Where in the world will you be on July 29? Wherever you’ll be, you can still attend our free — and fascinating — Research Update webinar presented by TREE Foundation’s virtual summer interns. Sign up for this free one-hour event, which starts at 5:30 p.m., EST and
Read more →The Tree Foundation is fortunate enough to have four fabulous summer interns working diligently — and virtually — on researching and creating shareable resources to help us all become activists for forest conservation and environmental justice. Please join us Wednesday July 29 — 5:30-6;30 PM EST —
Read more →Written by and illustrations created by Lilia Robinowitz, TREE Foundation Summer 2020 Intern, Williams College Class of 2022 How many species of sloths are there? Six: Pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus), Maned sloth (Bradypus -*torquatus), Pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), Brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus), Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus
Read more →TREE Foundation is grateful to National Geographic for finding biodiversity surveys in endangered Ethiopian church forests. Read about our herpetology expedition, and help us save the last 3% forests (aka Noah’s Ark) fragments in Ethiopia. (Hi-Res Version)
Read more →December 10, 2019 / Sarasota, FL — The Sarasota, Florida-based TREE Foundation’s efforts to save the “church forests” of Ethiopia were highlighted in a short film published by The New York Times as part of its award-winning Op-Docs (opinion documentary) series. The work of independent filmmaker Jeremy
Read more →We’ve now been in the field for about 2 weeks, and have visited 6 different church forests in the South Gondar region. Every day brings new discoveries, underscoring how much there is still to learn about the ecology of these ecosystems. As of this day, we’ve recorded
Read more →Arriving back in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, I was struck by the transformation of the landscape relative to my last visit in the dry season. The barren red soil that once dominated has been replaced with lush green carpets of grass, wildflowers, and burgeoning croplands. I’ve come here
Read more →Ethiopia takes on a 2-pronged approach to deforestation: Saving primary forests with our TREE stone walls, and planting new trees! Article from cnn.com: (CNN)Ethiopia planted more than 353 million trees in 12 hours on Monday, which officials believe is a world record. The burst of tree planting
Read more →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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