“If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle,” writes Alison Abbott in Nature. “…These small but fertile oases — which number around 35,000 and are dotted across the country — are some of the last
Read more →Article from www.nature.com: Ecologists are working with the nation’s Tewahedo churches to preserve these pockets of lush, wild habitat. If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has
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Article from nationalgeographic.com and written by Alejandra Borunda: …At an academic conference in Mexico, Wassie met Meg Lowman, an American biologist whose interest was piqued by a presentation Wassie made about the church forests. Lowman invited Wassie to visit her lab to talk more about the project.
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This innovative young lady managed to raise enough funds for half of a gate for an Ethiopian church forest. We are so grateful!
Please join her in helping us to fund the highest-biodiversity forests of Ethiopia, to serve as a “Noah’s Ark” for future landscape restoration in this emerging country that does not have adequate internal funds for science or conservation. Use the DONATE button to make a gift — a lifelong legacy saving the biodiversity of an entire country.
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This rural school has 415 students who come in 2 shifts. TREE Foundation funded the first books for these students, giving away our book, Beza, Who Saved the Forests of Ethiopia, One Church at a Time. This book, in Amharic, shares a message of the importance of
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This year, 3 new walled conservation sites were added to our growing acreage of Ethiopian forests, one of which was funded by UNESCO inside their Lake Tana heritage site, and the other 2 funded by your generous contributions to TREE. We are now over halfway to achieving
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Blast from the Past — citizen science expeditions to the Amazon immerse students, families and citizens in tropical science and conservation. This was our 2006 expedition, find out about our 2019 expedition by signing up for email updates at the TREE Foundation website: https://treefoundation.org/subscribe/ or follow us
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“In all my forest conservation work, I am passionate about always doing something for local women as well as for the trees. This is one example from northern Ethiopia – enjoy!” — Dr. Meg Lowman To Support Ethiopian Women and Forest Conservation please consider making a donation
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