The ancestral tree, father of life, created the earth and the biosphere.
Its existence is necessary for the health and growth of all younger beings in the forest.
Vigorous forests support the populations they coexist with, stabilizing climate and biosphere of those nations
that protect them.
This is why we search for the oldest trees and measure the highest.
We want to know them, defend them, treat them and respect them.
The scientific responsible: Andrea Maroè
Ecuador is one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity per hectare of the world, and its Yasunì
National Park is a must for all those ones who love nature ,animals and trees.
We couldn’t do anything but fall in love with it.
Travelled distance: 2500 km
Duration of expedition: 40 days
N° of measured trees with laser: more than 300
N° of climbed trees: 12
The tallest tree: 52,63 m
The biggest tree: 30,10 m girth
The oldest tree: more than 400 years
Country: Ecuador
Site: Riserva Kichwa Campo Cocha, Riserva Waurani Gareno, Rio Napo da campo choca a puerto salazar, Area Centro sperimentale Tiputini (Parko Nazionale Yasunì)
60 million trees in Italy, the Great Green Wall of Africa, our forests devastated by Vaia. What do they have in common? Our active help and participation of our volunteers!
The project 1 tree x 4 seasons aims to make known to small groups of boys and/or adults the same tree in the four different seasons, observing it, touching it, listening to it, smelling it and climbing it safely.
An adventure, a journey into the green world that surrounds us. Discover the older trees to get to know them and look at them closely. Every month we will organize a meeting with one or more of these living beings in the woods and parks of our wonderful region.
The Giant Trees Foundation, with its project "Give birth to a new wood", has devised a series of initiatives to rebuild some woods for experimental purposes. This includes a series of innovative Forest Summer Schools aimed at national and foreign agricultural (technical or professional) institutes, which enable young people to acquire knowledge, experience, manual skills and valuable information for their professional future in forest management.
The scientific spring at the Botanical Garden of Padua, with a program of events and activities in digital during the week in which nature and biodiversity are celebrated.
THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
One day a flower just bloomed lost a petal, which, light and slow, slipped towards the ground, almost mischievous, going to settle near a leaf.
...I had to go back to the origins. To the Earth. To this pure, sweet and wonderful Mother.
The Guidelines for the care and safeguard of the Monumental Trees by MIPAAFT have been recently updated and approved by decree of 31 March 2020 n. 1104.
After the acceptance of the preliminary Atlas of bats of Friuli Venezia Giulia for the publication in the journal Gortania Botanica-Zoologia, a dangerous pandemic has exploded due to a group of viruses very heterogeneous but widely spread among bats.
GTF’s real mission in Ecuador, as we learned yesterday from the lesson of Dr. Andrea Maroè, is not only climbing the largest trees but through this activity measure them, know them, study them and collect a series of indicators that can give us valuable information on the architecture, mechanics and biodiversity of these giants.... and let us understand how these wonderful trees should be regarded as one of the best things in the world.
