World Park; an Exciting New Global Nature Conservation Strategy and Education Plan

We present a vision that is simple, clear, and scientifically robust that generates predictions, testable hypotheses, and is inspiring to people worldwide. The Earth has been evolving our global ecosystem for 3.8 billion years where biodiversity produces beauty and benefits for all life. New foods, medicines, and innovations are treasures ever emerging from nature. Now with nature in a world of humanity and fragmentation, we are rapidly simplifying our beneficial biodiversity. Conservationists trying to save life in protected areas are learning we will not protect nature in time. We have designed a new conservation strategy and educational plan that is refreshing nature with beneficial biological consequences. Turning traditional conservation strategy inside out, we protect all of nature in a world park. The “centers of the world park” are our last remaining 12% of healthy natural areas, wilderness areas, primary ecosystems, mini parks, and hotspots. Each bio community designs reconnections from their own natural areas outward towards other centers, thus gradually transforming the whole world back into a healthy global ecosystem. This is a clear target. Our highly successful college educational curriculum is a positive solutions-based approach to nature conservation. Using examples from indigenous peoples who have been living near thriving natural ecosystems for thousands of years we inspire students with good models of biomimicry, cultural survival, and island biogeography, and honor the world's conservationists.