4,000 of those ants live exclusively in the forest canopy.

I was interested, and my canopy researcher colleagues have been interested in the dynamics of the canopy plants that live in the forest.

Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine are the principal explorers of the Redwood forest canopy. They're world class athletes, and they also are world class forest ecology scientists.

Scenes of forest destruction, forest harvesting and forest fragmentation, thereby making that intact tapestry of the canopy unable to function in the marvelous ways that it has when it is not disturbed by humans.

Exploring with them the forest canopy has been one of the most lovely things of my existence on Earth.

I'd like to take you all on a journey up to the forest canopy, and share with you what canopy researchers are asking and also how they're communicating with other people outside of science.

What they're doing in the Redwood forest canopy soil hundreds of feet above the ocean, or how they got there, is completely unknown.

Well, when we look out, you and I, over that canopy of the intact primary forest, what we see is this enormous carpet of carbon.

Furthermore, the Panel continues to receive reports that mines are being opened in remote areas under the forest canopy where they are hidden from the air.

Up in the canopy, if you were sitting next to me and you turned around from those primary forest ecosystems, you would also see scenes like this.

Steve Sillett, when he was a 19 year old college student at Reed College, had heard that the Redwood forest canopy is considered to be a so called Redwood desert.

by the elevated canopy

by the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

We consult to the media about canopy questions we have a canopy newsletter we have an email LISTSERV.

These canopy communities are fragile.

By the Canopy Raised High

By the Canopy Raised High

Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy

He saw nests in the canopy at one of our Canopy Confluences in the Pacific Northwest, and created this beautiful sculpture.

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

We've had dance people up in the canopy.

And so we're trying to disseminate information about the importance of the canopy, the beauty of the canopy, the necessity of intact canopies, to people outside of academia.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

The most mysterious part of forests is the upper tree canopy.

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

And Dr. Terry Erwin, in 1983, called the canopy, the last biotic frontier.

He's not collecting plants, he's going to save our equipment on the canopy.

What I do is I bring together scientists and artists of all kinds, and we spend a week in the forest on these little platforms and we look at nature, we look at trees, we look at the canopy, and we communicate, and exchange, and express what we see together.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

And I brought a little segment to give you of Duke Brady's Canopy Rap.

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

So then you look around, you're under a canopy and you say, This is good.

We brought musicians to the canopy, and they made their music and it's fantastic music.

On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

And yet, there are hundreds and hundreds of children in the developed world who never see nature, because they're growing up in concrete and all they know is virtual reality, with no opportunity to go and lie in the sun, or in the forest, with the dappled sun specks coming down from the canopy above.

Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

But then you enter the Redwood canopy, and it's like coming through a layer of clouds.

And some of equipment went with them, on the top of the canopy, to save it.