

Videos taken in India while doing canopy conservation & outreach:

An artwork of Meg-as-Canopy by Indian canopy ecology student, M. Paramesh, marks a successful visit to work on India’s critical forest conservation.

Brian Malow (science comedian) and Canopymeg (geek scientist), speakers at ScienceOnline 2011!

How do you explain the extraordinary and secret world of rain forest biodiversity to students who have never seen a rain forest? Perhaps we start

Dr. Lowman will be speaking at the Bethlehem United Holy Church in Durham, NC on Martin Luther King Day (1/17/2011). Details are in the flyer

Check out the video of Dr. Lowman and the other members of the jury of the Rolex Awards for the Young Laureates Programme: http://young.rolexawards.com/about/meet_the_jury

On Tuesday, October 19th, BBC Radio 4 will include a segment about the Ethiopian Church Forests. For more information see the BBC Radio 4 website:

Neville Winchester provides us with a sample picture of one Berlese trap extraction taken from a Church Forest in Ethiopia (click for a larger image):

Photos from Ethiopia taken by Phil Harpootlian: [slideshow id=27]

One of scientist Neville Winchester’s samples, illustrating the biodiversity of Ethiopian church forests (click for a larger image):