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Protecting Wild Nature on Native Lands, Vol. II now available!

Volume II of Protecting Wild Nature on Native Lands: Case Studies by Native Peoples from around the World is now available as a free download, or for purchase as a hard copy. This volume of case studies is the second in an ongoing series produced through the Native Lands and Wilderness Council (NLWC), a platform for indigenous knowledge exchange and capacity building that ensures that the knowledge and wisdom of indigenous peoples influences the policies, practices and approaches of the global wilderness conservation movement. These case studies highlight indigenous peoples' strategies for coexisting with and managing their wild lands and ... Read More

Desert Elephants children’s book

WILD has worked to protect the unique “Desert Elephants of Mali” since 2002.  We collaborated closely with author Helen Cowcher to present this lovely children’s book that conveys the essential message of the elephants, the people, and our work in Mali. Read More

Free WILD9 publication now available for download

WILD9 technical proceedings,  Science and Stewardship to Protect and Sustain Wilderness—9th World Wilderness Congress (Mexico, 2009) are now available for no charge by download or order form! Read More

Understanding the Cultural, Existence, and Bequest Values of Wilderness

Re-posted from the December 2005 International Journal of Wilderness.  By Rudy M. Schuster, H. Ken Cordell, and Brad Phillips. Introduction A deeper understanding of public values regarding the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) is of interest to researchers and managers. Wilderness values were defined in the National Survey on Recreation and the Environment (NSRE) (Cordell, Betz, and Green 2002; Cordell, Tarrant, and Green 2003a; Cordell, Tarrant, and Green 2003b) and it is conducted periodically by the U.S. Forest Service in part to track public attitudes toward the natural environment and public lands (Cordell et al. 2003a). The NSRE has provided a ... Read More

Please join us for…

An evening with David Spangler Thinking Like a Planet: Discovering the "Gaia Within" Tuesday 12 April 2011 7-9pm Unity Church of Boulder 2855 Folsom Street, Boulder CO $10 donation to benefit The WILD Foundation (you can pay at the door with cash or check or pre-pay online using a visa/mastercard) Our ancestors saw the world as a living being. This idea has been similarly articulated for our modern age in James Lovelock’s “Gaia Theory.” David Spangler takes it another step, and helps us see Gaia as more than science, and as a renewed type of relationship between each of us and the natural world. ... Read More

Judges Announced for International Forest Film Festival

An International Forest Film Festival competition to mark the International Year of Forests, 2011 has named Vance Martin, the president of the WILD Foundation, Jan McAlpine, director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, and iLCP's Cristina Mittermeier as the judges who will select winning films from 18 finalists in six categories. Read More

Chesapeake Bay RAVE Blog

Following up on my earlier post about iLCP's Chesapeake Bay RAVE, a collaboration between the International League of Conservation Photographers and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to raise awareness and promoting advocacy to protect the bay, the Chesapeake Bay Blog is now active and up-to-date! Read More

A Letter to My Friends in Wilderness

This article by the late George Duffy (retired U.S. Forest Service wilderness ranger) appears in the newest issue of the International Journal of Wilderness, August 2010. Editor’s Note: This “Farewell” essay was written by George Duffy to fellow wilderness stewards after he learned he had a rare and fatal cancer. This letter reflects how George lived his life: full of verve and passion for wilderness, and always striving to improve wilderness stewardship. George was the steward for several wildernesses in California, pioneering new education programs that reached the hearts and minds of thousands of young people, helping them understand and appreciate ... Read More

On Sanctuary

Sanctuary is important. In our yearning to connect with nature, understand and be kind to animals, save the natural world, and retain our sanity, one of the enduring divides is that between the animal welfare and conservation movements. It is a damaging dialectic, and one not necessary…but humans too often seem to be drawn to polarity, and to defining what is different and opposed, rather than what may be different but complimentary and/or mutually important and enhancing. Read More

April IJW is here!

Earlier this week, the newest issue of the International Journal of Wilderness was sent to subscribers!  This great issue includes articles about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Inter Sinkyone tribal wilderness lands.  Vance Martin and Dave Parson also reflect on WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (6-13 November 2009, Merida Mexico).  Several articles are available online, but to get the full IJW experience, subscribe today and we'll send you this issue right away! Read More