Best Wishes

Happy Birthday Wild!

Congratulations on reaching 40. Chris would be proud indeed to see how Wild continues to celebrate wild places and seek their preservation. On looking again at the ideals Chris set out in the first issue of his dream—a dream he held from an adventurous childhood—it is pleasing to see that 40 years down the track they are still being upheld. Technologically things have changed, but at the roots the philosophy has not. I quote the message from Chris in his farewell editorial (Wild Winter 2005):

“From the outset we were adamant that would be ‘different’—it would not be just entertaining but also truly informative, even educational, and it would also do everything possible to ensure the preservation of places.” It is great to see the torch Chris handed on that