The Power of Being Lost in the Wilderness
Hannah Owen discusses the power of being lost in the wilderness: it enlivens your senses and puts your skills to the test.
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Where Did The Wild Things Go?
In a few pockets of the world wolves have been carefully reintroduced and the effects are proving enchantingly dramatic. With surrounding trepidation they were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. In the years that followed the effects of introducing a pre-existing apex predator have started to unveil. The beaver are being brought back to […]
The Wolf in Our Living Room
There are a few theories as to how the wolf ended up in our living rooms. One is that 30,000 years ago human settlers stole wolf cubs. They then trained these cubs mainly to protect the settlement from predators, especially against the greatest predator of all, other humans. These cubs would also grow to hunt […]
How Wild are We?
The story of Chris McCandless, a 24 year old American who traded in his materialistically comfortable life for one in the wild and who in 1992 two years into his voyage died in the Alaskan outback, has resurfaced recently due to the book ‘The Wild Truth’ published by his sister Candice McCandless in 2014. Over […]
Nature: Who Cares?
Rio de Janeiro is a city of dense high rise buildings, of favelas and bustling streets and there is also ‘another’ Rio, the one that sits on its circumference domineeringly peering in on the city dwellers creating awe and amazement from below, its nature. I spent my days in Rio a city dweller peering up […]
Volunteering: has the once unthinkable become almost normal?
‘Volunteering’, I used to think it had just one clear meaning. And originally I’d started this trip with a rule, not to pay for work, my moral compass was set. It seemed fair not to pay, especially when compared with my parent’s generation who often referred to my numerous volunteering spurts as acts of slavery. […]
Rescue & Refuge in Bolivia
During an afternoon off from working on a permaculture fruit farm on the mountainside of Samaipata, a tropicalesque town teetering on the Amazon basin, we visited the refuge zoo. The greeting, or bombardment, of intrigue and kindness we received from a howler monkey named Cheetah and a doe called Bambi, meant we knew that if […]
The Super Natural
Earlier today we walked across the Argentine border into the color-laden streets of Villazón, Bolivia. Moments later we were aboard a twelve seater minivan, all the while the main attraction of the Bolivian children bemused by our collective mix of ginger hair, strange accents and odd clothes. The mountains accompanied us all the way to […]
Almost Wild in Argentina
Wildlife, life that is wild, in Spanish ‘vida silvestre’, is something Argentina has in abundance. Take the ‘perros de la calle’ (dogs of the street), although not quite feral they are far from their domesticated cousins where I’m from — and definitely more streetwise. Our trip started in Buenos Aires roughly three and a half […]