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.

Check out the new book “Gaia in Turmoil” by Eillen Crist and Bruce Rinker. ACS endorses it on the jacket.

“Forty years since Lovelock’s ‘living Earth’ was born, Gaia in Turmoil is one timely collection that defines where Gaia is today and its implications for climate change, biodiversity, education, and ethics. Like its science, Gaia in Turmoil is ‘one grand organic whole.’ A must read for anyone chasing the big picture.” —C. Josh Donlan, Director, Advanced Conservation Strategies.

ACS’s Josh Donlan is interviewed in this week’s issue of Nature Magazine. Journalist Emma Marris looks at rewilding projects around the world.

Oct 1, 2009: Dr. Josh Donlan is quoted in The Economist Magazine in an article about climate chance, environmental conservation, and paleontology.

Director Josh Donlan is quoted in an article describing Project Isabela in the Galapagos Island - the world’s largest island restoration project - in the Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Donlan was the Science and Conservation Advisor for the project.

Director Josh Donlan is a guest on the Kojo Nnamdi Show to talk about Market-based Environmentalism.

ACS’s Josh Donlan, Jamie Mandel, and Chris Wilcox write in SEED Magazine about why environmentalism needs high finance. They argue that  conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align.

Director Josh Donlan is featured in Experience Life Magazine.

Conservationists are restoring a living tortoise fossil to its prehistoric range. Can we recreate nature? Journalist James MacKinnon talks to ACS director Josh Donlan and others for his story on the Bolson Tortoise reintoduction project and rewilding in this month’s issue of The Walrus.

The Christian Science Monitor covers biodiversity derivatives - Greens take a cue from financiers, environmental derivatives encourage creative, proactive conservation.

Wired Magazine covers biodiversity derivatives - To save animals, put a price on them.

Biodiversity conservation strategies should include economic costs and incentive structures. In the journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, ACS’s Jamie Mandel and Josh Donlan propose one way to do so. “A derivative approach to endangered species conservation” describes how modified derivative products - biodiversity derivatives - could be designed to finance species recover efforts and align the interests of landowners and conservationists, making private interventions more likely. Such financial instruments could create markets around biodiversity conservation, providing an insurance policy against species jeopardy while also providing incentives for environmental stewardship. A copy of the paper is available here.

Josh Donlan is quoted in the December issue of New Scientist on the use of prediction markets in the environmental sector

Josh Donlan comments on the feasibility of removing invasive beavers from southern South America in Nature Magazine. Click here for a copy of the article.