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New York City, August 28, 2012—PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, today announced the winners and runners-up of the 2012 PEN Awards, including the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, which celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a ca

Foundation to Expand Worldwide Understanding of the Importance of Biodiversity Chapel Hill, NC – July  10, 2012 – The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a worldwide understanding of the importance of biodiversity and the preservation of our biological heritage, today announced it has named Dr. Paula J. Ehrlich as the Foundation’s President and Chi

Led by E.O. Wilson, a team of scientists, educators, science writers, and wildlife biology students is working in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique this Spring to document a story of transformation in this “Lost Eden” of Africa. This second expedition is gathering the lessons to be learned from Gorongosa about ecology and evolution, and will present Gorongosa as a model ecosystem in