A NOTE FROM OUR FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT,DR. STUART PIMM SavingSpecies has been moving at a considerable pace in the last year. The most important news is that we are now officially a 501c3 registered charity! This means we can now receive donations directly. We couldn’t have done what we have accomplished to date without the [...]

Guest Post by Altaire Cambata Biodiversity loss involves the decline and extinction of species. It’s something that’s been happening since life first evolved on Earth. But today, extinction rates are hundreds or even thousands of times higher than the “natural” or “background” rate. Earth today is undergoing a sixth mass extinction – a loss of [...]

{EAV:015f07f58425743b}Conservationists often raise the point that their cause is overshadowed by trivia from popular culture. But how true is that? Well, it is completely true, according to the results of Google searches for biodiversity compared with searches for celebrities. This graphic shows trends in Google search queries during 2011. The numbers on the graph represent [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words. And biodiversity is only one word. An important one, yes, but one that people have trouble understanding. Use these five biodversity infographics to help explain what biodiversity is and why it’s important. Global Biodiversity – Reuters This infographic summarizes the basic numbers for global species diversity, including proportions [...]

Stuart has created an awesome video with flyovers using Google Earth. The video summarizes perfectly what the Golden Lion Tamarin Project is about. Stuart uses photos and flyovers of Brazil’s Atlantic forest and zooms in to the Fazenda Dourada area to show the forest regrowing. It really illustrates how successful the project continues to be, [...]

After Black Friday’s perhaps overzealous shop fest, maybe you are a somewhat wearied by the idea of heading into the malls for another dose of heady consumerism. We can save you the trouble if you consider an alternative gift this year. At SavingSpecies, we have a wonderful project in Colombia to save and restore vital [...]

We’re very pleased to present this report from Clinton Jenkins, Research Scholar at North Carolina State University and former doctoral student of Stuart Pimm, founder of Saving Species. Dr. Jenkins traveled to the site at Fazenda Dourada in August 2011, and brings us this report in his own words. Fazenda Dourada update, August 2011 I [...]

Videos are a great way to learn and to teach. For biodiversity, they are especially important since they readily portray life’s variety and beauty. At the same time accompanying audio can convey the urgency of ongoing biodiversity loss. So it is wonderful that so many organizations have produced videos about biodiversity. But that has also [...]

With the pressing need to save species, scientists, conservationists, land managers, governments and funding agencies are feeling an increasing need to formalize biodiversity research and knowledge. As the number of prestigious institutions grows, biodiversity professionals will need to cross-pollinate their work to avoid duplication and optimize use of scarce resources. To this end, I have [...]

In his latest NPR interview, SavingSpecies founder Stuart Pimm addresses several basic “why should I care” questions about biodiversity. The State of Things host Frank Stasio highlights the kinds of questions non-scientists might have when they hear about the dire predictions of a mass extinction, loss of ecosystem services and how deforestation contributes to global warming. [...]