On September 22, 2021 Executive Director Meg Lowman was interviewed by SRQ Magazine about TREE Foundation’s Malaysian Walkway being officially named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pictured is the Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve in Penang Island, Malaysia. Here is a sneak peek into the article: “Dr. Meg
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I am happy to report that our efforts to create a UNESECO world heritage biological rain forest site in Malaysia are coming to fruition. The nomination will be submitted very soon, and includes over 1500 records of species collected from a biodiversity blitz that I organized in
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Canopy Walkways Provide Treetop Access for International Bio-Blitz in Malaysia In October 2017, canopy pioneer Meg Lowman and the Habitat Foundation brought together an international group of scientists to search for life, high and low, on Penang Hill in Malaysia. Credits Music: Fleslit, In my Place Filming:
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From www.seeker.com: A top-to-bottom “BioBlitz” survey uncovered likely new species, including a ghost scorpion, iridescent fly, bacterium, and multiple water bears. Conducting nature surveys can be grueling, often frustrating work. In forest landscapes, the efforts may necessitate scaling towering trees and, on the ground, turning over 100
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From news.mongabay.com: For the first time ever, scientists have surveyed the rainforest of Penang Hill comprehensively. The 130-million-year old forest is believed to have never been cut before and has remained largely unexplored. Among the exciting discoveries is a potentially new species of “ghost” scorpion, and numerous
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From freemalaysiatoday.com: GEORGE TOWN: Penang Hill will be designated a Unesco reserve in the next few years, thanks to a joint effort by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), an American biological expert and the owners of an eco-tourism attraction there. Leading the team is USM Biology School senior
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10/26/2017 Update by Candace Miller during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: Student Argonaut Hannah Heaster is from Salem, West Virgnia and is a student in Doddridge County Schools. She shared her journal entry from the second week of the Penang Hill BioBlitz, when the team joined entomologist
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10/26/2017 Update by Tabitha Jones during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: Teacher Argonaut Tabitha Jones is from Pennsboro, West Virginia and teaches in Doddridge County Schools. She shared her journal entry from the second week of the Penang Hill BioBlitz in which she recounts her change in
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10/22/2017 Update by Candace Miller during the Penang Hill BioBlitz 2017: Teacher Argonaut Candace Miller is from Brooklyn, New York. She shared her journal entry from the first week of the Penang Hill BioBlitz in which she recounts her experiences birding, stargazing, surveying ants, and searching for
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