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Since 1974, protecting by connecting: wilderness, wildlife & people. WILD works in a collaborative manner with many cultures & across borders. #CryptoGiving ₿
Boulder, CO
Joined August 2008
📣 Help pass Motion 131 – Protecting the Sápmi Forests 🚩 Sweden is destroying old-growth forests 7x faster than the Amazon. Sámi reindeer herders need global support.💥 @IUCN members vote Aug 27–Sep 10. Amplify their voices now! 🔗 Motion Guide:
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🎧 New #podcast! 🌲 Reindeer herder Anja Fjellgren Walkeapää joins us to talk about Motion 131—Protecting the Sápmi Forest. 📣 @IUCN members vote Aug 27–Sept 10. Let’s get loud for #Sápmi + #biodiversity!.🔗 Listen: 📝 Guide:
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Anja Fjellgren Walkeapää is a reindeer herder in the southern part of the Swedish side of Sápmi. Her reindeer graze in a herding community called Mittådalen Mittahduhlen, and with a master’s degree...
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🎧 Are our views of #wildlife shaped by science—or by stories? 🐺 From ‘big bad wolves’ to honey-loving bears, cultural myths have shaped how we treat animals. With Claire Galloni D’Istria, we unpack these tales & their impact on conservation. #Forthewild.
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Is everything we know about wildlife rooted in science—or is it shaped by cultural beliefs? What role does culture actually play in the disappearance of species? Sometimes, how we act toward animals...
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📣 'We’re not just defending traditions—we’re safeguarding a way of life that sustains the planet.' – Johanna Nilsson 💥 Motion 131 calls to protect old-growth #BorealForest in Sápmi. 🗳️ @IUCN members vote Aug 27–Sept 10. It’s time to get loud. 📎 Info:
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🌿 Sit with someone from your out-group. Listen deeply. Share your story. You might find common values—and shared human experiences that matter most. Read Michelle Reilly’s new essay in #IJW:
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#VoW 🚨 A crisis is unfolding in Kenya's southeastern lowlands. 200+ Indigenous families face eviction near Lake Jipe—home to #elephants & Maasai herders. Zach Mutinda joins Voices of Wilderness to share what’s at stake. 🎧 Listen:
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A humanitarian and ecological crisis is rapidly unfolding in the southeastern lowlands of Kenya, in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. Over 200 Indigenous families are facing eviction from ancestral...
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"Colonialism tried to silence us. Industry threatens to erase us—but the land remembers." – Johanna Nilsson, WILD Sápmi.🚩 Sweden is logging old-growth #forests 7x faster than the Amazon. Sámi herders resist—support them. 🔗
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🎧 Journalist Todd Wilkinson explores 3 urgent ideas: #wild places, #rewilding & de-wilding—the quiet erasure of nature. He sees journalism as activism, asking: Does #wildlife matter? And are we willing to change to protect it? 🌿
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Todd likes to focus on three main ideas that many of us in this community are well acquainted with, and yet rarely stop to unpack them. First: wild places. Second: rewilding. And third: how to...
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🌿 Why does #wilderness speak to us? Dan Abbe explores our connection to wild places in his new essay: ‘The Cross-Cultural Embrace of Wilderness Protection’ 🗞️ Read it in the latest issue of the #IJW: 🔗 Subscribe:
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The International Journal of Wilderness is the tool of choice for wilderness managers and advocates.
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📣 The Future For Nature Awards 2026 are now open for applications! Are you a young #conservationist (aged 18–35) committed to protecting #wild species? Then this is for you! 🗓️ Apply by August 25, 2025 at 23:59 CEST 🔗 Learn more:
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Are you a young (between 18 to 35 years old) and dedicated nature conservationist committed to protecting wild species? Do you combine passion with action to create concrete results in nature...
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#NNH 🌗 Justice isn't just for humans. Critics of large-scale protection overlook the non-human world—seeing Earth as property, not relationships. 🌍 Source: 🌱 Join us:
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🌀 Nature works best when connected. Healthy ecosystems—and human communities—thrive through interdependence. 🌗 Nature Needs #Half unites 70+ groups to protect Half the planet’s lands and seas. 💥 Join us:
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🎧 We've shaped the land for millennia—so why do we still see nature as separate from us? In our latest Voices of Wilderness episode, Dan Abbe explores how we can care for #wild places without trying to control them. 🔗 Listen here:
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Looking back, it’s hard to find a time when humans weren’t part of the natural landscape. We’ve shaped the land for millennia, and conversely, the land has shaped us - yet, we often talk about nature...
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