The Wilderness Foundation UK, a registered experiential learning charity based in Chelmsford, Essex has announced the launch of two short training courses designed to raise awareness of the impact that people have on their environment. The courses will teach participants techniques to minimise their impact in the wild and will be beneficial to anyone who [...]
International wilderness conservation received a major boost on November 7th at the World Wilderness Congress in Merida, Mexico.
Representatives from Mexico, Canada, and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) creating a framework for future cooperation and coordination between the three nations for wilderness conservation.
“This is a historic moment for the National Park Service [...]
News has reached us via our Friend Bittu Sihgal of a wonderful five day festival that recently took place in India, which aimed to raise support for Tiger conservation and highlight the benefits of this work when attempting to mitigate climate change. Over 15,000 people took part in the “Walk for the Tigers” – [...]
We are pleased to make available Wilderness Foundation UK CEO Jo Robert’s and Peace Programme Facilitator Alistair Little’s address to the audience of Wild9, recorded live yesterday morning (Merida local time).
Jo and Alistair gave a presentation entitled “Humanising the Enemy: Wilderness and Peace Building” and outlined the work that the Wilderness Foundation UK, in conjunction [...]
The human race was born, and for millennia was raised in wild nature. Even as technology and economic development have increasingly removed us from natural environments over the last few hundred years, wilderness has nonetheless continued to sustain us, generating the essential services that make possible our economic and social prosperity, our physical health and [...]
The Chairman and Executive Committee of the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) issued today The Merida Message calling for the protection of critical land and sea wilderness areas to mitigate climate change and conserve biodiversity and healthy ecosystems that provide products and services vital to human well-being.
The Merida Message states that runaway carbon emissions are [...]
Fifteen corporations have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to wilderness conservation by signing a Memorandum of Understanding for a Corporate Commitment to Wilderness (CCW) at the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9). The CCW is an initiative of our sister organisation The WILD Foundation (WILD). The CCW’s mission is to collaboratively grow the capacities of the [...]
Wilderness Foundation UK CEO Jo Roberts is currently in Mexico attending the ninth World Wilderness Congress (WWC) – dubbed “Wild9 – Feel, Think, Act.” The WWC is the longest-running, public international environmental forum. It is a conservation project that creates coalitions, establishes time-lines, sets objectives and achieves practical outcomes. Established in 1977, it has in [...]
EPAW – the European Platform Against Windfarms has launched an e-petition on the No.10 website, to set up an independent working party of acousticians and medical experts to fully explore the problems of wind turbine noise and the health consequences,as they claim that ETSU-R-97, the measurement presently used, is invalid and does not protect communities [...]
The countdown to the ninth World Wilderness Congress in Mexico has begun in earnest. With the congress proper launching on 6th November, pre-training has already got under way. Participants in the youth programme today began their three day trek in the Sian Kan wilderness, under the guidance of Outward Bound Mexico, and Kat Haber of [...]
