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Women’s Umfolozi Wilderness Trail 2010

5th – 13th March 2010
Join a group of women on a wilderness trail that is guaranteed to give you time out, peace and quiet, a good laugh, adventure, and time to just be yourself…

Your journey begins with an evening flight on Friday 5th March departing the UK for Johannesburg.  You arrive on 6th March and [...]

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Social Evening at the Natural History Museum in January 2010

After a fantastically successful social evening at the Tate Britain in September, we have planned another for January 2010 but this time at the Natural History Museum, London to see the fabulous Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.
Date: 29th January 2010
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Natural History Museum, London
Come and experience a unique night out [...]

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Wild Leaders Youth Conference

Published on 29 October 2009 by Leigh in Events, Workshops

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Wild Leaders Youth Conference

The second annual Wild Leaders Youth Conference will be taking place on Saturday 28th November 2009 at the University of London Union.
Once again we have lined up an excellent array of guest speakers, panellists and workshops to provide you with a day of learning, interest, fun and activity focused on wilderness, environment, climate change and [...]

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Wild Swans on BBC Radio Essex

Published on 17 September 2009 by Leigh in Events, Media

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Wild Swans on BBC Radio Essex

Tune into BBC Radio Essex on Sunday 20th September at 7.20am
Wild Swans
-  four sixteen year old UK girls who returned recently from the wilderness in South Africa after spending fifteen days with four young South African girls from a very different background, will be talking about their trail and the effect it has had on [...]

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Just Weeks to WILD 9!

Published on 16 September 2009 by Leigh in Events

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Just Weeks to WILD 9!

A large proportion of Mexico’s corporate community came out last Monday to learn about WILD 9.
Club de Industriales played host to 300 people as they discussed corporate environment, programs and listened to updates about WILD 9, the World Wilderness Congress which this year is being held in Merida, Mexico.  Launched by The WILD Foundation in [...]

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Participatory Rural Appraisal Workshops

Published on 16 September 2009 by Leigh in Workshops

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Participatory Rural Appraisal Workshops

To understand why certain communities use species they do and what impact this has, the participatory rural appraisal workshops were started. The workshop was based around indigenous fruit, vegetable, medicinal and timber related species, which in turn led to discussion on species that may be more appropriate.
The team is comprised of members of the Zambia [...]

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Climate Change Fieldwork carried out in Zambia

The Climate Change Programme of the Peace Parks Foundation team recently conducted two large field surveys in an area of the Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), with  the help of the Government of Zambia.
The Zambian KAZA TFCA is home to pristine forest that is unfortunately at threat of both deforestation and degradation, which with [...]

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Mozambique’s Marine Protected Area, a Step Closer to Africa’s First Marine TFCA

On the 19th July 2009 the Government of Mozambique to a step closer to creating Africa’s first Marine Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), when it declared a 678sq km coastline as a Marine Protected Area. This protected area stretches 3 miles into the sea.
The Mozambique Minister for Tourism, Mr Fernando Sumbana, stated that the new Protected [...]

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Facilitative Leadership – Tapping the Power of Participation

The latest developments in leadership practice and theory compel leaders to respect the value and diversity that each person brings, and to share power and decision making. The challenge for us as leaders is how to utilise these values and powers! Facilitative Leadership provides an oppotunity to explore to explore speicific practices, skills and tools [...]

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Social Evening – Richard Long

Published on 14 September 2009 by Leigh in Friends of WFUK

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Social Evening – Richard Long

Tate Britain Richard Long Social Evening photos
What a fantastic evening everyone had at the brilliant Richard Long ‘Heaven and Earth’ exhibition at the Tate Britain, 4th September.  Everyone met up at the gallery for an hour or so of enjoying the beautiful paintings and then most moved along and enjoyed a late supper at the [...]

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