Wild Heritage featured in Earth Island Journal!
See the article on primary forests by Wild Heritage in the Commonwealth Forestry Association’s bi-annual newsletter: CFA Newsletter June 2019 Extract.
Our first workshop, on World Heritage, wilderness and large landscapes in the Himalayas. With sincere thanks to National Geographic for sponsoring the event, to ICIMOD for hosting, and to IUCN for partnering in this effort!
Watch – or rewatch – the video on IUCN WCPA Stewards of the Planet. A few years old but still a critical message!
See this new story in Mongabay on forests and climate change featuring IntAct: International Action for Primary Forests steering committee member and President of the Geos Institute Dominick DellaSala, . A sobering fact from this story: logging in Oregon emits almost as much carbon as the dirtiest coal plant on the planet.
Originally scheduled for China in 2019, WILD11, the 11th World Wilderness Congress, has now been moved to India in March of 2020. Wild Heritage is on the executive committee for the event and will lead the primary forest and World Heritage streams.
This picture is looking towards Kilimanjaro National Park (a World Heritage Site) in Tanzania. The problem, aside from the fact that the pictures are not very high quality, is that there is virtually no snow left on Mt. Kilimanjaro, which was once famous for its snow/ice cap. Granted, Kilimanjaro is very close to the equator, but at almost 6,000 meters / 20,000 ft., the highest free standing mountain in the world, you would expect more snow. Climate change has almost melted Kilmanjaro’s snows completely, with only a small sliver of glacier still visible.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), essentially the sister organization to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warns of dangerous and unprecedented declines in biodiversity, accelerating extinctions and at least 1,000,000 species threatened with extinction.
