Worku Mulat has provided us with an update on work being done on the church forests of Ethiopia. The PDF below is in the native language of Amharic for local speakers to enjoy.
Read more →Between 2200 B.C. and 1900 B.C., the Habur Plains of northern Mesopotamia turned to desert. Evidence exists 3000 years ago Sahara desert was a grassland where cattle were grazing. Under business-as-usual scenario, Ethiopia, too, is on a path to ecological collapse. The first home to Homo sapiens
Read more →Bryson Voirin, a long-standing TREE Foundation research associate who has devoted much of his research career to sloth ecology, now has a blog in the Scientists at Work section of the New York Times website. Below are links to his first two entries. You can view all
Read more →*** UPDATE *** (10/16/2012): An updated table and other info are available here. Our Ethiopian church forest team has identified these critical church forests for conservation. Now you can have your own biodiversity “save-a-species” legacy, and save a named church forest in perpetuity. These costs include the
Read more →PDF of an article written by Dr. Lowman in The Explorers Journal titled, “Finding Sanctuary – Saving the biodiversity of Ethiopia, one church forest at a time”:
Read more →Thanks to: David Jarzen, University of Florida Meg Lowman, North Carolina State University Susan Jarzen, University of Florida
Read more →Follow Dr. Meg Lowman as she travels to Ethiopia to help save the Church Forests of Ethiopia. Updates will be posted under the Ethiopia category of the CanopyMeg blog as well as on: Ethiopia Trip Sponsors: National Geographic, TREE Foundation, and NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
Read more →The ecology of Ethiopia is vastly understudied and also degrading rapidly due to human activities. Much of the natural landscape has been cleared for agriculture, with one notable exception: the sacred landscapes surrounding churches. These church forests comprise local as well as global “hotspots” as critical conservation
Read more →Dr. Lowman talks about her recent project involving the church forests of Ethiopia: One of my most recent projects involved global conservation of African forests. During January, I traveled to Bahir Dar, Ethiopia,a center of the Coptic or Christian Orthodox churches in this proud country. Working with
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