Billionaire Magazine Features Sarasota's Forest Champion Canopy Meg

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Pictured: Dr. Meg Lowman, Executive Director of the TREE Foundation, on canopy walkway in Amazonian Peru, 2017.

Billionaire Magazine, a quarterly print magazine for high net worth influencers and leaders, recently selected global forest champion CanopyMeg, Dr. Meg Lowman, Executive Director of the Sarasota-based TREE Foundation for a feature in its online publication. In the June 19 article entitled "The Scientist Who Discovered 'The Eighth Continent,'" Dr. Lowman discusses the tipping point for Earth's forests, whether or not humans will continue their love affair with nature once the coronavirus pandemic subsides, and reveals her latest undertaking to save global forests: Mission Green.

Dr. Margaret Lowman, known world-wide as Canopy Meg for her efforts to save global forests, is the visionary behind the creation of the canopy walkway in Florida's Myakka River State Park.  She is a global scientist and the Executive Director of the Sarasota-based TREE Foundation, an international non-profit organization dedicated to tree and forest research, exploration, education, and conservation.  A trailblazer in women's involvement in the sciences, Dr. Lowman has made it a priority in her career to nurture female interest in STEM. 

Pictured: Dr. Meg Lowman, Executive Director of the TREE Foundation, on canopy walkway in Amazonian Peru, 2017.

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