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ICOSA Radio features Harvey Locke on Nature Needs Half

A few weeks ago, ICOSA, a Denver CO based organization, hosted Harvey Locke on their radio show to talk about large landscape connectivity, the Yellowstone to Yukon conservation initiative and Nature Needs Half.  ICOSA's community based approach lead to a great conversational interview with Harvey that highlighted a lot of the 'big ideas' behind his conservation work and WILD's Nature Needs Half vision.  You can listen and download the full show - nearly an hour of information! Read More

Inspirational new book about the Serengeti

As we've watched over the past few months, the Serengeti - one of the most well recognized wild-ecosystems on the planet - remains in danger of development.  A proposed highway would bisect the landscape, severing migration routes, endangering wildlife and causing a cascade of negative impacts on the people, wildlife and ecosystems of this treasured area.  Serengeti Watch is leading an advocacy campaign to halt the highway, and co-founder Boyd Norton has just released a new book on the Serengeti -- where he has worked for over 25 years -- to raise awareness about the great natural wonder. Read More

Starfish, A poem by Mary Oliver

In the sea rocks, in the stone pockets under the tide’s lip, in water dense as blindness they slid like sponges, like too many thumbs. I knew this, and what I wanted Read More

The tonic of wildness, a few wise words from Henry David Thoreau

Go outside this weekend...unplug and soak in all that wild-nature has to offer. We need the tonic of wildness: To wade sometimes in the meadows where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; To smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. At the same time we are earnest to explore and learn, we require that all things be mysterious unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature, We must be refreshed by the sight ... Read More

New Resource on Marine Protected Areas

Most often when we discuss "wilderness areas" the first image that comes into mind is a big, wild area of land.  For me, I think of mountains -- mostly because mountain areas here in Colorado are very wild.  Admittedly, I also love mountains and have always had a personal connection with the serenity and grandness of mountain landscapes.  That said, there are large, uncharted wild areas in the two-thirds of our planet not covered in soil --- the ocean.  Perhaps because we humans can't live in the ocean, we haven't made as much headway in defining and declaring protected areas ... Read More

The State of the Elephant

Last week the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the international body created to protect wildlife from over-exploitation, met to discuss – among other items – the current state of illegal elephant ivory trade and poaching. Leading up to the convention, a flurry of reports revealed information about the current state of elephants in Africa and Asia. One such report in The Ecologist provides insight on how legal sales - one-off sales and sale of certified antique ivory - can instigate illegal markets or cause market confusion when proper controls are not enforced. Read More

Global Response Announces Ukok Plateau Campaign

Our colleagues at Global Response - Cultural Survival just announced a new campaign. Launched to coincide with the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the Ukok Plateau Campaign focuses on an issue that I have recently been learning more about - sacred natural sites.  The International Union for the Conservation of Nature defines sacred natural sites as natural areas of special spiritual significance to peoples and communities.  Many of these sites worldwide have been protected for hundreds of years, but perhaps have not been recognized for their contribution to conservation and biodiversity protection.  The inter-weaving of the environmental and ... Read More

1% Percent for the Planet Member Supports WILD’s work for wilderness worldwide

Wild Bags Support Wild-Nature Out_of_ark Wild Bags, conceived and manufactured by a German based design agency, pledged their support for the environment by making a generous contribution to support The WILD Foundation’s international work for wilderness, wildlife and people. Svenja Schneppe, Product Manager for out_of_ark comments, “We are excited to support The WILD Foundation because our product and vision align with the great work of WILD to protect the wild-places of our planet. And, our bags are WILD too!” 1% Percent for the Planet provides a unique avenue for connecting businesses, consumers and nonprofits through philanthropy. This growing movement ... Read More

“I Imagined” – Poem from Recent Umzi Wethu Graduate

Below is a poem by recent Umzi Wethu graduate Geovalda Cupido, who was part of the Umzi 8 Conservation Academy.  Umzi Wethu, a program run by the Wilderness Foundation (Africa) is a cutting edge program for AIDS orphans and disadvantaged youth that uses the power of the wilderness, promotes personal wellness in a nurturing home context, provides credible training, and secures sustainable job placements in hospitality and eco-tourism establishments - while extending the program's social outreach to others. Last week, Umzi graduated it's eight class -- which Geovalda was a part of.  Here are her words... Read More

WILD9 Body Painting

The event took place the 12 of November 2009 in the "Hacienda Tekit de Regil" in Merida, as part of the evening cultural program WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress. Read more about Body Painting at WILD9> Read More