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We send our heartfelt congratulations to Tompkins Conservation, a Model Conservation Efforts program partner of the Half-Earth Project, for this amazing and important accomplishment. As championed by E.O. Wilson’s goal of Half-Earth, if we conserve half the land and sea, 85% of specie

E.O. Wilson and Paul Simon speak with guests during Biodiversity Days, March 2, 2017 in Durham, North Carolina Biodiversity Days are focused on cultivating awareness and promoting understanding as a key foundation for engagement, action and inspired care of our planet. The theme of Bi

Originally published March 13, 2017 in Mongabay By Justin Catanoso Iconic Musician Paul Simon Announces Tour Supporting Biodiversity In a wide-ranging interview with Mongabay, Paul Simon talks about life on Earth and announces a new 18-city U.S. tour in June 2017 to support global bio

  The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce our upcoming “Biodiversity Days” on March 2nd and 3rd at The Carolina Theatre and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This year’s theme is “Half-Earth.

Writing in Prospect Magazine, Tom Friedman imagines if he were King of the World his ecological plan would be to adopt E.O. Wilson’s vision for Half-Earth, and commit half of the planet’s surface to protected zones. Read Tom Friedman’s article below, and also come hear him discuss his

Originally published by Jeremy Hance in Mongabay, January 17, 2017 One of the greatest biologists since Charles Darwin discusses his plan to save the biodiversity of Earth, and include everyone in the effort Update January 26, 2017: A Mongabay podcast is now available with audio highl

Originally published in The New York Times Book Review, December 25, 2016 The Year in Reading: In this season of giving, we asked some notably avid readers — who also happen to be poets, musicians, diplomats, filmmakers, novelists, actors and artists — to share the books that accompan

In a new series, “Vanishing: The Sixth Mass Extinction,” CNN’s David Mackenzie and Jon Sutter take an in-depth look at the causes of and solutions to the extinction crisis. “We’re entering the Earth’s sixth era of extinction — and it’s the first time huma

This article was originally published in the January/February 2017 edition of Sierra Club Magazine with the headline “Fifty-Fifty”. “A Biologist’s Manifesto for Preserving Life on Earth” By E.O. Wilson   Illustration by Doug Chayka   1 We are pl

  NC Museum of Sciences, Town Hall with Greg Fishel, “Life on Land: Today and in the Future.”   RALEIGH, N.C. — 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