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E.O. Wilson Day in Mobile; A special program, introduced by Mobile writer and filmmaker, Ben Raines, will be presented at the Mobile Museum of Art on Friday, October 7, 2022, 5 – 7:30 pm; the program of speakers and filmed selections will be followed by a reception and exhibition opening in the museum gallery. Duke University professor and photographer Alex Harris approached famed naturalist and s

On September 3, 2022, the Half-Earth Project joined a virtual panel, “Shemá: Biodiversity, Franciscans, and the Season of Creation.” The event featured discussion with Paula Ehrlich, President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and co-founder of the Half-Earth Project, Rosa María Ruiz, a prominent Indigenous environmentalist, defender of Madidi National Park i

The field manuals, books, and various notebooks of the late E.O. Wilson have found a home at the Paint Rock Forest Research Center in Alabama, Wilson’s home state. In 2018, Wilson visited the center, located within one of the most biologically diverse forests in North America. The forest is a Place for a Half-Earth Future, and part of the Alabama Nature Conservancy’s 4,000-acre Sharp Bi