Help us save the Fishing Cat!
Morgan and Joanna of our CAT in WATER team sent us the latest update on their field expedition in Thailand. The girls are making great progress on tracking the fishing cat and even captured their first glimpse on the camera trap! Read what the team has to say about...
Think Before You Walk, by Ian Michler
There’s a decided feel-good factor to cuddling a lion cub or riding an elephant; it’s something that, given half a chance, many of us would do without thinking twice. But would we be contributing to research and conservation, as wildlife-encounter...
Wilderness Foundation director Andrew Muir wins prestigious award!
Andrew Muir, CEO of The Wilderness Foundation (WILD’s sister organization in South Africa), has been named the Ernst and Young Social Entrepreneur for 2012. Andrew, a globally recognized leader in the urban social aspects of nature conservation, is also a...
CAT in WATER
“CAT in WATER” – our multimedia initiative focused on the shy and threatened fishing cat — is literally coping with too much water! The CAT team, Morgan and Joanna, arrived in Thailand last week in the midst of the worst flooding in a century. A simple two...WILD receives the 2011 National Bob Marshall Wilderness Stewardship Award
It’s official! WILD is honored by the US Forest Service as this year’s recipient of the Bob Marshall Award for Group Champion of Wilderness Stewardship. This award recognizes our dedication to wilderness stewardship, partnerships with the US land...Watch the Polar Bear migration in northern Manitoba
Every year an estimated 1,000 polar bears linger outside the small Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze over. This year, a group of organizations are partnering to bring a front row view of the annual migration to anyone around the...
Big Bend/Rio Bravo, USA-Mexico conservation success
Good things often take awhile, and are worth waiting for… In late 2008 we were planning practical outcomes for WILD9 (the 9th World Wilderness Congress), with The WILD Foundation and our partners trying to create better wilderness awareness in Mexico and better...
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A Bison Blog—From Yellowstone to Haarlem
In a recent, three-day period I had wild encounters of a similar sort on two continents. Both encounters tell a story of past and current “re-wilding,” enabled through the vision and dedication of people and organizations that understand the essential role of wildness...