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Page Links to Don Perry at GreenPolicy360

A Scientist Ascends via a first-of-its-kind 'Canopy Web' into an Unknown Green 'Jungle Above'

Publishing the Explorations and Science about "the Jacques Cousteau of the Rainforest"

Appreciating Life on Earth and Protecting, Preserving the Commons

• https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/forests-and-climate-change

Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth

Steven J Schmidt (SJS), GreenPolicy360 Editor:

Many years ago, I came to know and represent Don Perry. He remains an exceptionally brave, athletic, and visionary soul. Don was one of the very first explorers to go where no one had gone before in the modern world with the tools of science. Don used to say -- we came from up there (pointing to the treetops) -- and "when I'm up there and moving through the trees and the forest life and marveling at it all, 'deep feelings' come back". For over 40 years Don and I have stayed friends and in multiple regions we have advanced earth science and green politics. Don taught me that the 'real jungle' is not so much the picture painted by Hollywood movies, the floor of the jungle and danger, but rather "it's up there", the jungle habitat brimming with life was "up above"... from the tiny little ones, the insects never-before seen by humans, and the 'one-step' snakes (in other words don't get bit by them or else), the birds and their role in propagating the plants, and the flowers and on and on.... Don and his climbing network, a "canopy web", pioneered the ascent into the treetops and the richest biosphere on earth....

And yes, decades on, Don is still at it, up in the canopy, now in Costa Rica.

To Don Perry and the books, magazine articles, the photography, video, and science published around the world that we did where we attempted to show everyone what hadn't been seen before and now was being brought into the light. It was a magic time...

And yes we had a good run when Don was, as I used to say when introducing Don's adventures to publishers and producers, a man with a web 'inspired', like inspiration, 'looking up to the heavens'. Don traveled to rainforests with his invention and then up he went into a vital and life-enabling planet earth biosphere. I imagine it today sort of like an amazing fantasy and he brought back wondrous imagery. Our goal then was to introduce people from around the globe to protecting what's worth protecting, up there, high above the jungle floor. Life on our living earth...

Here is one of the first books. Simon & Schuster. Mid 1980s. It still has a special place on my bookshelf.

SJS: GreenPolicy360 Siterunner

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Rainforest Canopy Don Perry

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest_Canopy_Don_Perry

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