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.
🌎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.