The churches of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church—the dominant religious group in Ethiopia, with nearly 50 million members—were almost always nestled in patches of vibrant, shady forest.

SCRIPT - CHURCH FORESTS OPENING CREDITS Dr. Alemayehu Wassie (VO) In Ethiopian Orthodox teaching, a church–to be a church–should be enveloped by a forest.

The Ethiopian Forest Churches are exactly what the Benedict Option should look like on a conceptual scale: it is not a fleeing from the world but a conserving of the good, true, and beautiful ...

Thus, it goes on to explain, “the forest is a form of symbolic protection; it provides respectful ‘cover’ or ‘clothing’ for the church.” In several interviews, Ethiopian Orthodox ...

The church forest is covered with many large, ancient trees, some found only in Ethiopia. ... Part of these unique traditions are the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Forests, ...

There are just 1,022 forests that remain in the region known as South Gondar, each of which surrounds an Ethiopian Orthodox Church. ... The stark edge between a church forest and agricultural land.

Culturally sensitive conservation approaches needed to protect Ethiopian church forests Date: March 6, 2019 Source: PLOS Summary: Human disturbance reduces forest density, biomass, and richness of ...

SCRIPT - CHURCH FORESTS OPENING CREDITS Dr. Alemayehu Wassie (VO) In Ethiopian Orthodox teaching, a church–to be a church–should be enveloped by a forest. It should resemble the garden of Eden ...

I was in a ‘sacred forest’, more than 1,000 of which are scattered across the landscape in a near perfect lattice, each protecting a traditional Ethiopian Orthodox church at its centre.

Mountain forest plants have a limited capacity for migration because altitudinal gradients usually set strict limits to plant species’ ranges and often present physical barriers against dispersal.