The Ethiopian Forest Churches are exactly what the Benedict Option should look like on a conceptual scale: it is not a fleeing from the world but a conserving of the good, true, and beautiful — the ...
In Northern Ethiopia, the natural environment and the spiritual environment are entwined. There are just 1,022 forests that remain in the region known as South Gondar, each of which surrounds an ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Earlier this year, the Gura Ferda forest in southwest Ethiopia was surveyed to assess its conservation potential. By some estimates, wet forests ...
If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has spent the past decade on a mission: preserving, ...
Human disturbance reduces forest density, biomass, and richness of species in sacred church forests of northern Ethiopia, according to new research. Human disturbance reduces forest density, biomass, ...
A delegate stands in front of a backdrop for the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) during the opening of the High-Level Leaders Summit in Addis Ababa, on Sept. 8, 2025. Credit - Luis Tato—Getty ...
Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 37, No. 3, Focus Issue: Mountain Forests and the SDGs (August 2017), pp. 254-262 (9 pages) Forests play an important role in the provision of food and ...
They, in turn, are granted exclusive user rights to that tract. Such a grassroots approach is intended to conserve Ethiopia's remaining forests, which once blanketed upwards of 35 percent of the ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Refugees from Sudan's civil war who fled into neighbouring Ethiopia say they have been forced to move on again and take shelter in a forest and on roadsides after repeated attacks by ...