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Tony Hiss

@tonyhiss

Author of 15 books, including RESCUING THE PLANET (Vintage paperback 2022) and THE EXPERIENCE OF PLACE @VintageAnchor @AAKnopf Order paperback below:

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Book trailer for paperback #RescuingthePlanet! @VintageAnchor @AAKnopf #biodiversity #biosphere #Protect30x30 #50x50
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Just posted on "Rewilding Successes" @EcolCitizen: My story about MC Davis's 300-year campaign to save the Longleaf Pine Forest, signature ecosystem of US Southeast - a man with a compelling #biodiversity mega-vision of what life can be like in 2400 AD. rewilding.ecologicalcitizen.…
Rewilding the piney woods [Southern USA]

Rewilding the piney woods [Southern USA]

Tony Hiss writes: “Some years ago, E. O. Wilson, the great conservation biologist, took me on a rewilding field trip to meet M. C. Davis, a friend of his who was growing a forest in the Flori…

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Elvis's inspiring presentation about the Great Green Wall was one of the highlights of this exciting UPenn first-ever global gathering of Mega-Eco Projects - landscape and #biodiversity and #biosphere preservation at the very largest scale! So glad I know you now, Elvis! #30x30
Elvis Paul Nfor TANGEM (@tangem2009) profile pictureElvis Paul Nfor TANGEM@tangem200915 Oct 2023
I had the privilege of taking part and presenting the #greatgreenwall at the Global Mega Eco symposium at Univ of Pennsylvania, met the passionate Environmentalist @tonyhiss & many others. An Alliance for #GlobalMegaEco projects coming up.
Image from Elvis Paul Nfor TANGEM (@tangem2009)
Image from Elvis Paul Nfor TANGEM (@tangem2009)
Image from Elvis Paul Nfor TANGEM (@tangem2009)
Image from Elvis Paul Nfor TANGEM (@tangem2009)
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Very much looking forward to keynoting this first-ever get-together of some of the world's largest landscape and #biodiversity #preservation projects. Please join us if you're in Philly! #biosphere Penn Symposium Examines Ecological Restoration Projects architectmagazine.com/Design…
Penn Symposium Examines Ecological Restoration Projects

Penn Symposium Examines Ecological Restoration Projects

Slated for Oct. 5, the event will look at works "designed to address biodiversity loss, land degradation, and climate change while improving living conditions for the Earth’s eight billion human...

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Baby sea otters to the rescue! Hunted almost to #extinction, these guys could restore eelgrass, kelp forests + #biodiversity to the CA coastline. Great @dino_grandoni piece explains how. Baby sea otters are adorable. But they aren’t wanted everywhere. wapo.st/3reyB4c
Baby sea otters are adorable. But they aren’t wanted everywhere.

Baby sea otters are adorable. But they aren’t wanted everywhere.

Rescuers are saving baby sea otters in the hopes of someday repopulating much of the West Coast with them. But they have to do so without loving them to death.

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Now any lawn, garden or balcony can become a mini-#bioreserve: Plant an endangered species and you'll help stave off the #extinction crisis! #biodiversity #30x30 Gardens blooming with endangered plants could prove a boon to conservation | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Gardens blooming with endangered plants could prove a boon to conservation

Gardens blooming with endangered plants could prove a boon to conservation

A new study suggests German gardens can foster hundreds of endangered plant species

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This "huge, huge" problem needs everyone's help: #InvasiveAlienSpecies are leaking around the world, shrinking #biodiversity, weakening the #biosphere. So keep species home! Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity theguardian.com/environment/…
Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity

Invasive species cost humans $423bn each year and threaten world’s diversity

At least 3,500 harmful invasive species recorded in every region on Earth spread by human activity, says UN report

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"Funga": Get used to the word - it's time to embrace a third essential pillar of #biodiversity! Thinking bigger gets us closer to seeing the true structure of the #biosphere. Flora, fauna and … funga: campaigners call for new term for conservation talks theguardian.com/environment/…
Flora, fauna and … funga: campaigners call for new term for conservation talks

Flora, fauna and … funga: campaigners call for new term for conservation talks

Fungi should be recognised and protected on equal footing with plants and animals, says Fungi Foundation

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A burst of urban #biodiversity in a tiny package: Miyawaki forests the size of a tennis court grow 10x faster (+ store Carbon)! Check out this article from @nytimes. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription. nytimes.com/2023/08/24/clima…
Tiny Forests With Big Benefits (Gift Article)

Tiny Forests With Big Benefits (Gift Article)

Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S.

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Next in #Canada: World's 1st Inuit-protected Marine Protected Area - almost 2x the size of Yellowstone, it will lock in a sure future for a big share of #Arctic #biodiversity! #30x30 New dawn for Arctic’s first people: the Inuit plan to reclaim their sea theguardian.com/environment/…

A new dawn rises in the Arctic: the Inuit plan to reclaim their sea

The environment Inuit have lived in for millennia is changing fast. Canada’s government once ignored Indigenous knowledge of it but now they are jointly creating the Nunatsiavut conservation area

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The #veery somehow knows if #hurricane seasons will be fierce+flies south earlier! To thrive in a warmer world, let's gather all vital info fellow beings already live by! This bird can predict the intensity of a hurricane season. Here’s how. nationalgeographic.com/envir… via @NatGeo
This bird can predict the intensity of a hurricane season. Here’s how.

