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...
Tracks of Giants: Thank you & Farewell Namibia
It took us 27 days and 1,490 km to pass through Namibia. And as it so often happens on long journeys, individual days tend to merge the passage of time. As we left the Dobe border post for the Okavango wetlands in Botswana, recollections of those first steps as we...
Tracks of Giants: Personal Reflection
The TRACKS team were due to cross the border into western Botswana today, 27 May, at remote Dobe and to meet PJ Besterlink, old friend and conservation “giant” of Botswana. As the Logistics Manager for the expedition, when I had heard nothing from the team by 6 pm I...