Designing Nature’s Half:
The Blog
News and education about landscape conservation and design.
🌎You Can't Conserve Wildlife Without Conserving Habitat
Wildlife cannot survive without habitat, yet we continue shaping landscapes one development project at a time. What if we started with a different question: what should the whole landscape become? Landscape conservation design offers another way.
🌎How Much Room Will Nature Need?
How much room will nature need? Conservation science suggests roughly half the Earth as a precautionary benchmark for ecological sufficiency, giving ecosystems the space to function and species the chance to persist. Climate change adds another dimension to that ambition: the same landscapes that let nature thrive also store and remove carbon, buffering communities and the climate. Two sides of the same coin. 50x50.
🌎Nature Works Across Landscapes. Conservation Should Too.
Pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss are reshaping landscapes while conservation remains divided across many of the boundaries nature crosses. Designing Nature’s Half asks how we can organize conservation differently—and its 30-day Kickstarter campaign is now live.
🌎Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis
A collaboration between two international scientific bodies reports: "The area of intact and effectively protected land and ocean required to meet the three objectives of habitable climate, self-sustaining biodiversity, and a good quality of life...is substantially larger than at present, with global estimates ranging from 30% to 50% of both land and ocean surface areas [emphasis added]." I also shared a link to my new website and the title of my upcoming book: Designing Nature's Half: A Practical Guide to Conserve 50% by 2050.