FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

spirit bear in its home habitat. © jon rawlinson/creative commons
conservation

The Great Bear Rainforest is safe

The Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world’s largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest, has finally found legal protection and park status.

Seljalandfoss waterfall in Iceland. © RomanSlavik/shutterstock.com
climate care

Pope calls for caring for the Earth

Pope Francis is calling for radical transformation of politics, economics, and individual mindsets and lifestyles to truly begin caring for the Earth.

ancient yew tree in the Yenice reserve, northern Turkey. © Fred Hageneder
botany

The natural history of yew in Europe

A major study of the genetic evolution of European yew reveals the origins and migration pattern of this unique tree, and its response to regional climate.

portrait of a mountain gorilla, Virunga National Park. © Karel Bartik/shutterstock.com
conservation

Protecting Virunga’s mountain gorillas

The uniquely beautiful Virunga National Park famous for it mountain gorillas and its continuing struggle with poaching, civil war, and multinational Big Oil.

logos of the Church in Wales and the AYG in front of the ancient yew tree at Llansoy. Photo © Peter Norton
conservation

Protection for the ancient yews of Wales

There is no legal protection for the ancient yew trees of Britain. With the help of the AYG, the Church in Wales is pioneering a change for the better.

clearfelling site in Romania. © Environmental Investigation Agency
conservation

Romania’s old-growth forests for furniture

Europe’s last extensive old-growth forests are vanishing fast, due to ‘semi-legal’ logging. For cheap wooden products in shops all over Europe (and the UK).

flooded lowlands in Cumbria. © JoJoH/shutterstock.com
conservation

Flooded by ignorance

Subsidized mass clearance of trees and shrubs plus the spreading of maize monocultures, the worst crop for soil erosion, guarantee severe floods downstream.

bumble bee on tree flower. © lava777/fotolia.com
botany

Trees have electric auras

A team at Bristol University found that the flower visits of bees are guided by their ability to detect and ‘read’ the electric fields around the blossoms.

light and shade projections on an old yew tree, Newlands Corner, Surrey, England. © Fred Hageneder
cultural history

‘Operation Yewtree’

When a massive paedophile ring was uncovered in British media business, the police (MET) did not find a more inappropriate name than ‘Operation Yewtree’.

Do You Want To Boost Your Business?

drop us a line and keep in touch

world tree news

Take a break and read all about it

spirit bear in its home habitat. © jon rawlinson/creative commons
conservation

The Great Bear Rainforest is safe

The Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world’s largest remaining tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest, has finally found legal protection and park status.

Seljalandfoss waterfall in Iceland. © RomanSlavik/shutterstock.com
climate care

Pope calls for caring for the Earth

Pope Francis is calling for radical transformation of politics, economics, and individual mindsets and lifestyles to truly begin caring for the Earth.

ancient yew tree in the Yenice reserve, northern Turkey. © Fred Hageneder
botany

The natural history of yew in Europe

A major study of the genetic evolution of European yew reveals the origins and migration pattern of this unique tree, and its response to regional climate.

portrait of a mountain gorilla, Virunga National Park. © Karel Bartik/shutterstock.com
conservation

Protecting Virunga’s mountain gorillas

The uniquely beautiful Virunga National Park famous for it mountain gorillas and its continuing struggle with poaching, civil war, and multinational Big Oil.

logos of the Church in Wales and the AYG in front of the ancient yew tree at Llansoy. Photo © Peter Norton
conservation

Protection for the ancient yews of Wales

There is no legal protection for the ancient yew trees of Britain. With the help of the AYG, the Church in Wales is pioneering a change for the better.

clearfelling site in Romania. © Environmental Investigation Agency
conservation

Romania’s old-growth forests for furniture

Europe’s last extensive old-growth forests are vanishing fast, due to ‘semi-legal’ logging. For cheap wooden products in shops all over Europe (and the UK).

flooded lowlands in Cumbria. © JoJoH/shutterstock.com
conservation

Flooded by ignorance

Subsidized mass clearance of trees and shrubs plus the spreading of maize monocultures, the worst crop for soil erosion, guarantee severe floods downstream.

bumble bee on tree flower. © lava777/fotolia.com
botany

Trees have electric auras

A team at Bristol University found that the flower visits of bees are guided by their ability to detect and ‘read’ the electric fields around the blossoms.

light and shade projections on an old yew tree, Newlands Corner, Surrey, England. © Fred Hageneder
cultural history

‘Operation Yewtree’

When a massive paedophile ring was uncovered in British media business, the police (MET) did not find a more inappropriate name than ‘Operation Yewtree’.

Do You Want To Boost Your Business?

drop us a line and keep in touch