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In 2017, Dr. Wilson issued a bold call: Humanity must devote half of the Earth’s surface to nature. Two years later, the UN would warn against a global extinction crisis. Dr. Wilson’s book Half-Earth: Our Planet offered a solution to meet the magnitude of the problem.
Mark W. Moffett (1987) Edward Osborne Wilson ForMemRS (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology. Born in Alabama, Wilson found an early interest in nature and frequented the outdoors. At age seven, he was partially blinded in a fishing ...
Join us for Half-Earth Day 2024 in Cali, ColombiaLearn MoreThe E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Presents: Listening to the Quietwith Harrison FordWatch NowSaving BiodiversityIf you look at history, this is the sort of moonshot ambition that drives humanity.WATCH NOW The Half-Earth ProjectDiscover the tools we are developing to help protect global biodiversity. Explore the Half-Earth Project
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Dec 26, 2021 · June 10, 1991: Edward O. Wilson, co-author of The Ants, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general Nonfiction. (AP) Wilson synthesized his enormous body of knowledge on the social insects — ants, bees, wasps and termites — in his masterful work, The Insect Societies, published in 1971. This work invoked the evolving concept of sociobiology ...
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John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that the rigid outer layers of the Earth ( crust and part of the upper mantle ), the lithosphere , is broken up into around 13 pieces or "plates" that move independently ...
