The WILD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1974 by South African Ian Player, and based in Boulder, Colorado. WILD states that their vision is to inspire a world that protects at least half of all nature on Earth in a connected way for the benefit of wilderness and communities.
WILD works in three sectors: policy and applied research, with decision-makers in government, business, and community; field projects that integrate the needs of wilderness, wildlife and people; and communications, through publishing, media and the arts. The WILD Foundation is known for approaching wilderness conservation by training managers of protected areas, developing approaches to conservation, cooperatively launching new organizations and working with communities to protect nature.
Their work spans continents, from the Mali Elephant Project and In the Tracks of Giants in Africa to CAT in WATER, a fishing cat media project in Thailand; WILD10 in Europe; to the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon and work close to their home in Boulder.
Read more about WILD Foundation: History, The World Wilderness Congress, Nature Needs Half, Projects, Affiliations, The Wilderness Network, Publications
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