Fighting climate change by cloning the world’s oldest trees


Meg Lowman continues to advocate for conservation of primary forests with old trees that are enormous carbon storage units, as the best way to ameliorate climate change!

From thehill.com:

Meg Lowman, a forest canopy ecologist, worked alongside Archangel (then known as the Champion Tree Project) when she taught at the New College of Florida 20 years ago. She shares Milarch’s belief in action. “Tree planting is a great thing to do, but it’s a long-term benefit, and it will benefit largely our grandchildren,” she says. Still, “there’s nothing like an old growth forest, and second best is planting trees.”

In the end, Archangel might be as much about spreading the gospel of trees as it is a model for saving them. The organization puts on a Tree School for children to educate them on tree ID, climbing and propagating. “They leave a science class with what took us 20 years to do,” Milarch says.

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