This rural school has 415 students who come in 2 shifts. TREE Foundation funded the first books for these students, giving away our book, Beza, Who Saved the Forests of Ethiopia, One Church at a Time. This book, in Amharic, shares a message of the importance of
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Beza, Who Saved the Forests of Ethiopia, One Church at a Time – A Conservation Story is a wonderful story to help bring this message into school and to educate children about the importance of conservation in an accessible way. Promoting conservation through literature is one of the easiest and most important ways that we can create a dialogue with young people about the often abstract and difficult concept of what conservation really means to them.
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Dr. Meg Lowman is one of twenty conservation experts featured in a new book by Lori Robinson and Janie Chodosh. Just in time for Earth Day, Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love is now available on Amazon and in bookstores nationwide.
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Why Are TREE’S BEZA Books Important? Article by Helen Gold As you may be aware, TREE FOUNDATION is selling a book called ‘BEZA’. It’s a great story, about an Ethiopian girl who’s trying to save the forests and the biodiversity of northern Ethiopia in every way that she can. It’s an
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As thousands of festival-goers flock to Coachella over the next two weekends, rock stars are on many minds across the country. But here in San Francisco, I’ve been reflecting on a different kind of groupie-worthy icon — the one and only E. O. Wilson, champion of conservation,
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Excerpt from “Ecoliteracy in informal science education settings” in EcoLiteracy, pp. 474–475: Specific metrics for the status of US science education indicate that the country is losing its competitive edge on a global scale; among nations, the US ranks 22nd in density of broadband internet penetration and
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Below is an excerpt from “What’s Up?”, the International Canopy Network Newsletter Vol. 20, No. 2-3, which contains an interview with Margaret Lowman about Treetops at Risk an anthology about canopy global science, which she co-edited with Soubadra Devy and T. Ganesh.
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Science student Alex Young wrote in to say how he enjoyed Water bear weekend at the California Academy of Sciences and shared this photo of him with his favorite textbook: Methods in Forest Canopy Research. Thanks Alex!
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Dr. Meg Lowman writes about saving the forest canopies of Ethiopia in “What’s Up?” The Newsletter of the International Canopy Network; Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 2013. The International Canopy Network publishes its newsletter quarterly and features articles and content of interest to forest canopy researchers, educators,
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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.,
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