Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

Save the rainforest!

A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships.

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

by the elevated canopy

by the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

And the elevated canopy

These canopy communities are fragile.

By the Canopy Raised High

By the Canopy Raised High

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

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

Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy

It may be the next rainforest, in terms of pharmaceuticals.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

81. RainForest ReGeneration Institute, Washington D.C., United States of America

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

We've had dance people up in the canopy.

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

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

So I said, Well, you've got to make a rainforest ice cream.

It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rainforest.

loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species exinctions.

Buy some horses and a cart with a canopy.

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

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

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 most mysterious part of forests is the upper tree canopy.

Conscious of the negative ecological impact of the hurricane on the coastal region and the inland rainforest,

You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the rainforest that just springs back to life.

Several ecosystems in Brazil need to be protected, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic forest.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

and We made the sky a secure canopy and yet they turn away from these Signs.