Nature's Best Hope with Douglas Tallamy

This presentation was hosted by The Nature Foundation of Will County on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 as part of the Learn & Grow seminar series. The generous spirit of our donors, corporate partners and supporters allows us to offer these seminars free-of-charge. We are committed to offering programs that protect nature, inspire discovery, and bring people and nature together.

Description: Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. In his presentation, Tallamy discusses simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

Doug Tallamy is an entomologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored well over eighty research articles and has taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, Humans and Nature, and other courses for 40+ years. He has written and co-authored several books which have come to define the native plant movement. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.

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Should this be named "Nature's Best Hope" rather than "Nature's Best Home?".. :)