Vanessa Wassenar has been named the new president of TREE Foundation’s Board of Directors. Vanessa has been an active member of the board for several years; her three-year term began January 1, 2024. Vanessa will work closely with Executive Director Meg Lowman to guide the board in
Read more →Animals: the World’s Best Reforesters! A recent study in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences journal discovered that animals of all kinds play a key role in reforestation! By focusing on a deforested area of rainforest in Central Panama over 100 years, the researchers
Read more →As part of her participation in the National Geographic Explorers Club Mentorship Match Program, TREE Foundation Executive Director Meg Lowman is mentoring Mai Fahmy. Mai is a Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences at Fordham University. Her research focuses on assessing biodiversity levels in Madagascar using leech-derived iDNA
Read more →TREE is happy to share the following guest blog from two New College of Florida researchers. Caring for life’s little things: Why we need to understand and protect microbes in our soils By Ky Miller and Dr. Erika Díaz-Almeyda Chock full of billions of ancient and microscopic living
Read more →The wonderful new memoir from Meg Lowman, executive director of the TREE Foundation is days away from publication. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us, will be published August 10, 2021! The Arbornaut is much more than the story of another
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TREE Foundation Executive Director Meg Lowman, Mission Green Science Advisory Member Peter Raven, and TREE Foundation Research Associates Dr. Anthony Ambrose and Wendy Baxter, are all featured in a special issue of the scientific journal Plants, People, Planet, from New Phytologist Foundation. This special issue was published
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