The Our Trees Initiative
The Our Trees Initiative (TOUTI) highlights the importance of trees through the power of stories from many ways of knowing, inspiring actions that help trees and people flourish.
Welcome!
The Our-Trees Initiative (TOUTI) is a resource hub to gather and share the stories people tell about trees and the stories that trees tell people.
We use these stories to inspire, inform, incite actions and evaluate impacts for all people of all kinds, tailoring and communicating them to have meaning for and engaging diverse groups.
National Geographic Live!
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Back by popular demand, National Geographic LIVE shares the stories behind the world-renowned photos and articles of National Geographic.
Throughout human history, trees have provided our most important sources of sustenance, protection, and wonder. Nalini Nadkarni, a tree canopy ecologist, has spent four decades dangling among the branches to study how forests inform our daily lives. Climb in the clouds to experience the magnificent wildlife and incredible science in the vast, hidden worlds suspended above our heads.