SOS Primates is a non-profit organization based in Barcelona, Spain. This extensive multi-disciplinary team is made up of experts in the fields of primatology, animal wellbeing and biodiversity conservation, whose mission is to participate in the protection and conservation of primates whilst raising awareness of their threats in the wild. Registered in 2012 SOS Primates …
Wilder International director Dr Matyas Liptovszky has recently been appointed as a trustee for the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. With this comes an opportunity to help shape the way in which the trust delivers its conservation goals. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading conservation charity run by local people for the benefit of local wildlife. …
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This week saw specialists in chimpanzee care and protection gather together for the very first chimpanzee workshop of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Hosted by Valencia Bioparc, this group of 50 wildlife health, care and conservation professionals from 12 countries successfully shared essential research and knowledge on topics as critical as illegal trafficking, …
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The World Zoo and Aquarium Animal Welfare Strategy has been just published. Wilder International founder and director Matyas Liptovszky was one of the lead authors on the Conservation and Animal Welfare chapter, providing a contemporary overview of how these two fields should work together to maximise both animal welfare and conservation impact. As both of …
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Over the first week in October, Wilder International collaborated with the Sutton Bonington Climate Crisis and Biodiversity Action group and the University of Nottingham to run three conservation events at the Diamond Jubilee Woodlands in Sutton Bonington, East Midlands. The three events saw nearly 80 volunteers come together to remove, process and recycle around 3,000 …
From the 19th-22nd September members of the community can become citizen scientists for the weekend by testing the water quality in a water body in their local area. Wilder International also participates in surveying areas of the River Soar and smaller water channels here in the East Midlands. This will help to expand our knowledge …
Wilder International have joined the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trusts community group ‘The Wilder Nottinghamshire Network’. This collection of like-minded organisations is dedicating their time and resources to support nature recovery across Nottinghamshire by sharing learning and best practice. Wilder International will be connecting with individuals, groups and other conservation organisations to support their rewilding efforts by …
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As a trustee of the elephant health charity Southern Thailand Elephant Foundation, Wilder International founder Lorraine Miller had the opportunity to help to organise the charities first in person event on World Elephant Day 2025. Lorraine and her fellow trustees gathered at Blackpool Zoo, one of STEFs charity partners to run the event, raising awareness …
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Wilder International are pleased to have joined the many members of Conservation Network of Optimists Worldwide! The Conservation Network of Optimists Worldwide, or ConservationNOW is a collection of member organisations and individuals working to inspire, motivate, equip, support, and empower conservationists around the world, so that collectively they can all be more effective at sharing …
The AlpKit Foundation have generously supported a new community engagement project by Wilder International to involve the local community in litter picking events around the East Midlands. Wilder International will join forces with other community groups in the area to deliver litter picking events in nature reserves and woodlands in the region to improve the …
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