Douglas Tallamy
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Recent headlines about the declining global insect population 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, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.
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DOUG TALLAMY is the T. A. Baker Professor at the University of Delaware, where he has taught insect-related courses for 42 years and authored over 100 research publications. His books include Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants; The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, co-authored with Rick Darke; Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard, a New York Times Best Seller; and The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees, winner of the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 book award. In 2021 he cofounded Homegrown National Park with Michelle Alfandari. His awards include recognition from The Garden Writer’s Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, Allegheny College, Ecoforesters, The Garden Club of America, and The American Horticultural Association.
Learn more about Douglas Tallamy at homegrownnationalpark.org.
