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Olivia Box

explores the areas where climate change, ecology and storytelling meet. An ecologist and writer, she has a degree in forest ecology from the University of Vermont and an undergraduate degree from Hamilton College. In 2021-2022 she was a Fulbright student scholar based in Viterbo, Italy, where she studied UNESCO World Heritage old-growth forests, science communication and the Italian language.
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Protect This Place: Italy’s World Heritage Beech Forests 

Even protected places face threats from climate change and encroaching development. 
August 12, 2022
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Olivia Box
Even protected places face threats from climate change and encroaching development. 

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