We are pleased to share details of the February “Green in the City” Forum meeting: Biomass – Unlocking the Supply Chain will bring together senior executives and experts from power producers, investors, technologists and R & D as well as other industry contributors. Our “cleantech question-time” discussion forum will provide extra time for audience participation [...]
African Safari Consultants recently approached the Wilderness Foundation Africa, offering a donation of US$1 for each ‘Like’ on their Facebook page until the end of December. African Safari Consultants have seen much success with previous 1 Like 1 Dollar campaigns and hopes that the public will show their support for this one. “If we reach [...]
Four-part BBC2 series following 6 years of “Windfarm Wars” near Dartmoor. In 2005 BBC TWO commissioned Sevenstones Media to produce Windfarm Wars, then a single observational documentary following the building of a windfarm, a story that was to become one of the UK ’s most divisive issues. Six years later, following the unravelling of this [...]
One of our Sirius 2010 graduates, the talented and creative Emily Dodd has put together a fantastic analysis of her journey into the wild with the Wilderness Foundation last year. In her article, Emily reflects on her direct experiences day-by-day, how her time in the wilderness inspired her and her subsequent journey home. It is [...]
A proposal to relax existing planning guidelines for Pylons (the Holford Rules) could pose a threat to wild places. The Holford Rules state that new lines should avoid, if possible, our most special landscapes including: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs), national parks, heritage coasts, world heritage sites and minimise effects on the setting of [...]
A two day conference focusing on “restoring the natural heart of Europe” has opened in Brussels, Belgium today (16/11/2010). Having received official accreditation from the EC Presidency and support from the European Commission, the conference will review the success stories of restoration across Europe, learn of ambitious plans for new areas and develop a joint [...]
Opened on Monday 19th July, a new community garden highlights the choices that Chelmsford residents can make when planning and planting their own gardens at home. Weather patterns are changing and the forecast is for more extreme climatic events, warmer and wetter winters and hotter drier summers. Essex is already the driest county, so it [...]
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 [...]
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” – which [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
