The WWC Chronicles: Tina Tin
Tina Tin, freelance consultant and an adviser to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, participated in the WILD9 Wilderness Management Seminar and Congress at large. Here’s what she has to say….. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the Wilderness...And then there were three
The Copenhagen Climate talks were supposed to be the place where the global community finally achieved broad consensus, providing at the very least a political way forward that everyone could rally behind. Conservationists hoped that this new consensus would include...
The WWC Chronicles: Leonel Perales
Mi experiencia en el Congreso Mundial de Tierras Silvestre/ My experience at the 9th World Wilderness Congress: Efrain Leonel Perales, Ecology Student at Sonora University; Comcaac Community member Desde el momento de que me llego la invitación para ir al congreso,...
International League of Conservation Writers
One of the many outcomes from WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (6-13 November 2009, Merida, Mexico), was the formation of the International League of Conservation Writers. A development of the 3-day Writers Seminar Series, an esteemed group of environmental...
Can We Stop Trying to Control Nature?
This post is an excerpt from an article from the International Journal of Wilderness (April 2000, vol.6 no.1 ) by James M. Glover. I think you will enjoy his insight into what it means to control nature, and if indeed we can protect land without controlling nature....
Update on the Elephants of Pafuri
As mentioned in previous posts, WILD is involved with a project to track elephant movements in Pafuri (a region of Kruger National Park) lead by Wilderness Safari Wildlife Trust. We received an update on the collaring project, which tracks the elephant’s...
Celebration of the Zululand Lions
Below is an expert from a story by Tim Condon in the Zululand Observer celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the lion named “Nkozi.”
World AIDS Day – A Message from Umzi Wethu
Today the world acknowledges the remarkable recent progress in HIV/AIDS awareness, detection, and remediation. As the Wilderness Network commends this progress, it remains confronted daily with the reality of the stigma, denial, and continued contraction of HIV at an...
World Wilderness Congress Legends: 1983, Scotland
This photo from the 3rd World Wilderness Congress (Inverness and Findorn, Scotland 1983) shows Ian Player (founder of the WWC, WILD and the members of The Wilderness Network), Sir Laurens van der Post (journalist, humanitarian, philospher, conservationist, etc), and...News on the Elephants Tracking Project in Pafuri
Tracking animal movements is a key part in large-scale conservation, especially with keystone species such as bears, cougars, elephant and gorillas. Knowing how animals move, seasonal variations and changes due to climate, development or other reasons, can inform...
International Photography Expedition Documents B.C.’s Threatend Flathead River Valley
A team of international photographers, videographers, journalists, artists and avid conservationists (many or whom are members of the International League of Conservation Photographers) journeyed into the wild Flathead River Valley (British Columbia) for 10 days to...Elephant Collaring in Pafuri
Tracking animal movements is a key part in large-scale conservation, especially with keystone species such as bears, cougars, elephant and gorillas. Knowing how animals move, seasonal variations and changes due to climate, development or other reasons, can inform...
Capacity Building Collaboration with EARTH University
One of WILD’s main priorities is capacity building – training people and giving them opportunities to work for a sustainable future. Over the past several years, WILD has collaborated with EARTH University in Costa Rica to provide promising students a...
Anti-Poaching Success, Kissama National Park, Angola
Below are some excerpts from the field journal of Roland Goetz, Warden of Kissama National Park. WILD was one of the first international conservation organizations to take help re-establish Kissama in the late 1990’s, after 25 years of tragic civil war left the...
Mali Elephants Featured in Pachyderm Magazine – Community Outreach in Full Swing
As reported in several previous blogs, the recent drought in Mali threatened the unique Mali elephant herd. The issues of water, access to water and human-elephant conflicts are however not new to the Gourma region. Recently, partners from Save the Elephants (Iain...
Nature Protection in Russia: One Step Forward, One Step Back
Several recent developments in follow up to earlier stories out of Russia are worth noting for readers of Talking WILD. Each demonstrates that Russian actions on environmental concerns remain a mixed bag and in need of continued monitoring by the international...
Andrew Muir & Other Rolex Laureates Featured on National Geographic
Andrew Muir, Director of The Wilderness Foundation (Africa) was honored as a 2008 Rolex Laureate for his work on the Umzi Wethu AIDS orphan project and will be featured in a National Geographic Documentary! The Rolex Awards honor those who “demonstrate a spirit...
Update on Drought & the Elephants in Mali
The field team in Mali has just sent some updates on the severe drought situation which threatened the survival of the unique elephants of Mali. Dr. Susan Canney, our conservation outreach specialist, and Jake Wall of Save the Elephants have been on-ground in Mali,...
Trail Training at Nalychevo Nature Park
Russel Wicka, a guest writer on Talking WILD, is a Supervisory Forest Technician for the Tongass National Forest, Yakutat Ranger District. This article was published in the Winter 2009 Alaska Region SourDough Notes. Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula is home to some...