A new species of water bear was discovered by our NSF REU team of mobility-limited students in the canopy – in a Kansas OAK tree! It illustrates how new discoveries can happen – even in our own back yards. Stay tuned for more details. Learn more:
Read more →TREE is happy to announce the successful purchase and conservation of this forest tract adjacent to Lake Tamba in the Congo, by our sister group Go Conscious Earth! Godi Godar writes to tell us about these wonderful photos: First photo: in nkoso village, met the chef and
Read more →Lydia Jo Ball writes: I recently graduated from Colby College, Maine, with my Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science. I am passionate about research questions concerning behavior, speciation, and natural history. During my undergraduate years, I studied amphibian and insect diversity, amphibian epibiotic bacteria, amphibian resistance to
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An international research team involving faculty from Bahir Dar University, North Carolina State University, and Colgate University seeks a one-year Research Fellow who focuses on the human drivers of land-use change. The Research Fellow’s primary duties will be to conduct fieldwork in the South Gondar region of
Read more →Below is the latest tardigrade workshop schedule for REU Canopy Explorers during August 4-10: REU Student Schedule – August 4-10, 2013 Activity MNS staff Where Sunday 4 Aug 13 3:26 PM Arrive in Raleigh, Check-in Clarion Meg, Cindy RDU/Clarion 6:00 PM dinner at 518 Monday 5 Aug
Read more →Woji church forest now has walls. In 2013, the local people worked with their priests to make a conservation wall around this forest. TREE Foundation made a donation to the church to thank them for their stewardship. Alemayehu provides this update: The last three days I was
Read more →Treetops at Risk Challenges of Global Canopy Ecology and Conservation M. Lowman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA; S. Devy, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and, Bangalore, India; T. Ganesh, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and, Bangalore, India (Eds.) 2013, XIX, 444 p. 100 illus.,
Read more →Rebecca Tripp’s testimonial, with photos, about choosing and participating in the REU Canopy summer research program: Growing up on the rugged coast of Maine, with mountains, fields, forests and wildlife around every turn, I developed a deep love of nature at a very young age, and a
Read more →Some photos sent from Kinshasa who is working to preserve the rainforest in the Lac Tumba region of the Congo via the Go Conscious Earth project:
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