Meg Lowman, Executive Director of the TREE Foundation and founder of Mission Green, has been awarded The Explorers Medal for 2023 from The Explorers Club, a multidisciplinary, professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and resource conservation.
1) CLEANING THE ATMOSPHERE: Canopy walkways are typically constructed in heavily forested areas populated with mature trees. Trees, especially fully-grown mature trees, are literally the
TREE Foundation Executive Director Meg Lowman and TREE board member DC Randle are leading a weeklong excursion to Peru in July 2023! The trip will
In September 2021, the UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme officially recognized the Habitat at Penang Hill as a biodiversity hotspot and biosphere reserve. The canopy walkway at Penang Hill was completed in 2017 as part of an effort to protect the 130-million-year-old Malaysian deciduous rainforest all around Penang.
Bravo to Jared Farmer, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania, for his insightful and passionate call for “perdurance” in his October
International environmental advocate and businessman Harry Cockrell has joined the TREE Foundation’s MISSION GREEN Scientific Advisory Board. Mr. Cockrell is the Chairman of The Habitat Foundation,
Big News! TREE Foundation’s Mission Green initiative has received a matching funds pledge for $25,000 from Sherri Manning and Brady Johns! Meg met Sherri and
Mission Green founder and TREE Foundation Executive Director Dr. Margaret Lowman was interviewed by science journalist Amy Lewis for WORLD magazine. Dr. Lowman speaks to a vision “for canopy walkways to encourage stewardship through ecotourism, fostering wonder and excitement for forests.”
A recent TIME article sheds light on the rapid deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon in the first six months of 2022. From satellite imagery, scientists have discovered 1,500 square miles of forest lost between January and June of this year. This deforestation rate breaks all existing records and therefore is uniquely alarming.
MISSION GREEN founder Meg Lowman was interviewed in February 2022 by Robyn Williams for The Science Show produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. During the interview, Meg shared aspects of her 2021 memoir, The Arbornaut — especially from Chapter 12. Listen in as she discusses the critical importance of saving big trees.
TREE Executive Director Meg Lowman’s most recent op-ed, “We must act now to save trees for future generations,” appeared in the print edition of the Sarasota Herald Tribune newspaper
Dr. Meg Lowman’s book, The Arbornaut, has gone international! Recently, the German publication HÖRZU Wissen interviewed Dr. Lowman about her life and research. During the
Meg Lowman Brings Global Expertise to Environmental Nonprofit Based in India TREE Foundation Executive Director Meg Lowman has been elected to the board of trustees
In April 2022, Meg Lowman and TREE Foundation President Elizabeth Moore traveled to the beautiful country of Madagascar for preliminary field investigation and meetings to
What’s the first step in caring and acting to help the world’s forests? TREE Foundation Executive Director and Nat Geo Explorer Meg Lowman, featured in this fabulous profile “How To Be An Arbornaut” in the May 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine, explains the simple steps we can all take as human caretakers of this wild and precious planet.
