Not all bees produce honey in a hive. Native bees are just as crucial to the environment in their role as pollinators. They nest in holes in wood and logs. Make sure you leave a home for the bees!

Group Watch on Thursday, March 25th

Movie starts at 5:30 PM EDT on Zoom

Join us for a brief meetup starting at 5pm

Runtime: 76 mins.

Please send an RSVP to klay@wovenow.org

The Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund is a nonprofit devoted to supporting tropical dry forest, cloud forest, rain forest, and marine conservation in the 420,000 acre Área de Conservación Guanacaste. This complex protected area stretches across northwestern Costa Rica, and is home to over a half-million species, roughly 2.6% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity.

Among the work they support is a bioinventory project devoted to cataloging and studying the many species that populate Área de Conservación Guanacaste. They also have contributed to the expansion and growth of the formal protected area and support children’s bioliteracy programs. As in much of the tropics, logging, ranching, monoculture crops with pesticides, habitat fragmentation, and climate change have resulted in a decline of insects and overall biodiversity in Central America, making the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund's mission all the more important.

Biophilia by Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. Growing up in the countryside around Mobile, he was entranced by nature and all its creatures. A fishing accident left him blind in one eye, interfering with his ability to study birds and other animals in the field. He decided to focus on insects—creatures he could examine under a microscope. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Wilson played a key role in the development of the new field of chemical ecology. By the late 1970s, Wilson was actively involved in global conservation, adding to and promoting biodiversity research. In 1984 he published Biophilia, which explored the evolutionary and psychological basis of humanity’s attraction to the natural environment. This work introduced the word biophilia into the language, and has been influential in the shaping of the modern conservation ethic.

In addition to authoring books and articles on entomology and conservation and lecturing in many countries, Wilson has served on the boards of directors of the American Museum of Natural History, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund, and has been a key consultant of the New York Botanical Garden, Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and many other environmental and scientific organizations.