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Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), author of the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act, today introduced a resolution in support of the Half-Earth initiative, a proposal advanced by the late Dr. E.O. Wilson. Wilson, who passed away last year, was a famed biologist credited

Originally published in Flicker Flashes, the Alabama Audubon Newsletter, Spring 2022. Alabama’s Gift—Edward Osborne Wilson (1929–2021) Celebrating the legacy of a conservation legend by Jim McClintock, PhD, Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology, UAB Department of Bi

Edited April 18, 2022. Recently, new inquiry into the papers of E.O. Wilson (1929 – 2021) reveals his correspondence (1978 – 1995) with a discredited racist psychology professor, the late J. Philippe Rushton. The majority of Rushton’s research in this arena has not withstood

This is our moment, and we are seizing it.  The Half-Earth Project took significant action this year to elevate the goal of conserving half the earth to protect biodiversity. Despite the global pandemic, we took our message to a global audience of world-leaders, influential scien

“Esteemed biographer and historian Rhodes warmly portrays Wilson as an ambitious and accomplished biologist, a passionate and influential advocate for identifying all life forms and preserving half of Earth as natural habitat, and a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer… Rhodes also

This article was originally published by Reuters on October 27, 2021. By Tim Mclaughlin and Kanupriya Kapoor The Harvard University scientist who has called for setting aside half the planet as a nature preserve says the slope of human history will always be downward un

This post originally appeared on https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/blog/mapping-half-earth-project/ Walter Jetz, Scientific Chief of the Half-Earth Project shares, “When you lose species, you lose important functions and services,” Jetz adds. “At some point, the key functioning—the

Updated 10/17/21: Watch the event recording The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and Half-Earth Project will feature in a new sustainability event on biodiversity loss by Citi, this week Wed Oct 6. The Citi Global Insights team recently published a ground-breaking report “Bio

E.O. Wilson and Sir David Attenborough will discuss How to Save the Natural World on Half-Earth Day 2021, presented by CBRE. Sir David Attenborough, well known for creating Life, a nine-part documentary on animals and plant life on Earth, and Wilson, generally recognized as one of the

Esteemed naturalist and biologist E.O. Wilson and co-founder of the Half-Earth Project appeared at the 2021 Global Live Concert at Central Park, NY as the guest of legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Simon, who is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the E.O. Wilson Biodiver