In Edward O. Wilson’s newest book Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, he argues that if we conserve half of the earth’s land and water for nature, we are likely to save 90% of the remaining life on the planet. At Wildlands Network, we have long advocated for essentially the same vision for the biodiversity of North America, long before Dr. Wilson so eloquently put it into words at the global scale. We’re putting these ideas into practice with the formation of our Eastern Wildway Network, which envisions a connected landscape of wildlands and wild waters supporting thriving ecosystems, wildlife, and human communities that depend on them, from eastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This past fall, over 40 leading conservationists came together
