Dr. Doug Tallamy:

Doug Tallamy is a distinguished author, speaker, and professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. He is a New York Times best-selling author; many of his books are household names, including The Nature of Oaks, Bringing Nature Home, Nature's Best Hope, and How Can I Help. He is the founder of Homegrown National Park, an advocacy initiative that inspires and encourages people across the US to increase their local biodiversity through native plantings. He has over 100 scientific publications to his credit. 

Seminar title and description:

Nature’s Best Hope. Recent headlines about global insect declines, the impending extinction of one million species worldwide, 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. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity on our own properties and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope. 

Itinerary:

6:00pm reception with food (vegetarian friendly), cake, and guest tabling

7:00pm seminar

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