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Noted biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has been selected to receive the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2016. The award is made to a living, nationally recognized Alabama writer who has made a significant, lifelong contr

E.O. Wilson was recently interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on BBC’s radio show “The Life Scientific” and spoke passionately about the preservation of the planet’s biodiversity: We are by instinct related closely to the survival of our distant ancestors by a driving

After years of civil conflict, baby elephants are a symbol of hope for the parks recovering herds. Gorongosa, Mozambique. Photograph by Joyce Poole. Gorongosa Park: Rebirth of Paradise Brings to Life an Historic Rejuvenation of an African Wildlife Oasis Three-part adventure series air

  E.O. Wilson will be attending the Rock Creek Park 125th Anniversary Gala in Washington, DC on September 26, 2015. The Gala Anniversary will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. at Sidwell Friends School at 3825 Wisconsin Ave, NW. Wilson will be attending the gala as a member of the Green

On September 28 at 7 p.m. renowned sociobiologist and Pulitzer Prize winning author E.O. Wilson will be interviewed by Kirk Johnson, head of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, at the Jackson Hole WILD Festival. Edward Wilson is one of the leading American scientists of our time.

E.O. Wilson — Of Ants and Men will be broadcast nationwide on PBS on September 30 at 9 p.m. (check local listings to confirm broadcast time). “So, I wanted that word — biodiversity — to remind us how little we know about the natural world and of the danger that we destroy it before we

  The Green Prize for Sustainable Literature – co-sponsored by the Santa Monica Public Library and City of Santa Monica’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment – “was established to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality books that

Pioneering minds from the field of biodiversity will be honored on October 2nd by the American Computer & Robotics Museum and Montana State University for their groundbreaking work. An Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award will go to Janine Benyus for her work in

“E.O. Wilson Wants Us to Leave Half the Earth Alone” by Claudia Dreifus was originally published in the September–October 2015 issue of Audubon Magazine. The famed naturalist’s newest book, written from a retirement home, is a provocative and urgent call to save the

Update: The Meaning of Human Existence now available in paperback How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, “W