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...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...