Adult Opportunities

Rooted in Hope: Restoring Cloud Forests with Endangered Trees in Mexico

Learn about the diversity and conservation of cloud forests with visiting scientist Tarin Toledo.

Content Detail

Cloud forests are magical and rare. They develop in mountain ranges in the tropics, in zones that are frequently immersed in clouds. While only occupying between 2 and 8 % of tropical forests, cloud forests host an extraordinarily high level of biodiversity.

Through this presentation, participants will learn how these ecosystems are severely threatened due to their transformation to agricultural land, overharvesting, and climate change, and how local and international collaborators are successfully restoring and recovering endangered species and cloud forests.

This program meets in person at the Arboretum and is presented in English.

Instructor: Tarin Toledo Aceves, PhD, researcher, Instituto de Ecología A.C. (INECOL) in Mexico

Age: 16 and older

Course number: N056

Instructor

Tarin Toledo Aceves, PhD, researcher, Instituto de Ecología A.C. (INECOL) in Mexico

Tarin Toledo Aceves is a researcher at the Instituto de Ecología A.C. (INECOL) in Mexico. She studied biology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM), followed by a master’s in ecology at INECOL and a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Her work focuses on the ecology and management of tropical montane cloud forests. She is dedicated to unraveling the complexities of tree seedling regeneration and enhancing diversity management within these vital ecosystems. At the Mexican Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), she coordinated a national-scale initiative to assess and preserve cloud forests in Mexico. The Rainforest Alliance distinguished her as a Kleinhans Fellow, and she was awarded the Georg Forster Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to advance the management and restoration of secondary cloud forests. She is a National Geographic Explorer and since 2018 has collaborated with The Morton Arboretum in projects aimed at the recovery of endangered tree species. Through these collaborations, she has overseen the successful planting of over 10,000 native trees in Veracruz, Mexico, contributing to the ongoing restoration of cloud forests.

What to Know

This program is held entirely indoors.

Advance registration is required.

Materials for taking notes may come in handy.

Program Schedule

Thursday, September 26, 2024, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Cudahy Room, Administration and Research Center (Parking Lot 1), East Side

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