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

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.

Forest Hero Shigeatsu Hatakeyama. © Ryo Murakami/UNU
climate care

Forests ‘activate’ coastal seas

The positive influence forests have on ocean ecology and biodiversity was put to good use by a Japanese oyster farmer who received a UN Forest Heroes Award.

Wangari Maathai. © Green Belt Movement
climate care

Wangari Maathai has died

Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, which so far has planted 51 million trees and trained over 30,000 women, died on 25 September 2011.

Francis of Assisi, oil painting by Lodovico Cigoli, 1597/9. © Creative Commons License
conservation

UK Catholics: The Call to Creation

The historic ‘Call of Creation’ by St Francis of Assisi inspires Catholics today to acknowledge humanity’s role as stewards of nature, not its masters.

Buddhist monks in northwest Cambodia ordaining a tree. © Equator Initiative
climate care

Buddhist monks ordain trees

The monks of the Samraong Pagoda received the 2010 Equator Prize for saving evergreen forest in northwest Cambodia by ordaining venerable trees as monks.

Logo der Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall
climate care

The Great Green Wall of Africa

The Great Green Wall aims to halt the spread of the South Sahara. At 9 miles wide and 4,800 miles long it equals the reforestation of 37 million acres.

Tamarisk trees (Tamarix articulata) in the Sahara. © RosaFrei/istockphoto.com
climate care

Great Green Wall of China is growing

The work on the Green Wall of China began in 1978. So far, forests have been planted in thirteen provinces of China, covering 54 million acres (22m ha).

conifer forest in the Altai Mountains. © Seth Judd
climate care

Hope for the Taiga

An international project started in 2005 to raise awareness for the Russian Taiga, including community-based harvesting of sustainable forest products.

world map: Number of native tree species (2005)
conservation

The global forest situation 2005

Global deforestation continues at an alarming rate. Reforestation with farmed seedlings does not make up for the rich eco systems of old-growth forests.

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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.

Forest Hero Shigeatsu Hatakeyama. © Ryo Murakami/UNU
climate care

Forests ‘activate’ coastal seas

The positive influence forests have on ocean ecology and biodiversity was put to good use by a Japanese oyster farmer who received a UN Forest Heroes Award.

Wangari Maathai. © Green Belt Movement
climate care

Wangari Maathai has died

Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, which so far has planted 51 million trees and trained over 30,000 women, died on 25 September 2011.

Francis of Assisi, oil painting by Lodovico Cigoli, 1597/9. © Creative Commons License
conservation

UK Catholics: The Call to Creation

The historic ‘Call of Creation’ by St Francis of Assisi inspires Catholics today to acknowledge humanity’s role as stewards of nature, not its masters.

Buddhist monks in northwest Cambodia ordaining a tree. © Equator Initiative
climate care

Buddhist monks ordain trees

The monks of the Samraong Pagoda received the 2010 Equator Prize for saving evergreen forest in northwest Cambodia by ordaining venerable trees as monks.

Logo der Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall
climate care

The Great Green Wall of Africa

The Great Green Wall aims to halt the spread of the South Sahara. At 9 miles wide and 4,800 miles long it equals the reforestation of 37 million acres.

Tamarisk trees (Tamarix articulata) in the Sahara. © RosaFrei/istockphoto.com
climate care

Great Green Wall of China is growing

The work on the Green Wall of China began in 1978. So far, forests have been planted in thirteen provinces of China, covering 54 million acres (22m ha).

conifer forest in the Altai Mountains. © Seth Judd
climate care

Hope for the Taiga

An international project started in 2005 to raise awareness for the Russian Taiga, including community-based harvesting of sustainable forest products.

world map: Number of native tree species (2005)
conservation

The global forest situation 2005

Global deforestation continues at an alarming rate. Reforestation with farmed seedlings does not make up for the rich eco systems of old-growth forests.

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drop us a line and keep in touch