https://wildecosystems.org/home daily 1.0 2024-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1586214551757-0B61WZC6TYFY9P6QJ4QT/IMG_5005.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1586209711615-0FP8MYHCNNLMCERSQ52K/C11E8E2B-32D0-4D25-BD7F-45665FD054F2.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1585695970132-IP18GK3QASVYQEYRJPN0/IMG_8490.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/7781b936-43fa-48bc-81c3-18d0b25f6c32/5D8F5449-DE41-491B-A49E-630C8DEA7A68.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1585696015951-HHOP7BNVGJRZH41V879L/IMG_4488.jpg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1586223437576-VRGLZ2GB0Q60ZT6DLNRM/CB9CA736-52E6-49D8-BB20-326F90977202_1_201_a.jpeg About Us https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1585697294434-40XQ4M4K54JIU1DYEIZK/24074463-CCF9-4728-AE82-52BB41F7202A_1_201_a.jpeg About Us https://wildecosystems.org/katalalixar daily 0.75 2024-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1588110867460-G5CVAUOFT9QHZKKW3KW2/B476E370-4709-4751-9FB9-2B35F2E813B5_1_201_a.jpeg Katalalixar Project - The future Katalalixar National Park and Marine Reserve will encompass the many canals and fjords surrounding the boundary of the new Tortel Coastal Marine Protected Area, a multiple-use marine protected area approved for creation on February 26th, 2018. After roughly a decade of work to protect the fjord waters off the coast of Caleta Tortel, it is now time to strengthen protections for both the terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the Katalalixar National Reserve. The marine habitat of this globally rare archipelago is one of the most pristine of its type and our work will contribute to upgrading protections for its waters, preventing the harmful impacts of industrial salmon aquaculture. The resulting national park and marine reserve will exceed 4.5 million acres in size, becoming one of the largest sea-to-summit protected areas in South America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1588110701201-JL5D2QUANOXXNLA6YQL2/616140B6-2F91-47CC-89A1-8AE86AC82C62_1_201_a.jpeg Katalalixar Project - Katalalixar National Reserve is one of the wildest landscapes in all of Chile, and in the world. Its isolation and difficult access in the Chilean fjords has helped preserve its wild character and contributed to it being largely unexplored. Without prior terrestrial scientific research, this landscape is largely unknown in the science community too; we are working to change that! At approximately 1.65 million acres, this tropical coastal reserve consists of a large array of islands and fjords. In an effort to recategorize and expand protections for this extremely wild and globally unique landscape, our team is beginning the ecological research needed to produce scientific documentation for the creation of a new and expanded protected area in this wild corner of Chile. https://wildecosystems.org/riopascua daily 0.75 2024-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1588117313736-82L3TJHNBORP3SG0F6DA/482722AA-6538-48C9-91BB-A58F5F12574C_1_201_a.jpg Rio Pascua Project - The future Rio Pascua Protected Area will protect up to one million acres of wilderness and provide wildlife space for adaptations to a changing climate. Our park offers a rare opportunity to conserve large tracks of land that support healthy wildlife populations. We currently have 3,600 acres in our conservation area registry program (local, voluntary protection) and will continue to work toward expanding protections for private land within our park boundaries. Additionally, we’ve begun work on a long-term Huemul Survey and Monitoring Program. The main objectives of this program will be to determine the abundance of the endangered Huemul deer and to identify their distribution across this landscape. Furthermore, our research will identify potential corridors essential to connecting separate populations, identify threats facing the species, work to determine how climate change may alter their behavior and work with local stakeholders to protect this species from extinction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1588117080765-05CXX3G6DMBEEBC820X9/D8FCD5E1-532B-49A6-9BB7-EAB72A3A50B6_1_201_a.jpg Rio Pascua Project - Called "The Heart of Patagonia" by local inhabitants, the wildlands of our Rio Pascua Project are a nearly pristine wilderness in one of the most isolated areas of Patagonia. Covering the last remaining unprotected stretch of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, this large landscape hosts untrammeled habitat for biodiversity and some of the least-visited wildlands in the region. Our primary goal for this project is to facilitate the creation of a new protected area by advocating for strict protection of federal lands within the watershed, working with locals to purchase strategic private inholdings from willing sellers to increase connectivity, and restoring degraded wildlife habitat. This future wilderness park hosts habitat for the endangered Huemul deer, permanently protects the threatened Pascua river from mega-hydroelectric projects, preserves the history of the areas first settlers, advocates against the proposed