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Wild Heritage joins call for U.S. to rejoin UNESCO
Wild Heritage joins US ICOMOS and 16 other organizations in a call for the U.S. to rejoin UNESCO and pay its dues. See the letter here.
Cyril Kormos joins Wild Europe Board of Trustees
Wild Europe has long functioned as a key network working towards wilderness and primary forest protection in Europe and has been a close working partner of Wild Heritage on numerous initiatives. Wild Europe has now achieved foundation status (after registering in The...
Protect the Tongass National Forest!!
Read about Wild Heritage Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala's work to protect the Tongass National Forest in Mongabay's recent article!
Wild Heritage Executive Director starts new term as IUCN WCPA Vice Chair for World Heritage
Cyril Kormos started a new 4-yr term as IUCN WCPA Vice Chair for World Heritage. He will continue to sit on the IUCN WCPA Steering Committee and serve as a member of the IUCN World Heritage Panel. The new Steering Committee held its first meeting in May in spectacular...
Nearly 100 Scientists Call on the BC Government to Protect Primary Forests
Covered by The Globe and Mail and Canada Press and NRDC READ LETTER
Press Release: Oversight Hearing to Examine Whether Efforts to Thin Forests to Reduce Fire Risks are Failing at Scale
For Immediate Release - March 15, 2022 Oversight Hearing to Examine Whether Efforts to Thin Forests to Reduce Fire Risks are Failing at Scale. Existing and growing body of field studies reveal that the Forest Service has cherry picked success stories while ignoring...
Wild Heritage: A Founding Member of the Climate Forests Campaign
The Climate Forests Campaign: calling on the Biden Administration to let older trees grow For Immediate Release Contact: Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist, [email protected] Washington, D.C. (February 15, 2022) — More than 70 groups have launched...
Read Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala’s OpEd in The Hill
See Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala's Op Ed in The Hill on U.S. forests and climate change.
COP26 Blog
Read our closing thoughts on COP26 and forests! Wild Heritage COP26 Blog Photo: Jaime Rojo
Wild Heritage joins open letter to Biden Admin.
Wild Heritage is a lead signatory on an open letter to the Biden Admin. calling for the removal of provisions in the budget reconciliation and infrastructure bills that will worsen climate change. See the letter Scientists Open Letter Nov. 4 on Logging and Fossil Fuel...
