We, Ourselves, Are Nature's Best Hope

We, Ourselves, Are Nature's Best Hope

YOU ARE NATURE’S BEST HOPE.

On June 17th, 2024, RDA 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.

According to Tallamy, “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.”

Doug 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.

RDA thanks our co-sponsors for the event, http://www.lycomingaudubon.org
and http://www.fullcirclebioconversion.com
as well as Lycoming College http://lycoming.edu for providing the venue, and Lonnie Wilcox of Wilcox Graphic Innovation, videographer.

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