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A LOOK BACK: This 2017 article is posted by kind permission of the Geographical Magazine www.geographical.co.uk by Nigel Winser Nigel Winser meets the 87-year-old ‘father of biodiversity’ fresh from his keynote talk at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai‘i. His message is clear – we are not doing enough to safeguard nature for our own future, hence his plea for a new age of taxonomic fie

Eco-toxicologist Christy Morrissey on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Learn from an active research eco-toxicologist about how relevant Rachel Carson and Silent Spring is for her science, her conservation work, and her teaching. Christy Morrissey on Saving the Biodiversity of Farmlands Christy Morrissey discusses her eco-toxicology work in an intensely active agricultural region where biodiversity h

Image of E.O. Wilson by Dave Zoboski. In Part II of the “Love Nature: The Biophilia Podcast,” E.O. Wilson explores his concept of Half-Earth, a call to protect half the Earth’s land and sea in order to manage sufficient habitat to reverse the species extinction crisis and ensure species have the space they need to thrive. Hear how the Half-Earth Project is bringing this vision to life. List