Training
The WILD Foundation was founded as a direct result of many years of work by the Wilderness Leadership School and Ian Player, in South Africa. It is a unique story in conservation history, and pioneered multi-racial environmental education and wilderness experience during the apartheid regime. Many thousands of people – of all races, from disadvantaged youth to leaders from business, communities and government – were taken into the African wilderness in small groups for wilderness trails. Read more about WILD and The Wilderness Network >
From these roots comes our dedication to providing wilderness experience and professional training opportunities so that people can learn more about themselves and the wilderness, experience the spirit of wild nature, and also how to protect and manage it.
In this section of the website we will post links and occasional news about specific courses and experiences that we sponsor in Africa, Latin America, during the World Wilderness Congress, and elsewhere, and also that are conducted by our friends and associates. Here are a few of the ways that WILD is continually engaged in training:
- WILD and partner Fulcrum Books publish the Wilderness Management textbook, edited by John Hendee and Chad Dawson. This book, now in its third edition, has become the standard reference on wilderness management around the world.
- The International Journal of Wilderness regularly features articles by wilderness managers providing information on lessons learned in the field.
- The World Wilderness Congresses always focus on management issues, from the site level to large-scale conservation corridors, to global changes affecting wilderness protected areas. See a sample training course from the 8th World Wilderness Congress >>
