Designing Nature’s Half:
The Blog
News and education about landscape conservation and design.
🌎The Election Opened a Door for Nature: A Call for Action
The November 3 election opened a new opportunity for American conservation. With COP17 warning that global biodiversity commitments are falling short, the conservation community must turn science into advocacy—and press for a national 50×50 commitment supported by landscape conservation design, durable policies, and coordinated action across jurisdictions.
🌎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.
🌎International Day for Biological Diversity: From Land Protection to System Design
Biological diversity depends on connected social-ecological systems, yet many decisions affecting those systems remain fragmented across landscapes, jurisdictions, and time. This International Day for Biological Diversity, the deeper question is not only what conservation protects, but how conservation must be organized to sustain life across the systems it depends on. From protection to system design, biodiversity increasingly reveals the need for more integrated conservation at ecological scale.
🌎Connectivity Is Key: The Future of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation, with Hugh Possingham
Hugh Possingham, Professor of Mathematics and Ecology at the University of Queensland, Australia, shares his expertise in biodiversity conservation, spatial planning, and decision science in protected area networks and Marxan, a spatial prioritization decision support tool. Tune into this enlightening conversation packed with expert insights perfect for anyone passionate about sustaining nature half through thoughtful planning, design, and collective action!