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Cause for Celebration: Wilderness’ 2022 Highlights
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Wilderness Blogger
12/13/2022
It's been a remarkable year for Wilderness
In addition to our big rebrand 2022 has been an unforgettable year in many ways – counting many milestones and achievements. Before we head into our 40th year, we look back on the past 12 months, and the incredible highlights they brought.
The protection of wildlife – always at our core
Off the grid
Getting off the grid: Wilderness currently generates more than 4,523,080 KWh (kilowatt-hours) of energy each year through its renewable resources – enough to fully power 443 average-size houses for a year.
Community comes first
Marienfluss conservancy
Also in north-west Namibia, as part of our ongoing mission to support Wilderness Serra Cafema’s neighbours in the Marienfluss Conservancy, we helped set up a fully-fitted mobile clinic worth USD1.5 million for the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services, to provide basic health care to the Himba community at Otjinungua.
Abundant awards
Wilderness scored more than two dozen awards this year, in both hospitality and conservation categories. Among them:
Three decades of flying high
Our airline operation Wilderness Air, turned 30 this year. Thirty years of connecting guests to the wilderness as well as flying our staff and camp supplies between our destinations, safely, comfortably, and efficiently. Forty pilots flying 29 aircraft on at least 70 connections daily is no small feat. We couldn’t be more proud of how far we have come since our inception back in 1992.
Wilderness Vumbura Plains: refurbished, renewed
Wilderness Toka Leya: refurbished, renewed
Kafue’s biospheric leap
Zambia’s Kafue National Park joined the UNESCO Biosphere Network. Providing recognition for what we’ve always known to be true – that this is one of Africa’s most significant wetlands, offering a wildlife extravaganza like nowhere else on Earth. Wilderness’ Shumba and Busanga Bush Camp can’t wait to welcome more visitors to this remote wilderness and expand our conservation in the area.
Tomasz Szpila
Africa in Focus winner
Africa in focus winners
Polish photographer Tomasz Szpila won our sixth annual ‘Africa in Focus’ international photographic competition, beating a field of entries with his image of a young chimp and its parent in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Proceeds R300,000 went to our non-profit, Children in the Wilderness, to support their ongoing eco-training of the young, future custodians of Africa’s wilderness.
The new brand
In early November our new branding was rolled out to the heart and soul of Wilderness – our staff. The reception was enthusiastic, the collective energy contagious.
We Are Wilderness
With our rebrand this year, we started our most exciting chapter yet. A new name, new logo, new website, new tone, new visual approach – but still the same cutting-edge company dedicated to helping protect the world’s wild places. We mark four decades of creating life-changing journeys, and the launch of new branding that better represents us and our journeys to come.
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