Please welcome our first TREE student leadership fellow. Taylor is our first student officer for TREE, as part of our new outreach to educate young people about non-profit management. Welcome, Taylor. Taylor Jamrok graduated from New College of Florida in 2009 after studying environmental issues, sustainable development,
Read more →Dr. Meg Lowman was a visiting James Martin Fellow at the Center for Tropical Forestry in the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University during spring 2010. During this time, she conducted workshops for Earthwatch Institute at their European headquarters, directed by Nigel Winser (www.earthwatch.org) . She also lectured
Read more →TREE Foundation is celebrating its 10th birthday in 2010, as well as the 10th anniversary of our flagship project, the Myakka River State Park canopy walkway. Over the past 10 years, thousands of visitors have learned about forest canopies by walking through the treetops, and hundreds of
Read more →Would You Know What To Do With A Python? Would You Know What Not To Do? To date, several large Pythons have been reported in Sarasota County. We need your eyes to spot them so we can catch them before they spread further. Python Patrol Workshop Monday,
Read more →Reposted from ncf.edu: Join New Topics New College for a visual tour of the places in the world most affected by climate change, from the poles to mountains and our cities, and some of the actions being taken to combat the warming, presented by Gary Braasch, an
Read more →From Dr. Margaret Lowman (aka CanopyMeg): In less than a week, the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. Abbreviated as UNFCCC or COP15 (which stands for Council of Parties, now in its 15th year), these meetings are highly anticipated by governments, industry,
Read more →The Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme Press Release: GENEVA, September 30, 2009 – Ten leading international figures in science, the environment and exploration will select the first five winners of the recently launched Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme, Rolex announced today. A geographically
Read more →Join CanopyMeg for a life-changing expedition from the mouth of the Amazon towards the headwaters during April 4-20 2010. She will be co-leading a boat excursion in conjunction with The Explorers Club — participants will learn about canopy research, biodiversity, conservation, and medicinal plants along the way
Read more →As part of the 5th International Canopy Conference 2009 (and its subsequent publications), co-chair Meg Lowman is compiling a comprehensive history of canopy access. If you have any special methods that you invented or pioneered, stories worth telling (and re-telling), equipment that deserves recognition, inventions that facilitated
Read more →5/11/09 Update: This is the last call to organize a symposia at the 5th International Canopy Conference being organized by ATREE on “Forest canopies : Conservation, Climate change and Sustainable use†during 25th – 31st October 2009, Bangalore, India, The deadlines for organizing a symposium have been
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