Dr. Meg Lowman was recently in New Zealand looking at their trees and addressing the importance of forest conservation. Below is an article featuring Dr. Lowman followed by the interview with Wallace Chapman.
Article from radionz:
Dr Meg Lowman is the world’s first ‘arbonaut’ an expert in the field of forest canopy science.
Nicknamed ‘Canopy Meg’, Dr Lowman is a conservation scientist at the Californian Academy of Science.
She was recently in New Zealand looking at our trees and to give a keynote on the importance of forest resilience and conservation.
Dr Lowman says forests are vital to our well-being and time is running out for the world to start taking trees more seriously.
She says the science didn’t really get going until the early 1980s.
“The first canopy walkway was built in Australia in South Queensland in 1985 to try to give people an experience at the top of trees where all the action is.”
Forest canopies remained largely mysterious until this time, she says.
Podcast with Wallace Chapman:
