The WILD Foundation is a nonprofit organization under the 501(c)(3) tax classification. It was started in 1974 by two people from South Africa and is located in Boulder, Colorado.
The Rewilding Institute is an organization dedicated to combining traditional methods of protecting wildlife and wildlands to promote large-scale conservation efforts. It was founded by environmental activist Dave Foreman.
Michael Ellman Soulé was an American biologist born on May 28, 1936, and died on June 17, 2020. He is known for his work in promoting conservation biology. He was born in San Diego, California, to Berenice (Ellman) and Herman Herzoff.
Conservation biology is the study of how to protect Earth’s natural resources and the variety of life on the planet. Its goal is to save species, their homes, and ecosystems from too fast extinction rates and the loss of how living things interact. This field uses knowledge from both natural and social sciences, as well as practices in managing natural resources.
Adaptive management, also called adaptive resource management or adaptive environmental assessment and management, is a step-by-step process that repeats over time to help make strong, thoughtful decisions when information is limited. This method uses system monitoring to reduce uncertainty over time. It helps achieve goals related to managing resources while gathering information that improves future decisions.
Ecosystem-based management is a method used to study and protect environments by considering all parts of an ecosystem, including humans, instead of focusing only on one problem, species, or service. This approach can be used in both land and water environments, though each has its own challenges. In marine areas, these challenges are harder to measure because some species move long distances, and changes in the environment or human activities can quickly affect habitats.
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), also called Maritime Spatial Planning, is a tool used to help leaders and groups who care about the ocean organize sea areas under a country’s control. This is done based on social, ecological, and economic goals to make smart and teamwork-based choices about how to use ocean resources in a way that lasts. MSP often uses maps to show a clearer view of a marine area, including where and how the ocean is used and what natural resources and habitats are present.
The Chagos Marine Protected Area, located in the central Indian Ocean within the British Indian Ocean Territory of the United Kingdom, is one of the largest officially designated marine protected areas in the world. It is also one of the largest protected areas of any kind on Earth, whether on land or in the ocean. The area was created by the British government on April 1, 2010, as a large, connected marine reserve.
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, also called the Leeward Hawaiian Islands, are a group of mostly uninhabited islands and atolls located northwest of Kauai and Niʻihau in the Hawaiian island chain. Politically, these islands are part of Honolulu County in the U.S. state of Hawaii, except for Midway Atoll.
The Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument, which was previously called the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, is a collection of U.S. Pacific Island territories that are not officially organized or fully incorporated. These areas are managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the Department of the Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), part of the Department of Commerce.