This bird can predict the intensity of a hurricane season. Here’s how.

The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate?

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Worries that sea ice loss may lead to "#ecosystem annihilation" and the extinction of the magnificent, stoic #EmperorPenguin. #biodiversity #biosphere #30x30 #KeepLifeAlive For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’ nationalgeographic.com/premi… via @NatGeo
For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’

For Antarctica’s emperor penguins, ‘there is no time left’

A new study predicts a bleak future for these iconic birds, which experienced an unprecedented breeding failure last year due to record-low sea ice levels.

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Irresistible story of the week! The #Octopus Garden off CA coast is a nursery 20,000-strong - and it's yet another whole new kind of #ecosystem! #biodiversity #biosphere #30x30 #KeepLifeAlive Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives nytimes.com/2023/08/23/scien…
Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives (Published 2023)

Atop an Underwater Hot Spring, an ‘Octopus Garden’ Thrives (Published 2023)

The heat, a new study suggests, makes for an ideal breeding ground for these eight-legged animals.

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Guess what? There's a vast, long-unsuspected, O2-rich #biosphere 650ft beneath our feet, down in the deep aquifers we routinely squander+deplete! #biodiversity protection requires 3D thinking! Cells Discovered Making 'Dark Oxygen' Underground scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam
Cells Discovered Making 'Dark Oxygen' Underground

Cells Discovered Making 'Dark Oxygen' Underground

A chemical trick for making oxygen can sustain whole underground ecosystems

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#biodiversity protection has a new dimension: Conserving #ecosystems 2x as big as Ireland that don't even exist yet but will contain "crucial new habitat"! #biosphere #30x30 Disappearing Glaciers Expose Vast New Ecosystems That Need Protection scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam
Disappearing Glaciers Expose Vast New Ecosystems That Need Protection

Disappearing Glaciers Expose Vast New Ecosystems That Need Protection

New habitats that are emerging as mountain glaciers melt away represent huge ecological shifts and present new challenges for conservation

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Delighted to be the guest on Stefan van Norden's terrific podcast, Nature Revisited! We talk about my book, about Half Earth, #30x30, #biodiversity, the #biosphere, and the great planet-healing work under way. Episode 102: Tony Hiss - Rescuing The Planet noordenproductions.com/natur…
Episode 102: Tony Hiss - Rescuing The Planet — Noorden Productions

Episode 102: Tony Hiss - Rescuing The Planet — Noorden Productions

Listen on YouTube

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6 in 10 voters in #Ecuador say NO to despoiling a #biosphere reserve that's also an #INDIGENOUS homeland, halting what had been called an "American Chernobyl." #biodiversity #30x30 Ecuador votes to halt oil drilling in Amazonian biodiversity hotspot theguardian.com/world/2023/a…

Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park

Referendum result protecting Yasuní reserve will benefit huge range of species as well as ‘uncontacted’ Indigenous peoples

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#omnicide - so many grave crimes all at once: the invasion of #Ukraine takes equal aim at people and #biodiversity. Russia is committing grave acts of ecocide in Ukraine – and the results will harm the whole world | Andriy Yermak and Margot Wallström theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Russia is committing grave acts of ecocide in Ukraine – and the results will harm the whole world |...

Russia is committing grave acts of ecocide in Ukraine – and the results will harm the whole world |...

By the war’s end, it will be too late to prevent the worst consequences of these terrible crimes. Global leaders must act now, write Andriy Yermak and Margot Wallström

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Now that we know that more than 50% of all species live underground, this seems like a good place to start! (60% of Europe's #soil is considered degraded!) #biodiversity EU sets out first-ever soil law to protect food security and slow global heating theguardian.com/environment/…
EU sets out first-ever soil law to protect food security and slow global heating

EU sets out first-ever soil law to protect food security and slow global heating

Proposal to improve soil health throughout continent by 2050 criticised for lack of legally binding targets

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#biodiversity's powerful new enemy: #NarcoDevelopment: Drug dealers' roads and deforestation threaten to overwhelm a crucial #Honduras #biosphere reserve the size of New Jersey. #30x30 #50x50 The narco-highway creating chaos in a Honduran rainforest theguardian.com/world/2023/a…

The narco-highway creating chaos in a Honduran rainforest

If cutting continues along its current pace, most of the Moskitia forest – and the way of life it sustains – could be lost by 2050, much sooner for many parts

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World-changing result of Russia's invasion: #ecocide--deliberate destruction of ecosystems and #biodiversity--may now finally get official standing as an international crime! As Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore, Ukraine Builds a Case of Ecocide Against Russia nytimes.com/2023/08/17/world…
As Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore, Ukraine Builds a Case of Ecocide Against Russia (Published 2023)

As Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore, Ukraine Builds a Case of Ecocide Against Russia (Published 2023)

The animals are dying in droves in the Black Sea, and Ukrainian officials are documenting the deaths, hoping to prosecute Russia for the war’s ecological toll.

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