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Canopy Walkway Construction
Supports the construction of canopy walkways that create permanent infrastructure for research and education.
Introducing The Eighth Continent Fund
Despite proven models and decades of progress, access to the canopy remains limited.
We dream of a world where more people are looking up. This is how we plan to make that our reality.
Many of the world's most endangered tropical forests are located in emerging economies that lack sustained funding for conservation. Too often, conservation work is fragmented, spread across short-term projects that struggle to scale or endure.
Women and girls, particularly from underrepresented communities, still face barriers to entering field science. And while many people feel inspired by what's possible, there is rarely a clear pathway to act.
The Eighth Continent Fund was created to solve exactly this.
Donations are handled by TREE Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit — Federal Tax ID (EIN) 65-0904869.
How it works
Access, then action, then stewardship.
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Access
Canopy walkways put the treetops within reach of people who have never been able to get there, starting with women and girls from communities field science has left out.
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Action
Training, equipment and mentorship turn a first climb into a career. Access on its own is a visit; action is what makes it a profession.
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Stewardship
Local and Indigenous leadership holds the forest long after the expedition has flown home. A walkway is infrastructure, and the people trained on it keep using it.
Eighth Continent Fund.
The Eighth Continent Fund is built to scale access for girls to experience participation in nature, especially the treetops. We will offer increased local engagement of ecotourism through canopy walkways as well as successful global forest conservation through education and stewardship.
Access grows. Participation grows. Profession grows.
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Investment in Women & Girls
Invests in women and girls by underwriting the training, equipment, and mentorship required to enter and remain in conservation.
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Local Leadership & First Nations
Prioritizes local and Indigenous leadership, ensuring forests are protected by the communities who know them best.
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Marketing Engine
Includes a built-in storytelling and marketing engine that amplifies these efforts globally, so access doesn’t remain local, it spreads.
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Let’s make the Eighth Continent accessible
This is an invitation to help open access to one of the planet’s most overlooked and most powerful solutions. We are seeking partners who understand that lasting change requires more than awareness. It requires commitment. We’re inviting:
Passing the torch
Thousands of students mentored. Over 15 million kids reached.
Two ways in
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The coalition
Women of the Eighth Continent
Women and girls standing behind the biggest, oldest trees on Earth. Members carry the coalition seal. Referral and invitation only.
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The Eighth Continent Fund
Walkways, training, and stewardship in the world's most biodiverse forests. Contributions are handled by TREE Foundation — this site takes no payment.
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Dr. Meg Lowman · The Eighth Continent