September 2008
Josh Donlan attends the 2008 Institute of International Education’s annual Gala, where Alcoa and Her Royal Highness Princess Ghida Talal of Jordan received awards for their work.
October 2008
Josh Donlan presents three invited talks on market-based solutions to environmental challenges at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
November 2008
Josh Donlan attends a conference with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association in New York City.
January 2009
Josh Donlan gives an invited lecture on rewillding at the International Biogeography Society conference in Merida, Meixco and attends the iGlobal Annual Carbon Trading Summit in New York City.
January 2009
Josh Donlan and colleagues published a paper this month in the Journal of Wildlife Management describing the recent restoration of Santiago Island, Galapagos. Project Isabela was the world’s largest island restoration to date.
February 2009
Biodiversity conservation strategies should include economic costs and incentive structures. In the journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 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.
February 2009
Josh Donlan is selected as an Amherst College Copeland Fellow for the 2009-10 year. The theme is focused on global sustainability and “It’s Not Easy Being Green: the Science, Politics, and Ethics of Environmentalism”.
April 2009
Josh Donlan is featured in Experience Life Magazine.
May 2009
Director Josh Donlan is a guest on the Kojo Nnamdi Show to talk about Market-based Environmentalism.
May 2009
Josh Donlan writes in SEED Magazine about why environmentalism needs high finance. He argues that conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align.
