ACS heads to Argentina and Chile to help local NGOs and government agencies push the Restoration of Tierra del Fuego Program forward. We will also be presenting a talk entitled at the “The Role of Ecological Science in Island Restoration Programs” at the 4th Annual Bi-national Ecology Conference in Buenos Aires.

Josh Donlan give a talk on environmental mortgages at the annual meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology in Edmonton, Canada.

Josh Donlan leads a panel on innovative finance at the 3rd Annual Ecosystem Markets Conference in North Carolina.

Josh Donlan co-authors a paper in the journal Ecography entitled, “Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions”. Click here for a copy of the paper.

Josh Donlan and Jamie Mandel present environmental mortgages at the World Bank as part of their series on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development.

ACS’s Josh Donlan is awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, announced that in its eighty-sixth annual competition for the United States and Canada the Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars.  The successful candidates were chosen from a group of some 3,000 applicants. Press Release.

ACS’s Josh Donlan is quoted in the March issue of Discover Magazine in an article by Andrew Curry on the rewilding of the Oostvaarderplassen in the Netherlands.

Josh Donlan co-authors a chapter in the new book Restoration and History: The Search for a Usable Environmental Past.

Josh Donlan presents a talk on island restoration in Auckland, New Zealand at the Island Invasives: Eradication and Management Conference.

Josh Donlan is invited to speak on rewilding at the UNESCO International Year of Biodiversity Science Policy Conference in Paris (25-29 January). He co-chaired the committee on the statement and recommendations from the conference for the Conference of the Parties to the CBD to be held in Nagoya, Japan in October.

ACS’s NatureWorm project is chosen as a semi-finalist for the Echoing Green Fellowship Competition.

Josh Donlan co-authors a paper in the journal Oryx describing the milestone island restoration projects on Anacapa Island in the U.S. Channel Islands National Park. Click here for a copy of the article.