Ruta 8, and protects wildlands at a high-level of biological conservation. https://wildecosystems.org/donate daily 0.75 2024-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1587411554977-5CNEUJIPLL54KY8VTKUG/4EA42AA0-9889-4142-83F3-FED5F89680CE.jpeg Ways To Give https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1587411296968-6OEDEDH9U3749T8ARNP2/A1A3A537-80BD-42A5-8F05-5E2E75132E1E_1_201_a.jpeg Ways To Give https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1587411366471-OQKPDOKDV47P3U0D866T/CFE960CF-E703-45F4-A1EE-6BD2D70EB38A_1_201_a.jpeg Ways To Give https://wildecosystems.org/accomplishments daily 0.75 2025-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1585696015951-HHOP7BNVGJRZH41V879L/IMG_4488.jpg Accomplishments - Rio Pascua Project We worked with local landowners in the southern Aysen Region of Chilean Patagonia to secure voluntary protection for approximately 3,650-acres of wilderness in an area know as a biological hotspot for the critically endangered Huemul Deer. This was our first step toward creating the future Rio Pacua Protected Area, which will permanently preserve approximately one-million acres of pristine habitat for wildlife and protect the Rio Pascua from hydroelectric development threats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1586214551757-0B61WZC6TYFY9P6QJ4QT/IMG_5005.jpg Accomplishments - Looking Ahead Our current projects have moved away from small-scale infrastructure and restoration projects solely in the United States to large-landscape scale parkland creation, wilderness designation and rewilding projects throughout the Americas. In 2025, we are dissolving this organization and planning to rebrand with an even stronger commitment to park creation and rewilding. We plan to increase our advocacy efforts, expand our fieldwork, maintain all of the projects that we are currently working on, and kickstart a variety of rewilding programs for endangered species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/7781b936-43fa-48bc-81c3-18d0b25f6c32/5D8F5449-DE41-491B-A49E-630C8DEA7A68.jpg Accomplishments - Ruta de los Pioneros Project Along with our other current projects and programs, we are working to start an advocacy campaign to protect a large landscape and historic route know as the Ruta de los Pioneros. This project will permanently preserve a Yosemite-scale landscape with pristine habitat, subpopulations of Huemul, and extensive local history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/ce72ddae-db9b-42a0-8219-a47daf168e3c/A0C9EB15-9FEF-42AB-ACF9-F3621BC1EDB1_1_201_a.jpeg Accomplishments - Infrastructure & Stewardship We began public access infrastructure and wilderness activism campaigns throughout Wisconsin. These efforts focused on building sustainable eco-tourism infrastructure and wilderness education. Our infrastructure work included bridge, boardwalk, trail restoration and staircase projects in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Our stewardship work included education presentations, informational tables, film and discussion nights, naturalist hikes and camping trips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1586289498898-YRHLV630QWC1DO4BZJWE/IMG_8490.jpg Accomplishments - Katalalixar Project We started an advocacy campaign focused on designating the future Katalalixar National Park and Marine Reserve, upgrading protections for an archipelago that is a largely unknown fjord wilderness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1587420193033-93AW1G9XVS64201FTMU8/3414470A-B7C4-416A-9BB6-BD9BE59E1028.jpeg Accomplishments - Wilderness Advocacy We started an advocacy campaign to designate the remaining roadless areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan as new congressionally designated Wilderness areas. We began assessing inventories and evaluations of all roadless areas throughout each state to identify lands that still qualified for potential Wilderness designation. This program increased awareness for the last wild areas in the Midwestern Northwoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1585099291845-GWCBSNWWWC6KCGA1OQT4/25185D82-5B99-46BF-B887-696009732FEC.jpeg Accomplishments - Habitat Restoration Wisconsin State Natural areas represent the most biologically diverse and ecologically significant landscapes in Wisconsin, and we were proud to work to restore and rewild these rare lands throughout the state. We implemented science-based techniques focused on eradicating invasive species and restoring ecosystems to complete ecological health through volunteer-based opportunities for community involvement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e79075b2519521d6e5ad2f9/1588117313736-82L3TJHNBORP3SG0F6DA/482722AA-6538-48C9-91BB-A58F5F12574C_1_201_a.jpg Accomplishments - Huemul Program We started a long-term Huemul Survey and Monitoring Program to determine the abundance and distribution of the endangered Southern Andean Deer across our Rio Pascua Protected Area Project. We visited numerous sites within our project boundaries to initiate our long-term Huemul Program and identified priority landscapes for acquisition to protect underrepresented ecological zones and biological corridors.