CONSERVE A CHURCH FOREST! This unique opportunity not only reduces your carbon footprint, but also saves biodiversity, fresh water, natural medicines, pollinators, and insures the future spiritual heritage of an African nation. Ethiopia is not only the home of the origin of humankind but also the world’s
Read more →Click on the image below to access a Prezi presentation tour by Ian Lawford of his draft proposal for alternative practicum canopy climb:
Read more →Tree Climbing Planet Overview Tree Climbing Planet offers a variety of courses and adventures focusing on technical tree climbing techniques to explore our planet’s rooftop. Our distinctive courses provide participants with in-depth, hands-on learning skills that deliver the confidence needed to go out and climb wild trees
Read more →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
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The Max Planck Institute, under the leadership of scientist Dr. Martin Wikelski, has mapped the migration of European storks. Some of the radio-collared birds have roosted in our Ethiopian church forests! This amazing discovery means that church forests not only conserve African biodiversity, but play an important
Read more →Annual Student Award for the Appreciation for the Biology of Insect Pests We are proud to announce the winners for the year 2012. Over 20 submissions were received from students all around the world, all works of great passion for insects, full of intriguing discoveries. The quality
Read more →E.O. Wilson’s Global Town Hall A discussion with one of the greatest scientists of our time WHO: Edward O. Wilson: world-renowned Harvard biologist, mentor of generations of scientists, champion of environmental conservation, and YOU: students, educators, scientists, conservationists, photographers, storytellers, and engaged inhabitants of planet earth. WHAT:
Read more →Thanks go out to Grace for such a wonderful idea and to everyone that donated to the TREE Foundation for Ethiopia Church Forest conservation! Happy Birthday Grace!
Read more →“CanopyMeg” Lowman lectured at Jimma University in Jimma, Ethiopia during early October, and is pictured here in dialogue with the science faculty discussing possible collaborative efforts between USA and Ethiopia. Issues of overlap include ecotourism, forest conservation, women in science, student exchanges, and use of virtual technologies
Read more →Methods in Forest Canopy Research by Margaret D. Lowman, Timothy D. Schowalter, and Jerry F. Franklin is now available for purchase! Order Online at ucpress.edu and for a 20% discount use source code 12M0402 (Discount only available on books shipped to North America, South America, Australia, and
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