The Sarasota Film Festival is showcasing “A Woman Who Climbs Trees,” a documentary about Sarasota forest champion Dr. Meg Lowman (aka Canopy Meg) as an official selection for viewing during its 2020 Virtual Sarasota Film Fest, which runs through May 10. Directed by 2017 Ringling College of
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To celebrate Earth Day, CanopyMeg and Sylvia A. Earle are teaming up on Mission Green and Mission Blue! From the Miami Hearld: Ten years ago, Earle launched Mission Blue to inspire action to explore and protect the ocean, which now features more than a hundred “Hope Spots,”
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TREE Foundation is grateful to National Geographic for finding biodiversity surveys in endangered Ethiopian church forests. Read about our herpetology expedition, and help us save the last 3% forests (aka Noah’s Ark) fragments in Ethiopia. (Hi-Res Version)
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TREE Foundation’s peripatetic Exec Director Meg Lowman is featured in the current issue of SRQ Magazine — answering questions about everything from Oreo cookies to Singapore to who she’d want to have as guests at a last supper. Read it. Laugh. Then, if you want to help
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via West Coast Woman: Dr. Lowman, Director, TREE Foundation, and National Geographic Explorer, explains Elizabeth’s vision. “Elizabeth is a visionary for the planet. She recognizes that no amount of funding for cultural activities or social services will improve our quality of human life unless we take care
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December 10, 2019 / Sarasota, FL — The Sarasota, Florida-based TREE Foundation’s efforts to save the “church forests” of Ethiopia were highlighted in a short film published by The New York Times as part of its award-winning Op-Docs (opinion documentary) series. The work of independent filmmaker Jeremy
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Moore’s three-year term begins in 2020; Two New Board Members Named November 5, 2019 / Sarasota, FL — Sarasota conservationist and philanthropist Elizabeth Moore has been named president of the TREE Foundation, an international non-profit organization based in Sarasota dedicated to tree and forest research, exploration, education,
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From OnlyInYourState.com: Florida’s wilderness areas are so gorgeous that they deserve to be explored, and sometimes getting up close and personal on foot is the best way to do it. What are you waiting for? Lace up those hiking boots and check out these eight trails in
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From baliparafoundation.com: The Balipara Foundation in association with Mahila Shakti Kendra, 134 Ecological Task Force, Assam Investment Advisory Society, Forest Department, Assam and Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission planted over 2,84,722 trees in 78 villages in Balipara today to celebrate Van Mahotsav. The initiative saw participation from
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Article from www.nature.com: Ecologists are working with the nation’s Tewahedo churches to preserve these pockets of lush, wild habitat. If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has
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