Wild

Australia's Wilderness Adventure Magazine. Expand your horizons with Australia’s longest running wilderness adventure magazine. With in-depth features and stunning photographs from some of the world’s greatest adventurers, WILD will keep you up-to-date on all aspects of wilderness pursuits.

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Wild

LETTERS

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

GALLERY

SEASONS AND CONNECTIONS • Being outdoors can deepen not only your bonds with nature, they can deepen your bonds with those you love.

APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT • Land managers should ensure that built structures are constructed in tune with natural landscapes.

WIMPS • Gear selection is a process of lifelong education, even for experienced adventurers. Dan discusses the lessons learnt during his recent 800km traverse of California’s Sierra Nevada.

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GREEN PAGES • A selection of environmental news briefs from around the country.

GREEN PAGES

BEHIND THE TASMANIAN MASKED OWL • The story of how an enigmatic but endangered bird of prey became the star of the campaign to protect the Tarkine.

A CONVERSATION WITH ECOLOGIST MARK GRAHAM • New South Wales’ Mid-North Coast is home to some of Australia’s most precious forests, and is a stronghold for threatened species like koalas and greater gliders. Right now, however, forests in the area are either under threat by tourism developments, or worse, being wilfully destroyed by loggers. Mark Graham, who grew up in the area, is an ecologist who runs a network of private conservation areas, takes people on tours, and educates people about the wonders of the Gumbaynggirr Nation. From 2011 to 2020, he worked with the Nature Conservation Council of NSW as a senior ecologist. He talks with Wild’s Editor James McCormack at length about what’s happening in the area.

TACKLING THE FEAR • At New Zealand’s Lake Waikaremoana, Suzannah Marshall Macbeth sets off on her first ever solo overnighter.

ARE BOARDWALKS DISCONNECTING US FROM WILD PLACES? • Boardwalks can help reduce walkers’ impacts, but environmental reasons aren’t the only reasons they’re being constructed. And that, Georgia Doherty argues, comes at a cost.

PLANNING YOUR FIRST EXPEDITION

THE KARENS • The story of an unsung hero and her list of one hundred high points in NSW’s Shoalhaven Region.

PETER MARMION • Teacher, nature guide, explorer, adventurer, sailor, conservationist, storyteller, naturalist, photographer and author Peter Marmion has a self-described, almost religious zeal for acting as an ambassador for Tasmania’s Southwest.

RIDING TO THE THRONE ROOM OF THE MOUNTAIN GODS • The Concordia Trek leads through one of the most spectacular mountain regions on Earth, the Karakoram. Four 8,000-metre-high mountains, including K2, stand here, along with countless 7,000m peaks. Getting here on foot is hard enough, but getting here on bike …? It pushed this team to its limits.

KIMBERLEY DREAMS • The Kimberley Region in Australia’s northwest is home to some of the nation’s wildest and most beautiful country. Local photographer and guide Ben Broady shares with us a stunning collection of images that showcases the area’s magnificent landscapes.

Festivities on Fedders • Re-creating and re-imagining a photo that graced the pages of Wild Magazine back in the 90s led a group of university students on a very different kind of Tasmanian adventure.

UNTAMED • The subantarctic islands to Australia’s and New Zealand’s south offer some of the wildest and most pristine hiking on Earth, with wildlife interactions like nowhere else. Just be prepared to deal with the weather.

RUNNING SLOW TO LIVE LARGE • Katie Lovis set off to run on foot the...