A PROJECT has been launched to realise the long-held dream of a conservation corridor between the Camdeboo and Mountain Zebra national parks in the Eastern Cape karoo. Initiated by the Wilderness Foundation and SA National Parks (SANParks), the two-year first phase of the corridor project will launch in mid-May with a meeting in Graaff-Reinet. Read [...]
Starting 1 May, a Wilderness Foundation team of dedicated conservationists will traverse over 5,000 kilometres through six countries, west to east through South Africa on a wilderness trek — they will complete the entire journey on foot, in kayak, and on mountain bike, without the use of motorized transportation. This expedition, Tracks of Giants, will [...]
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority, the Cairngorms National Park Authority and Scottish Natural Heritage are conducting a survey of the public's perception of 'wildness' and 'naturalness' of land cover in Scotland. MVA Consultancy and Research Now have been commissioned to design and conduct this survey using a representative sample of the Scottish [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We thought you might like to see the short video posted on YouTube by The Woodland Trust highlighting the threat to five ancient woods around Stansted, including Philipland Wood, which would be devastated by BAA's second runway if it were to be built. If you haven't already written to register your objections, please do so [...]
In addition to concerns already raised by the Wilderness Foundation UK with regard to the spread of onshore wind farms across the British Isles, the government's former Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David King has now spoken out about his concerns that a great relianace on wind power and associated rising electricity costs could lead to [...]