NETWORKS FOR LIFE - Doug Tallamy 09/13/11

Entomologist Doug Tallamy addresses the scientific basis for biodiversity conservation. Professor and Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, Dr. Tallamy discusses why biological diversity is essential to sustaining human societies, how landscape fragmentation is reducing biodiversity and degrading ecosystems, and how we can reconnect the remaining viable habitats by changing the landscaping paradigm that dominates our residential and municipal landscapes.

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[johnbyronkuhner]

I've been using Tallamy's principles in my garden for the past two years, and I've been impressed by how it really does work - I can't tell you how excited I was to see my first monarch butterfly caterpillars after putting in some Asclepias tuberosa.