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...
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...
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Return of the Lynx
In my undergrad ecology class at SUNY at Buffalo we studied predator/prey cycles and a well-studied phenomena of ecology is the predator prey cycle of the Canada lynx and Snowshoe hare. I worked in a struggling record store while in college that also had used books...
Protected: Note on the poaching incident at Insegueren, Mali
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“A heart for rhinos”– Interview with Dr. Ian Player
In this upcoming April edition of Africa Geographic, Dr Ian Player–WILD’s founder–is interviewed by Rachel Lang about the past and present rhino poaching crisis. Dr Player is a ‘man of many reasons’ for wilderness: African game ranger, international...
Rhino Briefing in DC
The rhino poaching crisis is escalating daily. Of the world’s total rhinos (approximately 20,000 white rhino, and 4,000 black rhino), 80% are in South Africa, so that is where the poaching syndicates concentrate. So far this year, until 15 March, 135 rhino have been...
Forever Wild-YouTube Intervention
The Ogilvy Cape Town Agency created an interesting analysis of a new strategy developed in a social media campaign for our sister organization, the Wilderness Foundation South Africa. The members of the Wilderness Network, which includes the Wilderness Foundation...Sable Shenanigans, by Ian Michler
The victims of bureaucracy and unscrupulous operators, more than 200 sable antelope have been penned in a new national park in Zambia for almost three years. Investigative journalist Ian Michler filed this special report. (First published in Africa Geographic,...