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Less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life,” a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet and is a source for the Half-Earth Project® map, Yale researchers have created a map of where life has yet to be discovered.  For Walter Jetz, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale who spearheaded the Map of Life project, the new effort

“If you can read but one book on maintaining species diversity, then please read Edward O. Wilson’s Half-Earth, Our Planet’s Fight for Life.  Starting a contest between the current crises is not particularly wise, but it may be necessary to escalate it,” writes science journalist, Fritz Habekuss, in the German magazine, Die Zeit.  “The fact that the loss of biologi

E.O. Wilson, founder of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, has often shared that it was his upbringing in the swamps and forests of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, along the Mobile River, that kindled his love of the natural world. Though he left Alabama for a college education at Harvard, his roots remain firmly in the delta. Growing up, little did he know that Alabama holds more biodiversity than