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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 molecular biologist Sean B. Carroll recently got together for a wonderful conversation, featured in Mosaic. They echoed many of the themes that were present during the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation’s recent Biodiversity Days events — from celebrating the biodiver

By Meg Lowman, Chief of Science and Sustainability, California Academy of Sciences Huffington Post, April 10, 2015 As thousands of festival-goers flock to Coachella over the next two weekends, rock stars are on many minds across the country. But here in San Francisco, I’ve been

“This is the most important scientific report of at least the last decade on the distribution of America’s parks and biodiversity.”—E.O. Wilson A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) reveals that America’s Nat

By Thomas Levy, | March 26, 2015 From UC Berkeley News Center BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Eleven-year-old Jasper Bagley has been buggy about insects since he was 5 and saw the documentary, Lord of the Ants, about Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson, the world’s leading ant ex

The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce our upcoming “Biodiversity Days” on April 24th and 25th at Duke University and the Nicholas School of the Environment in Durham, North Carolina. Biodiversity Days are focused on cultivating awareness and promoting understa

Update: Watch E.O. Wilson’s keynote address, “Mission of the National Park Service and Its Relevancy Today” Berkeley — The University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the National Park Service and the National Geographic Society, look toward the 2016 Nati

A conference focusing on the importance of scientific research in our National Parks for the next 100-years will be held March 25-27, 2015 at UC Berkeley in partnership with the National Parks Service and the National Geographic Society. E.O. Wilson will deliver the keynote address at

Young Women Take on Lion Conservation in Mozambique By Paola Bouley, Projecto Leões da Gorongosa The late Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental activist, Wangari Maathai, once said “It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little th

E.O. Wilson was recently interviewed on KUOW 94.9 FM in Seattle, Washington regarding his latest book, The Meaning of Human Existence. By Marcie Sillman Harvard Professor Emeritus E.O. Wilson has spent most of his 60-year career in pursuit of evolutionary biology. His studies of and w