Originally published in the New York Times, Dec. 9, 2022 By Catrin Einhorn and Lauren Leatherby WILDLIFE IS DISAPPEARING around the world, in the oceans and on land. The main cause on land is perhaps the most straightforward: Humans are taking over too much of the
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Update to Half-Earth Project Map includes improved resolution with 1KM species richness and rarity layers in North America, a new carbon layer showing how to protect species and address climate change, marine data, and new personalization tools to support policym
Comprehensive, global information on species’ occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. The Half-Earth Project Map which identifies the areas to protect to a sufficient number of speci
The Half-Earth Project Map is getting a major update to improve user experience and provide a finer resolution (~27.5 km), just ahead of Half-Earth Day. The Project Map is a high-resolution, dynamic world map and decision-support tool that guides where place-based species conservation
Less than a decade after unveiling the “Map of Life,” a global database that marks the distribution of known species across the planet and is a source for the Half-Earth Project® map, Yale researchers have created a map of where life has yet to be discovered. For Walter Jet
By Jeremy Malczyk, Michelle Duong, Ajay Ranipeta, Chris Heltne, Walter Jetz of Map of Life, Yale University, and the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Half-Earth Project This article originally in Medium, July 30, 2018 The Significance of Biodiversity Narrow-billed Tody, Todus angus