West Highland College UHI is launching a BA (Hons) course in Adventure Tourism Management which starts in September 2014. If you love adventure and outdoor pursuits, then study the BA (Hons) Adventure Tourism Management degree and you will acquire all the skills and knowledge you need to work in the dynamic and increasingly expanding global [...]
Land Management Training Project now live and open for applications The Cairngorms National Park Authority have announced that as part of our support for Land Managers in the National Park, they can now offer a grant subsidy of 30% of training costs under this year’s Land Management Training Project. The current funding is for short courses [...]
Join us at our Chatham Green Project site for our Family Activity Session - Homes and Habitats - where you can explore the different habitats on our farm and build a brilliant bug hotel on Wednesday 28th May. There are two sessions available 10 am - 12 noon or 2 pm - 4 pm. Cost is [...]
The Wilderness Foundation is looking to recruit 5 young women to participate in our 'Wild Swans' Leadership Development Programme.
We were lucky enough to catch some Badger activity on camera recently! The video shows 2 minutes of badger activity as they left their sett at 8.30pm and returned at 1.30am. Enjoy the show! We also caught a couple of stills:
Reception and Year 1 classes from Ford End Primary School visited the Chatham Green Project for an afternoon of bug collection, identification and then some bug art! The group spent an afternoon in the glorious sunshine on the Chatham Green Project meadows using pooters and beating sheets collecting and identifying invertebrates (to order level!). The [...]
Happy Earth Day! Earth Day 2013 is focused on climate change and the many faces it is revealing. Climate change is not just about increased temperatures, it is about all the knock-on effects that come from global environmental change. Whether natural or not, environmental changes are happening on a global scale and it is a [...]
We are looking to choose a set of focal species for the Chatham Green Project and need your help! The Chatham Green Project is about balancing the 21st century needs of farming, nature and people and so part of what we do is to try and create the best habitats we can across the farm. [...]
On the 19th April, Wilderness Foundation staff led a MARISCO workshop with Writtle College's Level 3 Animal Management students. The students were asked to put themselves in the shoes of farmers, house builders, local residents, environmental activists, fishermen and rambling groups in a multi-stakeholder threat analysis workshop based on the CMP Open Standards principles. Conflicts [...]
On the 16th April, the Wilderness Foundation visited Ford End Primary School to teach their pupils about the 7 'Leave No Trace' principles. The whole school took part in an interactive assembly where they were introduced to the 7 principles and asked to help apply them to various situations. Later on in the day, one [...]
Over 1200 trees were planted this past weekend when the Wilderness Foundation UK and Strutt & Parker Farms hosted the first of many community tree planting days to celebrate the creation of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Wood on their site in Chatham Green. Around 80 people attended with visitors coming from as far [...]
Wild Mindfulness course in beautiful Cornwall. 23-29 June 2012. Bringing mindfulness practice down to earth... The purpose of the ecoSelf project is to encourage people to live within ecological limits motivated by their embodied sense of ecological identity – rather than moral obligation, ethical duty or rational debate. The project is the professional home of David [...]
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 [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK is pleased to announce that we are now seeking to recruit a full-time staff member, who will be responsible for managing our wilderness trails and youth programmes. Based at our offices in Broomfield, Essex the successful applicant will be responsible for all aspects of our young environmental leaders programme - impACT; [...]
The August 2008 issue of the International Journal of Wilderness has just arrived! This issue features news from Africa, Europe, Mexico and Russia as well as articles featuring Recreation Trends and Wilderness, Rural Community Perspectives on Roadless Lands and the Water Forest of Mexico. Subscribers can expect to receive their issue by early August. Don’t [...]