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In the Footsteps of Thesiger
Years ago, in a used book store, I discovered The Marsh Arabs, by Wilfred Thesiger. I devoured it — learning a lot about the cultures of the Shia Muslim tribes who live in the marshlands of the Tigris- Euphrates rivers in SE Iraq along the Iran border —...
Getting Down to Brass Tacks (Or Cement Pylons) On the I-70 Wildlife Bridge
By Paige Singer Habitat Connectivity Program Director Rocky Mountain Wild, WILD and other partners continue to forge ahead in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bring you the first-ever wildlife overpass across Interstate 70. This...
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Wildlife Crossing Structures: An Innovative Global Conservation Strategy
A global movement to reconnect wildlife habitats and offer animals and drivers safe passage while traveling (or migrating!) has been gaining momentum for the past several decades. This article highlights some notable examples of how wildlife crossing structures have...
Forever Wild: Rhino recovery project
With tragedy, there is sometimes also hope. On 2 March 2012, three rhinos were poached at the Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape. Tragically one male rhino was fatally injured and died during the course of the night, but two rhinos, a male and a female survived....
Return of the Auroch to Central Europe
The main icon for WILD10 is the auroch, the large, wild bovine herbivore that roamed Europe for many thousands of years, shaping the landscape, until it was extirpated almost 400 years ago. The artistic impression we use (created by Jaime Rojo) is from one of the...
A WILD week in Madrid…
People often ask me “What do you actually do? …usually thinking that I must spend all my time in the wild, with wildlife, whatever. Well, though my work is for wildness, it is mostly with people, because that is where the change needs to happen. It is usually slow...
Great News on the Flathead Valley!
Conservation groups announced last week that they have mobilized more than $10 million in public and private funds to protect from mining and oil and gas development the spectacular and internationally important in the Flathead River Valley, a vast wilderness that...
National Wilderness Month
Perhaps not at the top of list for politicking in the steamy race for the U.S. Presidency, wilderness remains a priority for the current Administration and will be on the agenda for the next Congress. President Barack Obama has declared September as National...
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Native Lands & Wilderness Council: 2012 Regional Gathering
You’re invited! Native Lands and Wilderness Council 2012 Regional Gathering Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness Salish Kootenai College – Pablo, Montana Flathead Indian Reservation September 5-7, 2012 Hosted by:...
Graduation marks new beginnings for vulnerable youth
Changing the world requires people who are willing to change themselves…this is as true for people working in nature and wilderness conservation as it is for anyone else. The students and potential young leaders in the year-long training program of Umzi Wethu...
Samburu warriors as ambassadors for lion conservation
In 2010, WILD partnered with the Ewaso Lions Project, which promotes coexistence between lions and local pastoralists in northern Kenya, where rising conflict has contributed to a declining lion population with less than 2,000 individuals remaining. Ewaso Lions is a...
Black bears living near Colorado’s I-70 will benefit from proposed wildlife bridge
A study was conducted in 2009 and 2010 to count the animal species whose territories overlap the heavily traveled section of I-70 in Colorado from Dotsero to Golden. The results of this study are helpful to support the construction of wildlife over and underpasses...
The Murie Center: Conservation’s Home
As mentioned in the previous “Pronghorn Migration” blog by Alyson Duffey, the WILD staff in Boulder recently took a road trip to visit with our friends and partners at The Murie Center in Jackson Hole, WY. And what a phenomenal trip it was! We couldn’t have asked for...
The Great Migration: the Path of the Pronghorn
The WILD staff in Boulder recently took a road trip up to Jackson, Wyoming to meet with our rock star partners in conservation, The Murie Center. Around Laramie, Wyoming the expansiveness of the undeveloped land softened me and I wondered how long it would be until...
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Tracks of Giants: Feedback on the first stage
It is hard to believe that we are now one third of the way through our southern African journey. This translates as approximately 1700 k’s of walking and cycling through the varied and often spectacular landscapes of Namibia and now, the wooded and largely uninhabited...