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With his keynote “Nature and Climate: transformative approaches for adaptation and climate action”, Walter Jetz, the Scientific Chair of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, joined the High-Level Dialogue on Climate Action in the Americas Summit in September 2021. 

In a recent presentation with Communities for a Half-Earth Future partner The Long Run, Dr. Walter Jetz, Scientific Chair of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, presented Putting Species on the Map.  Dr. Jetz gave a preview of expected developments on the Half-Earth Project

The Society for Conservation GIS Annual International Conference held virtually, July 19 and August 4th, will feature Dr. Walter Jetz in a keynote presentation on Monday, July 19th, at 9:00 AM PT.  Read the full conference agenda here. Keynote event registration&nb

In a new Yale-led study published this Spring in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, scientists have found as much as 8% of montane cloud forests have been lost in the last 20 years due to man-made impacts. “While protected areas have slowed the decline in cloud for

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

This paper was published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on June 22, 2020. Authors: Christian Rutz, Matthias-Claudio Loretto, Amanda E. Bates, Sarah C. Davidson, Carlos M. Duarte, Walter Jetz [Yale University and Scientific Chair of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation], Mark Johns

In the culminating event of the book club reading of Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for life, Half-Earth Project members Paula Ehrlich, Walter Jetz and Piotr Naskrecki answered audience questions, digging into how this visionary concept is bringing conservation efforts of all types un

Protecting half the Earth for biodiversity is not just a matter of protecting more places, but protecting the right places where we have the best opportunity to protect the most species. Dig into the deep science, technological advancements, and the unprecedented global species mappin

On April 15, Microsoft made a significant commitment to the Half-Earth Project’s ability to speed the data processing needed to accomplish key elements of the work to map species globally to a 1km resolution, and to use this information to identify the places where we have the best op

We are pleased to announce the addition of three new team members to the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. Walter Jetz, Scientific Chair Walter Jetz is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Adjunct Professor in the School of Forestry and the Environment at Yale Univer