Nature's Best Hope - Sustaining The Plants & Animals That Sustain Us - Doug Tallamy

On June 17th, 2024, RDA, the Responsible Decarbonization Alliance, along with Lycoming Audubon Society and Full Circle Bioconversion, hosted wildlife ecologist Doug Tallamy at a free event at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA. Tallamy spoke about the shocking global declines in insect and bird numbers, explained simple steps individuals can take to help reverse declining biodiversity and why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one. In short, why we ourselves are nature’s best hope.
Tallamy is Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of numerous books on ecology, including Bringing Nature Home; Nature’s Best Hope; The Nature of Oaks, winner of the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 book award; and The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke. He has authored 112 research publications and taught insect related courses for 43 years. His awards include recognition from the Garden Writers Association, Audubon, the National Wildlife Federation, the Garden Club of America, the Herb Society, and the American Horticultural Association.
Tallamy has said that “headlines about global insect declines 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. Choosing the right plants for our landscapes will not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well.”
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as well as LYCOMING COLLEGE lycoming.edu for providing the venue
and Lonnie Wilcox of Wilcox Graphic Innovation, videographer.
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