Doug Tallamy On Hope and Restoring Biodiversity, February 26th
Image: Courtesy of Friends of Hollin Hills, Doug Tallamy
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Book signing and reception starts at 3 pm
Talk starts at 4 pm
Mt Vernon Unitarian Church,
Main Building,
1909 Windmill Lane Alexandria, VA 22307
Tickets: $25
Click here for tickets and additional details.
Friends of Hollin Hills are hosting an in-person event with professor and author Doug Tallamy on Sunday, February 26.
Doug Tallamy addresses the need to restore our natural world. Global insect declines and 3,000,000,000 fewer birds in North American are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us.
To create landscapes that enhance local ecosystems rather than degrade them, we must 1) remove invasives and 2) add native plant communities that sustain food webs, sequester carbon, maintain diverse native bee communities and manage our watersheds.
If we do this in half the area now in lawn, we can create Homegrown National Park, a network of viable habitats throughout the US that will provide vital corridors connecting the natural areas that remain. This approach to conservation empowers everyone to play a significant role in the future of the natural world. It is also enormously satisfying and restorative for those who act.
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