBoing has a post mentioning the PLoS article here.
Videos taken in India while doing canopy conservation & outreach:
From The Assam Times: Globally renowned expert on forest canopy ecology, Professor Margaret Lowman of North Carolina State University, USA has underlined the need for undertaking research on forest canopy in the North East India. Addressing a Aaranyak-ATREE sponsored seminar on United Nations Year of the Forest : Inspiring new stakeholders to reverse deforestation at […]
From The Hindu: Meg Lowman does in a day what most of us would be wary to try once in a lifetime: climbing the tallest trees in the world’s great rainforests, often spending a night under the canopy. When Dr. Lowman — or Canopy Meg as she is affectionately called — entered the rarefied field […]
From Express Buzz: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: You don’t have to be a Tarzan to swing around the tree-tops in the dark tropical forests. Margaret Lowman, the mother of canopy biology, along with representatives of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), was in town this week to introduce the concept of canopy walkways to the […]
Author, Mary Lowd, fondly recognizes CanopyMeg’s book, “Life in the Treetops,” as an inspiration for her science-fiction story. Ms. Lowd had been researching information about trees and forests when she discovered CanopyMeg’s amazing story about life as a woman scientist in Australia in “the Nineteen Seventies.” The story Ms. Lowd ended up writing is called, […]
An artwork of Meg-as-Canopy by Indian canopy ecology student, M. Paramesh, marks a successful visit to work on India’s critical forest conservation.
An article in DNA India about the launch of Krishnamurthy’s new book, The Fragile Forest: Inside Brazilian Amazonia (which includes a chapter written by Meg Lowman): The Amazon rain forest is contrary to the way it was represented in Hollywood movie Anaconda. If explorer, writer and photographer Bhaskar D Krishnamurthy is to be believed, it […]
From technicianonline.com: As part of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ monthly “Science Cafe,” Meg Lowman discussed the hard facts of the state of the world’s rainforests Tuesday at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh. Lowman, director of the museum’s Nature Research Center and research professor of natural sciences at N.C. State, said the talk centered […]
From technicianonline.com: As part of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences’ monthly “Science Cafe,” Meg Lowman discussed the hard facts of the state of the world’s rainforests Tuesday at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh. Lowman, director of the museum’s Nature Research Center and research professor of natural sciences at N.C. State, said the talk centered […]
