This article provides a good summary about Ethiopia’s ‘Church Forests’. Below is an excerpt from the article quoting Dr. Lowman. Church forests are critical to safeguarding Ethiopia’s fragile biodiversity, yet they are probably one of the least-known and under-funded environmental issues of our time. Deforestation is a major problem in Ethiopia, as it is in […]
Dr. Meg Lowman will now have an occasional nature column in the Charlotte Observer. Read her first article below or at charlotteobserver.com “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Spring inspires growth, energy and love. Temperate plants, with their vernal patterns of flowering, fruiting and leafing, serve as a reliable calendar for nature’s […]
From The FT magazine: Dining with the Colombian ambassador at his London residence is a challenging culinary adventure – and not for those of a delicate constitution. Mauricio Rodríguez Múnera is a renaissance man, with a background in business and journalism. He is partial to sharing his passion for Atta laevigata, an exotic leaf-cutter ant, […]
Below is from the ESA 50th Anniversary Cameo Series week’s cameo – “Out on a Limb – Research in Australia’s Forest Canopies” by Meg Lowman, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina State University: My career was not conventional; I climbed trees, and allegedly became the first “arbornaut” studying Australian rain forests. I feel […]
Tefere Gebre, born in Debre Tabor, thanks Dr. Lowman for her blog posts about Ethiopia. It gives him much hope for Ethiopia’s future well-being. Tefere Gebre writes: I was born in Debre Tabor. I now live in San Diego, CA. I left DT when I was 14 years old. Reading your blog post was one […]
When people see the lecture about Ethiopian church forests, they are inspired about this incredible resource and how to save it. Here is one free-lance writer who took the conservation message to heart, and wrote her own article about our project: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2011/02/25/church-forest/ Update: BoingBoing has a post mentioning the PLoS article here.
Videos taken in India while doing canopy conservation & outreach:
From The Assam Times: Globally renowned expert on forest canopy ecology, Professor Margaret Lowman of North Carolina State University, USA has underlined the need for undertaking research on forest canopy in the North East India. Addressing a Aaranyak-ATREE sponsored seminar on United Nations Year of the Forest : Inspiring new stakeholders to reverse deforestation at […]
From The Hindu: Meg Lowman does in a day what most of us would be wary to try once in a lifetime: climbing the tallest trees in the world’s great rainforests, often spending a night under the canopy. When Dr. Lowman — or Canopy Meg as she is affectionately called — entered the rarefied field […]
From Express Buzz: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: You don’t have to be a Tarzan to swing around the tree-tops in the dark tropical forests. Margaret Lowman, the mother of canopy biology, along with representatives of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), was in town this week to introduce the concept of canopy walkways to the […]
