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This article was originally published on National Geographic’s website on October 30, 2017. Washington, D.C., October 30, 2017 Can we conserve half the planet for the survival of all species? Scientists and conservationists at the world’s first Half-Earth Day think we can. Scien

“Biodiversity Research Requires More Boots on the Ground” This article was originally published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 24, 2017 By Edward O. Wilson Our incomplete taxonomic knowledge impedes our attempts to protect biodiversity. A renaissance in the cl

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For Immediate Release: October 24, 2017 Contacts: Susan Holmes, Wildlands Network: susan@wildlandsnetwork.org, 202-329-1553 Paula Ehrlich, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: pehrlich@eowilsonfoundation.org, (215) 847-0920 Derek Goldman, dgoldman@endangered.org, (406) 721-3218 Fritsc

“First Half-Earth Day Offers a Chance to Halt Species Extinction” By E.O. Wilson Originally published on October 23, 2017 by National Geographic. Nature versus the ‘terranauts.’ We are in an extraordinary moment. Awareness of the risks facing our planet is grow

Photo Courtesy National Geographic Visit this page on Monday, October 23 to livestream Half-Earth Day presentations from the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. CONSERVATION IN ACTION: BRINGING HALF-EARTH TO LIFE Afternoon Public Session 2:00–4:00 pm Grosvenor Auditorium H

Paul Simon Gift Supports the E.O Wilson Biodiversity Foundation’s Half-Earth Project Durham, N.C., October 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation today announced that it is expanding the staff and programs of the Half-Earth Project following a substantia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leading Conservationists to Gather in Washington, D.C., to Celebrate Planet’s First-Ever Half-Earth Day Inaugural, All-Day Event on Oct. 23 Features Special Guests, Including Eminent Biologist Edward O. Wilson and Legendary Recording Artist Paul Simon   Durh

“Our Common Ground” By Vincent Stanley Posted with permission of Patagonia, Inc. Most of us can readily name a piece of ground sacred to us as individuals that belongs to every soul in the country. As Americans, regardless of our descent, we share as our greatest inheritan

An eloquent exploration of creativity, The Origins of Creativity grapples with the question of how this uniquely human expression—so central to our identity as individuals and, collectively, as a species—came about and how it has manifested itself throughout the history of our species