The Conservation Value of Ethiopian Church Forests

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Dr. Neville Winchester, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3N5 Alameyuhu Wassie Eshete, Forestry Department, Bahir Dar, EthiopiaMeg Lowman, PAMS, North Carolina State University, USA Introduction Ethiopia is experiencing continual deforestation, and could lose its remaining afro-montane forests within the foreseeable future. In

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Ecological disaster in Ethiopia

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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

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Bryson Voirin’s blog in the NYT

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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

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Helping Save Ethiopian Church Forests

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*** 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

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Conservation of Ethiopia’s Church Forests

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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

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