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Esri Commits Technology and Expertise to Initiative Protecting Biodiversity Esri, the global leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, today announced its partnership with the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and will be providing the mapping and analytics capabilities of the ArcGIS platform to the foundation’s Half-Earth Project. This&nb

This editorial by Thomas Lovejoy appeared in Science Advances on May 6. The first official report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), released on May 6th in Paris, provides the first modern authoritative assessment of planetary biodiversity and related contributions of nature to people (CNP) – dubbed ecosystem services. Ecosystem service

“Wilderness settles peace on the soul because it needs no help; it is beyond human contrivance.” – E.O. Wilson E.O. Wilson coined the term “biophilia” to describe the natural human “urge to affiliate with other forms of life.” People innately connect with the natural world. “The natural world is a refuge of the spirit,” Wilson has said. Spending time in nature has been shown to have positive