by Amy Lewis | Nov 18, 2011
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...
by Amy Lewis | Nov 14, 2011
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...
by Amy Lewis | Nov 2, 2011
by Emily Loose | Sep 15, 2011
A few weeks ago, ICOSA, a Denver CO based organization, hosted Harvey Locke on their radio show to talk about large landscape connectivity, the Yellowstone to Yukon conservation initiative and Nature Needs Half. ICOSA’s community based approach lead to a great...
by Vance Martin | Jul 29, 2011
The landscape of the human body is a “wilderness” in its own right. For longer than anything else created by wild nature, the bodyscape has been a place of exploration and a source of continuous experiential revelation, as well as an object of adornment, abuse, and...
by Emily Loose | Jul 28, 2010
An interesting article in the Huffington Post yesterday brought up an interesting conversation – one which I have personally contemplated for a while. Many times, TV shows, documentaries or movies about nature provide an educational experience for viewers. ...
by Emily Loose | Mar 24, 2010
The Western Wilderness Conference will take place from April 8-11 at the University of California in Berkeley, California. Sponsored by the California Wilderness Coalition and the Sierra Club, the Western Wilderness Conference includes organizations from all twelve...
by Emily Loose | Jan 18, 2010
One of the many outcomes from WILD9, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (6-13 November 2009, Merida, Mexico), was the formation of the International League of Conservation Writers. A development of the 3-day Writers Seminar Series, an esteemed group of environmental...
by Emily Loose | Jan 13, 2010
This post is an excerpt from an article from the International Journal of Wilderness (April 2000, vol.6 no.1 ) by James M. Glover. I think you will enjoy his insight into what it means to control nature, and if indeed we can protect land without controlling nature....
by Emily Loose | Jul 31, 2009
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...