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With apologies to Max, the central character in Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic Where The Wild Things Are, and his arduous journey “in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room”, Alice the Moose puts his to shame. Alice left her home park in […]
Painter and filmmaker Cory Trépanier has visited and chronicled some of the most remote parts of Canada. He has three major painting projects, each with a film to record the adventure, and a gallery collection of breathtaking works for each area.
On Thursday, March 13, Wild Canada – the first large-scale documentary to comprehensively showcase Canada’s varied and unique natural history, including the role of humans – premieres on the CBC.
When I began my last post for The Green Athlete, I had no idea that I would actually participate in the trek I was writing about. In a rapid sequence of events, I found myself in my Prius on the way to the badlands of North Dakota.
It may stretch our imaginations a little to merge the worlds of marathons and fracking, but that is exactly what is happening this spring in the badlands of North Dakota. Adventure Science is currently carrying out 100 Miles of Wild: North Dakota Badlands Transect, a trek across the badlands to […]
David Brower’s legacy is unparalleled. The visionary activist practically created the environmental movement, and he might be its most controversial and influential figure. Brower transformed the Sierra Club from a group concerned primarily with California into the most powerful environmental organization in the US. Later he founded Friends of the […]
Starting out with entries from bird-lover Ellen Jakubowski, The Wild Side will be a home for posts about animals, plants, wild spaces, ecology, outdoor adventures, and other exciting topics. If you’d like to blog for The Wild Side, email us at blogs@alternativesjournal.ca.
Editorial: The beauty of the beasts – Robert Gibson CITES, the Wildlife Trade and Sustainable Development – D. Scott Slocombe Cast Out of Eden: Peasants Versus Wildlife Policy in Savanna Africa – Joseph Z.Z. Matowanyika An Exchange of Sacred Gifts: Thoughts Toward Sustainable Development – Robert B. Weeden Woodpecker blocks […]
Editorial: Where the wild things are – Robert Gibson The Stein River: Wilderness, Culture and Human Survival – Michael M’Gonigle Roads to Nowhere: Incremental Access and the Shrinking Wilderness – Julian A. Dunster La Conservation de la Nature au Quebec – Jean-Luc Bourdages Wilderness in New Zealand – Colin Michael […]
What should conservation look like in the Anthropocene age? Under the premise that humans have transformed nearly the whole planet in some way, shape or form, Emma Marris challenges readers to reconsider their definitions of conservation, and proposes a paradigm shift in how humans define, perceive and understand nature to […]
