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 exh
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. T
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