Nature’s Best Hope with Doug Tallamy

Note from Connie: Not sure how long this lasts, so I estimated 7-8:30 p.m.

Georgia Audubon is thrilled to welcome award-winning author and entomologist Doug Tallamy for a webinar on the evening of September 17. This is an amazing opportunity to hear Doug’s message of hope and to learn how we all can be part of the solution to address declining biodiversity and save birds, too.

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 and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 103 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 40 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in 2007 and was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers’ Association. The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014. Doug’s new book Nature’s Best Hope, released by Timber Press in February 2020, is a New York Times Best Seller. Among his awards are the Garden Club of America Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of Excellence, the 2018 AHS B.Y. Morrison Communication Award and the 2019 Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award.

Note on ticket pricing: Georgia Audubon is partnering with Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur to make available signed, hard-cover copies of Tallamy’s latest book, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard. The books may either be picked up in the retail store or shipped to your home for an additional fee. Eagle Eye Books Shop will be donating a portion of the book sales to Georgia Audubon.  Ticket prices are per device, so if you and your family would like to watch on the same device it is fine to purchase only one ticket.

Webinar Only:
$15 – Georgia Audubon members
$20 – Non-members

Ticket and copy of Nature’s Best Hope (You must pick up book at Eagle Eye Book Shop, Decatur)
$45 – Georgia Audubon members
$50 – Non-members
($2 Discount on ticket price)

Ticket and copy of Nature’s Best Hope (shipped to you at your home)
$50 – Georgia Audubon members
$55 – Non-members