by Emily Loose | Apr 24, 2011
OR, I’m going to AFRICA?!?!! Today, I head out on a great adventure. I’m sitting at the Denver airport with WILD’s President Vance Martin, about to embark on an amazing journey. Over the next few weeks, we’ll visit with partners and programs...
by GuestBlogger | Aug 16, 2010
As the world’s population exponentially explodes, demand for additional living space and resources for survival greatly increase. To supply this demand, we compromise the integrity and survival of the natural world and existing ecosystems around us. As a result,...
by Vance Martin | Aug 13, 2010
News reports today verify that public, governmental, and financial markets are beginning to react against Coal of Africa’s mining operations that are damaging the Maqpungubwe National Park and World Heritage area. As we mentioned yesterday on TalkingWILD, the damage...
by Vance Martin | Aug 12, 2010
A priceless World Heritage Site in South Africa is highly endangered by an open-cast, coal, strip-mine operating recklessly right on its boundary – and that is now set to expand! Mapungubwe National Park – a World Heritage Site and critically important transfrontier...
by SusanCanney | Aug 4, 2010
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by Vance Martin | Mar 8, 2010
The WILD Foundation was born in the African wilderness. Last month I was in Southern Africa to review a few of our projects, attend board meetings, and to be with our network of colleagues and friends who form the backbone of our work there for wilderness, wildlife...
by Emily Loose | Feb 22, 2010
EDUCATION: EDUPEG: 7 Schools within the programme at present but the project is not really achieving the required results. It appears that most schools are only using the materials when the Edu-peg educators visit the village and are not really integrating this into...
by Emily Loose | Feb 18, 2010
My experience at the Wilderness Management Seminar and WILD9, Carla Mora-Trejos, Clemson University Graduate Student I visited wilderness in my home country, and in one of these places I found a reason to live, it showed me where I am supposed to go. Unfortunately,...
by Emily Loose | Jan 4, 2010
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...