National Trust lecture on hidden value of trees
View(s):Dr. Ranil Senanayake will talk on “Uncovering the Hidden Value of Trees – can they create a new economy to save us?” in this month’s National Trust lecture on Thursday, October 26 at 6 p.m. at the Auditorium of the College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka, No. 6, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7.
Online link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89094373286).
Trees, while accounting for only 1 % of the biodiversity of a forest, provide a critical function in ensuring its sustainability. The lecture will attempt to provide clarity to the concept of ecosystem services of trees and discuss a scientifically logical system that has been initiated in Sri Lanka.
Dr. Ranil Senanayake is a Systems Ecologist trained at U.C. Davis. He has developed Analog Forestry as a rural response to the critical need of restoring the world’s lost forests functions. Today he chairs EarthRestoration p/l in Sri Lanka which works at realizing the value of Primary Ecosystem Services (PES) as a new source of rural wealth.
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