Church Forest Conservation — progress for 2014
November 4, 2014
Thank you to all who have contributed to save these forests!
Thank you to all who have contributed to save these forests!
NEW CHURCH FOREST CONSERVED! The church forest called Wonchet, located outside of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia is almost entirely walled, thanks to donors of TREE Foundation.
Alemayehu provides this update on the church forest sites: 1. Group 1: Already started projects Woji and Debresena. This is still in progress. 2. Group
Bloomberg Businessweek interview with Dr. Meg Lowman regarding the church forests in Ethiopia. Article written by Manuela Hoelterhoff in Bloomberg News: Conservation biologist Margaret D.
Dr. Alemayehu Wassie provides an overview of the church forest project in Ethiopia. View PDF.
Dr. Lowman’s article originally posted in calacademy.org: I’m swallowing mouthfuls of dust each day driving long distances through a landscape parched by East Africa’s annual
Article from Deutsche Welle (DW) that provides an excellent summary of TREE Foundation and Dr. Lowman’s conservation efforts in Ethiopia: In the highlands of Ethiopia efforts are
Worku Legesse, Associate Researcher of the Tree Foundation, co-published the following article. The final version of the article has been published in the Journal of
Dr. Margaret D. Lowman, research professor in the College of Sciences at North Carolina State University and senior scientist at the North Carolina Museum of
Abstract: The northern Ethiopian landscape is dotted with small patches of church forests that are religious centers for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church (EOTC). These