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Explore the wilderness with us… This week we share the “golden wilderness”! The rich colors and textures of the wild can never be replaced or surpassed. Within the next 10-15 years we will see the last-remaining wilderness area on earth dominated by the demands of growing human populations and undermined by accelerated climate change. When…
Explore the wilderness with us… Within the next 10-15 years we will see the last-remaining wilderness area on earth dominated by the demands of growing human populations and undermined by accelerated climate change. When the earth’s last wild places are gone, all we will have are fenced off protected areas dependent on constant intervention to persist…
Botswana and Zambia, two premier wildlife destinations, recently banned all trophy hunting within a few months of each other. This move heralds a major shift in thinking about how Africa’s wildlife resources will be managed in the future. Why did they do this? In short: Corruption fueling unsustainable hunting and poaching that threatens species survival.…
“Wilderness”… What does this mean to the modern human being? Why should we value it in our day and age? Why is it there? Is option value enough for people, who will never see it, to protect it? The ambiguity of our relationship with wilderness was illustrated very well by Roderick Nash: “On one hand,…
Watching a pair of fishing owls watching him was all in another day’s work for National Geographic Grantee Steve Boyes, on Vundumtiki Island, deep in Botswana’s Okavango wetlands wilderness. The Okavango Nest Box Project has found that the artificial shelters have become homes to a variety of birds and other animals, including bushbabies (Lesser galagos), woodland dormice, squirrels … and bees.
“We all sat in wonder in the darkness, trying not to talk and feeling like kings of the world, flying among the stars of the Kalahari big sky,” writes National Geographic Grantee Steve Boyes, in this latest dispatch from the Okavango wilderness in Botswana. Boyes and colleagues are checking nest boxes and doing transects on Vundumtiki Island, deep in one of the world’s most remote wetlands.
In the second dispatch from Botswana’s Okavango wilderness, National Geographic Grantee Steve Boyes writes that traveling through the vast wetlands by traditional mokoro (dug-out canoe) across channels, lagoons and floodplains is like “walking on water.”
Living alone in the wilderness far away from civilization had long been a dream of mine. The great writers, scholars, prophets and leaders all took inspiration from the wild. Our religious totems, coats-of-arms, symbols, artworks, stories, myths, poems, legends and writings all bear testamant to the profound impact nature has on us. We named rivers, lakes and…
The Okavango Delta is the last-remaining wetland wilderness in Africa. Cattle, fishermen and farmers are waiting on the edge of this green oasis ready to supplant the resident wildlife and claim Eden for themselves. Read about our research projects and efforts to protect this wilderness by advocating for World Heritage Status and more.
