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Nature's Best Hope

· From pages 2, 3 of the print edition

A Free Lecture by Professor & Award-Winning Author Doug Tallamy

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.

Hosted by the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in partnership with Virginia Working Landscapes.

Sunday, March 29
Reception at 5:00 pm and Lecture at 5:45 pm
The Hill School Theater, 130 S. Madison Street, Middleburg, VA 20117
Tickets are free and available at doug-tallamy-middleburg-lecture.eventbrite.com