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E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is Powering How – creating and delivering actionable science through the Half-Earth Project to inspire and empower people, communities, and governments to tackle the biodiversity crisis.
How can we save more species?
Scientific discovery is How.
¿Cómo detener la crisis de la extinción?
Education is How.
We’re Powering How by educating the next generation of scholars and scientists with rich biodiversity education resources.
How can we preserve global biodiversity?
Connection is How.
We’re Powering How by convening leading voices in conservation to create new conversations, new solutions, and new champions for biodiversity.
How can we take action that benefits all species including our own?
Hope is How.
We’re Powering How by spreading E.O. Wilson’s hopeful inspiration and providing tools through the Half-Earth Project, we are empowering everyone from backyard birdwatchers to national leaders to do their part to protect biodiversity.
With scientific discovery, education, connection, and hope inspired by E.O. Wilson,
The Half-Earth Project is saving more species
and finding solutions to the most important question of all:
How do we ensure the continued survival of life on Earth?
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Media Tierra en la cubierta forestal
Los orangutanes de Tepanuli construyen sus nidos en las copas de los árboles de Sumatra. Estos grandes simios se balancean mucho más a menudo de lo que caminan, y su hábitat aéreo ofrece una vista privilegiada de los depredadores que acechan por debajo. Sin embargo, los nidos son cada vez más escasos. En el último recuento, los científicos registraron menos de 800 orangutanes de Tepanuli salvajes.
Están en peligro crítico de extinción, junto con las otras dos especies de orangutanes del mundo, que habitan en las islas de Sumatra y Borneo, respectivamente. Hace 50 años, los orangutanes de Borneo se acercaban a los 300.000 ejemplares. Los datos proyectan que en 2025 quedarán menos de 50.000. Las estrategias de conservación no sólo deben mantener la especie, dice el Dr. Eric Meijaard, "sino recuperar el mayor número posible".
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Noriña’s Vicente and the Next Generation
La científica Noriña Vicente documenta hormigas, polillas, escarabajos y otros insectos en el Parque Nacional de Gorongosa, observando el mundo microscópico de un ecosistema que tiene una enorme influencia en la biodiversidad de nuestro planeta. Con sus selvas tropicales, sabanas y humedales, el Parque de Gorongosa, en Mozambique, es ecológicamente único, y sus científicos se han comprometido a preservar la salud de su magnífica flora y fauna.
El viaje de Vicente para explorar el rico mundo natural de su tierra natal comenzó con una chispa de inspiración durante su infancia. Un documental de televisión que mostraba las colaboraciones de investigación de E. O. Wilson en Gorongosa mostraba a dos mujeres realizando estudios de campo en la sabana. "Estaban en el parque estudiando el comportamiento de los leones", recuerda Vicente. "Pensé, ¡oh, vaya, hay mujeres estudiando esto!".
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Global Urgency for Biodiversity
The movement to protect biodiversity is gaining momentum. At the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference, the global community emphasized why biodiversity is important: for our health and wellbeing, food supply and safety. Country leaders acknowledged who is responsible: Every nation and sector must work together for nothing less than planetary survival. To conclude the event and mark their commitments, 188 countries ratified the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This agreement will shape how we protect the species that share our planet.
“Nations have made a historic decision to protect the web of life upon which we all depend,” said Paula Ehrlich, President and CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. E. O. Wilson’s research on island biogeography and his subsequent book, Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, inspired the 30×30 target included in the GBF: 30% of lands and waters protected by 2030. “The agreement unites us in common cause to save nature, and with it, ourselves.”
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E.O. Wilson’s Legacy
Edward Osborne Wilson (1929–2021) is widely considered one of the greatest natural scientists of our time. He was a pioneer in efforts to preserve and protect the biodiversity of our planet, receiving more than 150 international awards, including Pulitzer Prizes for his books On Human Nature and The Ants.
His legacy in conservation science and his passion for biodiversity laid the foundation for the Half-Earth Project and its collaborative action on behalf of all species. Dr. Wilson’s Half-Earth vision is the culmination of a lifetime of discovery—and a guiding light for our future.
