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  Update: September 2, 2015—Juror Selections Announced! Hetty Baiz (USA) Elizabeth Bajbor (Poland) Bengston+Wetherwax (USA) Bec Bigg-Wither (Australia) Don Cooper (USA) Donna Davis (Australia) Gina Duque (Canada) Michael Felber (USA) Jon Goldman (USA) Angela Gonzalez (USA) Jaden

The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival (JHWFF), the premier event of its genre, has announced the 2015 finalists for its 13th biennial Festival. Winners will be unveiled in Jackson, Wyoming at the Grand Teton Awards Gala on Thursday, October 1st, 2015. The awards are one part of a fi

Photograph courtesy of Aspen Center for Environmental Studies / MarySue Bonetti. This summer E.O. Wilson was the 2015 honoree and keynote speaker at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) “An Evening on the Lake” event. Over 200 nature lovers and leaders from around the cou

“So, now I will confess my own blind faith. Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings, or at least the strong beginnings of one…. out of an ethic of simple decency to one another, the unrelenting application of reason

A Portuguese-language edition of E.O. Wilson’s book, A Window on Eternity: A Biologist’s Walk through Gorongosa National Park, is now available. A book launch was held this past spring in Porto, Portugal. Read more below about this remarkable book. Greg Carr at the launch of the

Crawling to Order the Altadena Bug Club By Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star-News I interviewed the founder of the Altadena Bug Club Monday afternoon, and I’m afraid that it wasn’t but a few minutes into our confab before I had gone native, throwing journalistic integrity to the wind. Becau

“National Parks Act as Living Laboratories: Why Science Matters to National Parks and How National Parks Help Science” By Rachel Hartigan Shea, National Geographic BERKELEY, California—The national parks weren’t established with science in mind. When the National Park Serv

Biodiversity Days are focused on cultivating awareness and promoting understanding as a key foundation for engagement, action and inspired care of our planet. This year, on April 24th and 25th, Edward O. Wilson and other notable scientists and conservationists convened at Duke Univers

E.O. Wilson and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation traveled to the United Kingdom last fall in support of the MEMO Project. Included in the schedule of events was a dinner hosted by HRH Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. In the spring of 2014, the Foundation entered into a colla

Breakthroughs, the magazine of the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources, recently interviewed E.O. Wilson on his bold vision to rescue the planet’s biodiversity.   By Jonathan Mingle, MS ’09 Energy and Resources Group Photography by Edward Caldwell When I called E