The short film issues a call to listen to the voices of biodiversity and take action to reimagine how we care for the planet. Ford’s message was written in collaboration with Anthony Doerr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, and Dr Paula J. Ehrlich, president and chief executive of the Foundation.

“Any individual life – mine or yours – is nothing but a wisp of thread in the miles-long rope of life,” Ford reflects in the film, which is available for viewing via the Foundation’s website and social media channels. “The most meaningful thing we can do in our time on Earth is to ensure that the rope isn’t too frayed for the next generation.”

Ford has been a friend of E.O. Wilson, the renowned naturalist, biologist, entomologist, and namesake of the Foundation, since the early 1990s. They worked together for nearly three decades to champion the conservation of global biodiversity, and Ford remains a strong advocate of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.

In 2002, Wilson named a new ant species Pheidole harrisonfordi in recognition of Ford’s conservation work, and in 2010, the friends teamed up again to create the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

In sharing this message, Ford’s aim is to engage people in the importance of biodiversity to our lives and the enduring sustainability of our planet.

“Harrison’s voice echoes the heart of E.O. Wilson’s greatest hope,” Ehrlich said, “that we nurture an exciting adventure in nature in order to best understand and care for nature.”

E.O. Wilson’s book Half-Earth is a call to protect half the Earth’s land and sea in order to manage sufficient habitat to safeguard the bulk of biodiversity. The Foundation’s Half-Earth Project helps inspire collective action to save the biosphere and uses geospatial information to inform what network of places should be prioritised for conservation in order to protect the most species.