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Title
Review of Half-earth: Our planet’s fight for life, by Edward O. Wilson
Author(s)
Halliday, William D.
Published
2018
Publisher
The Canadian Field-Naturalist
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v132i1.2129
Abstract
In Half-Earth, renowned entomologist and conservation biologist Edward O. Wilson argues for why we should protect half of Earth’s surface in order to conserve biodiversity. Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at the fastest rate in history, and this high extinction risk is linked directly to human activities, including habitat loss and overexploitation. And because we have yet to describe all species on Earth, it is likely that a large number of species will go extinct before we have the chance to describe them. E.o. Wilson has led a career filled with discovering species new to science, so he is well suited to describe and champion the race to describe life on this planet before it disappears. But the goal isn’t simply to have the opportunity to describe species and learn more about the natural world around us. the goal is to preserve biodiversity because it is the ethical thing to do, species extinction has cascading effects within ecosystems which are difficult to predict, and because biodiversity benefits humans in countless ways.
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