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Rewilding is restoring wild nature on a grand scale and making our landscapes whole again. Wildlands Network is helping to rewild North America by protecting core reserves, reconnecting them via vast corridors of habitat, and restoring apex predators.

Virginia State Legislature Passes Landmark Wildlife Corridor Bill

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Legislation Will Help Protect Virginia’s Motorists as it Safeguards Wildlife Movement and Migration Corridors Richmond, VA (Feb. 25, 2020) – The Virginia State legislature passed SB 1004 and HB 1695, making Virginia among the first states to adopt a comprehensive program to identify wildlife corridors, protect motorists from collisions with animals and address barriers to… Continue reading “Virginia State Legislature Passes Landmark Wildlife Corridor Bill”…

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Why We’re Migrating to Salt Lake City

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Wildlands Network is on the move: We’re relocating our headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah in January 2020! For the past several years, we’ve been happy to call Seattle home. But as our staff, programs and projects have grown, so too has the operational cost of doing business in Seattle. While our work and staff… Continue reading “Why We’re Migrating to Salt Lake City”…

Challenges and Opportunities for Transboundary Conservation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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Leer una versión en español abajo Conserving the shared ecosystems and species of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands depends on understanding who is in charge of managing the land that species need to recover, persist and thrive. Yet we often ignore or are overwhelmed by the land management aspects of conservation, especially in Mexico where ownership and… Continue reading “Challenges and Opportunities for Transboundary Conservation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”…

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Eastern Wildway Map Presents Vision for an Ecologically-Connected North America

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DURHAM, N.C. (October 22, 2019) – This week Wildlands Network publicly released its Eastern Wildway map, a bold vision for reconnecting and restoring wildlife habitat across eastern North America. The new map covers roughly 50% of the East Coast of the United States and Canada, and is among first large-scale conservation plans to show an… Continue reading “Eastern Wildway Map Presents Vision for an Ecologically-Connected North America”…

A Look Back at Our Deep Ecology Roots in Wild Earth, Volume 1, Issue 1

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As the first month of 2019 comes to a close, we’re taking a look back at our deep ecology roots, with special selections from our inaugural Wild Earth issue. We can only forge ahead, protecting species and ensuring sustainable biodiversity, if we have a clear sense of who we are and what we’re about, as deep ecologists who value the right of all of life to exist in harmony with each other. Photo: Jean Pierre Lavoie

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Reconnecting the Eastern Wildway

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On the East Coast, the challenge we face now is reconnecting the region’s big core forests and wetlands into a network that is more than the sum of its parts, and do so fast enough and smart enough to stay ahead of the second wave of habitat loss due to urbanization marching across many popular parts of the region. Photo: Alexius Horatius

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A New Way of Seeing

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In this guest post, author Andrew Wisniewski discusses his experiences at RumbleX this past March, when conservationists and athletes gathered together to experience wildlife corridors through the eyes of animals. Andrew posits that since man can’t seem to leave the natural world to be wild, the work of the conservationist is forever important. Photo: Kristen M. Caldon