Guest speaker and club member, Julian Shepard, will discuss the Half-Earth project. How can we save half of Earth for nature? In the face of recent publicity about decimations of animal and plant populations, the idea of saving half of Earth for nature has recently been popularized by the great biologist/conservationist Edward Wilson. Guest speaker Julian Shepherd, PhD, will present some of the evidence for how this might be accomplished and illustrate it with some of his experiences locally and in the tropics.

Julian Shepherd, PhD was born in England and emigrated to the United States at the age of 4. He was educated at Cornell, London, and Harvard Universities. Dr. Shepherd worked in East Africa for 2 1/2 years before coming to Binghamton University in 1975 where he continues to teach. He has taught various ecology, zoology and conservation courses, that have included both local and Costa Rica field trips, research on insect biology, and an inventory of natural areas in Broome County.

As always, Naturalists’ Club member meetings are free and open to the public.