The 8th Continent with Dr. Meg Lowman (2025 Cary Environmental Symposium Week 2)

Join us for a special evening with Dr. Meg Lowman! Known affectionately throughout the world as “Canopy Meg,” she is a global pioneer in forest canopy ecology. She is one of the world’s foremost “arbornauts” — someone who explores and studies the vast forest canopies that make up what Meg has termed the Earth’s “eighth continent.”

Dr. Meg Lowman, nicknamed Canopy Meg and called "The Real-Life Lorax" by National Geographic, has devoted over four decades to exploring the “eighth continent” of the world's treetops. Her research and exploration have taken her to 40 countries, where she works to save forests and also mentors girls. She has published 200 research papers. She built the first public canopy walkway in North America at Myakka State Park in Florida, which is the first public treetop trail. It is a novel suspension bridge and tower providing researchers and visitors with eye-level views of the forest canopy and a spectacular above-the-treetops view of the entire park.

Canopy Meg was the founding director of the Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. Under her leadership, the Daily Planet was funded and built. She oversaw the exhibitions and also hired the staff for the NRC, which was the first museum team in the world with over 50% women scientists.

Her recent successes include partnering to build a canopy walkway in Malaysia which led to designation as a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme site; working with Coptic priests in Ethiopia to save their last remaining forests; and speaking to three million kids each year about trees. Her best-selling memoir, The Arbornaut was published in 2021

Learn more about Canopy Meg here: https://canopymeg.com/

You may also like the following events from Trees for the Triangle:

• Next month, 17th July, 06:00 pm, Second Annual Roots and Shoots Celebration: Volunteer Appreciation Dinner in Raleigh
• This September, 3rd September, 07:00 pm, Laying the Groundwork (2025 Cary Environmental Symposium Week 1) in Cary
• This September, 19th September, 07:30 pm, Homegrown National Park with Doug Tallamy (2025 Cary Environmental Symposium Week 3) in Cary

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