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Students from the St. Ann School of Bridgeport, Connecticut during their public inventory fieldwork looking for insects at BioBlitz 2013. The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation was a participating exhibitor at the 2013 BioBlitz, held May 17–18, 2013, at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve near New Orleans, Louisiana. A BioBlitz is a 24-hour event in which teams of volunteer sci

The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation (EOWBF) and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) will be embarking on an exciting new initiative beginning in the summer of 2013. Beginning with Ghost Rookeries: Climate Change and the Adelie Penguin (4 minutes, 2013), short videos produced by the EOWBF will be shown at select AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums located in the United States. With the va

E.O. Wilson’s latest book, Letters to a Young Scientist, was warmly reviewed this weekend in the June 2, 2013 issue of the New York Times Book Review. Writer Bill Streever calls Letters to a Young Scientist   “first and foremost a book about passion and the delight of discovery.” Streever, writing in the form of a letter to Wilson—a similar literary device Wilson uses in the book