06/05/2026
Biodiversity is in trouble, but claims of 75% declines in animal populations and catastrophic biodiversity tipping points are not supported. Worse, they detract from the hard work of learning from both our failures and successes.
I claim that, like Half-elven Lord Elrond, I “was there at the beginning.” In this case, when, at a meeting in Michigan in 1985, Michael Soulé asked those