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E.O. Wilson’s latest book Every Species is a Masterpiece is out! It brings together some of Wilson’s most significant writings on the rich diversity of life on Earth, our place in it, and our obligation to conserve Earth’s fragile ecosystems. It also includes a chapt

The following interview with David Quammen was originally published by the Library of America on June 28, 2021. “Engaging, embracing, confiding, and humane”—David Quammen on the work of E. O. Wilson With the just-published Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist

At the Half-Earth Project, we are excited to commemorate E.O. Wilson’s 92nd birthday, his lifetime commitment to understanding and protecting the natural world, and his determination to inspire us to do the same. Dr. Wilson has said, “There can be no purpose more inspiring than

GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FESTIVAL (May 20 – 23) Featuring E.O. Wilson and Paula Ehrlich Join the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and the Half-Earth Project® as we participate in the 2021 Global Biodiversity Festival.  The Global Biodiversity Festival is a virtual weekend for

The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Eden Project are pleased to invite you to save the date for HALF-EARTH DAY® 2021 IN LONDON A live two-day event featuring a keynote with E.O. Wilson, Sir David Attenborough, moderated by Sir Tim Smit, and many more environmental leaders to b

Edward O. Wilson: Biophilia, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist A definitive edition of three masterworks by the Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist. Thirty-two pages of photographs and numerous illustrations throughout.   Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Edward O. Wilson is a re

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 Harv

A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to becom

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 cl

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