David Seaborg

President, World Rainforest Fund

“I am thrilled to speak at this Forest Innovation Summit to educate people on the need to save rainforests and biodiversity. This is one of my passions. The other is evolutionary biology and my theory on how life creates higher biodiversity. Rainforests are being destroyed at half the size of California every year. They have half of Earth's species, regulate climate, are a source of food and valuable products, and give us half of our medicines."

David Seaborg

President, World Rainforest Fund

David Seaborg is an evolutionary biologist who does scientific research on evolutionary theory. He has written two significant books on his important hypothesis that all species are ecosystem engineers that make their ecosystem better for life and increase biodiversity in natural environments over sufficient time. The hypothesis states that life made the Earth better for life and life increases biodiversity. Organisms created the soil and an atmosphere high in oxygen, and regulate climate, making it favorable to life.

He showed that organisms evolve by feedback and that the genetic code is not optimal for evolution. David Seaborg is a distinguished, active environmental leader, who founded and is President of the World Rainforest Fund (worldrainforest.org), a nonprofit foundation dedicated to saving the Earth’s tropical rainforests and biodiversity. This organization set the record for the most species saved per dollar when it saved a 10,000-acre rainforest in Ecuador that has the highest biodiversity of any ecosystemon Earth. It spends 95% of the donations it receives on saving rainforest. He convinced the Berkeley City Council to pass an ordinance stopping the use of wood from rainforests and old-growth redwood forests in city projects. He wrote a popular poetry book called Honor Thy Sow Bug

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We are building a bridge between the Swedish and Californian Forest sectors and inspiring a dialogue with the potential to influence the future direction of forestry.

Our goal is to stimulate a dialogue between major forestry sectors across the Atlantic, encouraging the exchange of both new and existing innovations.

Forest Innovation Summit

Creating a dialogue between Swedish and Californian forestry sectors in light of the creation of new technologies for crisis management, as seen from environmental, social, and political outfits.