Debresena Church forest walls are in progess in Ethiopia, thanks to generous contributions from the global forest conservation community! [nggallery id=30] (photos from Alemayehu Wassie) Help us continue this effort of funding the conservation of Ethiopia’s last forests by donating: Ethiopia Church Forests Conservation Cost Table
Here is some updates on the progress going on to help save the Church Forests of Ethiopia. From De Alemayehu Wassie Eshete: 1. Zahara is in a good progress: they will finish the fence in two weeks. and they have started digging the hole for the latrine. I will send you photos. 2. This weekend […]
Progress is being made in the “Saving the Forests of Ethiopia – one church at a time” project. Below are photos of the Zahara church forest wall under construction: Thank you to TREE Foundation donors who sponsored this wall, to save the forests of Ethiopia! To learn more about how you can help please visit […]
This article provides a good summary about Ethiopia’s ‘Church Forests’. Below is an excerpt from the article quoting Dr. Lowman. Church forests are critical to safeguarding Ethiopia’s fragile biodiversity, yet they are probably one of the least-known and under-funded environmental issues of our time. Deforestation is a major problem in Ethiopia, as it is in […]
Tefere Gebre, born in Debre Tabor, thanks Dr. Lowman for her blog posts about Ethiopia. It gives him much hope for Ethiopia’s future well-being. Tefere Gebre writes: I was born in Debre Tabor. I now live in San Diego, CA. I left DT when I was 14 years old. Reading your blog post was one […]
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.
You may have noticed inconsistencies in the spelling of Ethiopian place names. Spelling is tricky with some Ethiopian names, because the locals use different spellings than what the English-speaking cartography world picks up. Alas, we used various spellings along the way, depending on whether we were working directly with our local partners or if we […]
On Tuesday, October 19th, BBC Radio 4 will include a segment about the Ethiopian Church Forests. For more information see the BBC Radio 4 website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcp4c
In 2008 a series of stakeholder interviews on sacred forests were carried out as a part of the Helsinki University’s Viikki Tropical Resources Institute’s (VITRI) research in collaboration with Ethiopian Wondo Genet College of Forestry. The purpose of the study was to explore the social aspects related to the remnant sacred forest patches in the […]
Neville Winchester provides us with a sample picture of one Berlese trap extraction taken from a Church Forest in Ethiopia (click for a larger image):
