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Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning entomologist Edward O. Wilson answers questions from the audience after receiving the World Ecology Award from the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis Friday night in the Anheuser-Busch Theatre at the Saint Lou

“From Backyard Ant-Watching to World Ecology Award: A Conversation with E.O. Wilson” By Evie Hemphill This article originally appeared on the website for St. Louis Public Radio, April 17, 2018 Edward O. Wilson’s long career has been marked by enormous contributions to the

This article originally was published in The Harvard Gazette, March 29, 2018. By Alvin Powell. Biologist E.O. Wilson and former National Park Service director envision massive conservation effort to stem extinction The extinction of our swimming, trotting, slithering, and flying compa

The Florida torreya is North America’s most endangered conifer, with less than one percent of its population remaining. Now, scientists are mounting a last-ditch effort to save the torreya and are considering using new gene-editing technologies to protect it.  By Janet Marinelli, Marc

E.O. Wilson spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School JFK Forum on March 28. The panel on “Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Future of Conservation in America,” also included Jonathan Jarvis, former Director of the National Park Service, and was moderated by Harvard Professor Linda Bilme

  His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo The President of the Republic of Ghana c/o The Chief of Staff Office of the President Flagstaff House Accra Re: Ghana’s responsibility to protect the globally important Atewa Forest Your Excellency, I am writing to draw your

This article was originally published in The Harvard Gazette. By Amy MacKinnon, Harvard Correspondent March 6, 2018 E.O. Wilson, in his latest book, thinks the combination is overdue Like Raymond Carver’s blind man in “Cathedral,” the entomologist Edward O. Wilson inspires readers to

The Half-Earth Project is ‘unlocking a new era in data-driven conservation.’ The Half-Earth Project has launched online the first phase of their cutting-edge global biodiversity map. This unique, interactive asset uses the latest science and technology to map thousands of species arou

Jillian Tamaki In this March 4, 2018 New York Times Sunday Review opinion piece, E.O. Wilson explains why species are the fundamental level of study that must be used to identify conservation priorities, and how the Half-Earth Project map is leading the way. “The 8 Million S

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one w