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Paula Ehrlich, President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, was recently interviewed on the radio station KTHX 100.1 FM (Reno, NV). The interview touched on such topics as: • the Half-Earth Project’s call-to-action to protect half the land and the sea for the rest

19-city tour inspires sold-out crowds, calls for people everywhere to help end species extinction crisis. DURHAM, N.C., June 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Paul Simon has reached the midpoint in his month-long tour to raise awareness of the importance o

This story was originally posted on PRI on May 29, 2017. Writer Adam Wernick A wildlife bridge helps critters safely cross the TransCanada Highway near Banff so that their habitats are connected. E.O. Wilson calls for an extensive, connected network of ecosystems to be reserved for na

Paul Simon appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to talk about his upcoming 19-city tour in June, and how it will benefit the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and support E.O. Wilson’s grand vision for Half-Earth. I read the book and I was very moved by it. What

  On April 22, Dr. Paula Ehrlich, President & CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, presented on the ideas and vision behind the Half-Earth Project at the Smithsonian’s Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, DC. The impact of the inaugural gathering can begin to be m

The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation’s Half-Earth Project has been recognized as a 100&Change Top 200 grant proposal. The MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change grant competition was focused on funding a “bold proposal that promises real progress toward solving a critical prob

Within decades Earth may lose as many as 50% of the species currently living on our planet. To avert ecological disaster, renowned conservationist and Harvard Professor E.O. Wilson has proposed a radical idea in his book Half-Earth: to set aside half of Earth’s land and sea for nature

Our survival is inextricably entwined with the survival of all species that call our planet home, yet our current destructive trajectory is resulting in mass extinction of species and irreparable damage to our world. With his Half-Earth call-to-action, E.O. Wilson has created the grou

E.O. Wilson recently spoke with Frank Graff from “North Carolina Science Now” about Half-Earth. Watch a segment from their interview below. More about the Half-Earth Project: A Partnership to Save Half the Earth for the Rest of Life The mass extinction of the natural world

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) recently announced the 2017 recipients of the Reed Environmental Writing Awards, saluting “three writers who offer bold visions for revitalizing our cities and saving the world’s species, and who reveal the global and local impacts of