‘I think the cheetah project is a worthwhile experiment but not easy,’ says expert
The HinduVance Martin’s first childhood memory was the sight of a woodpecker on a tree in front of his house when he was a year and a half old. “I draw on these every day of my life, even today,” says Mr. Martin, who left the U.S. at 21, a week after he got his degree because he didn’t like what was happening in the country back then. “Our flagship project was the World Wilderness Congress, a very unusual gathering that started in 1977,” says the septuagenarian, pointing out that these conferences have played a key role in strengthening wilderness policy globally. “The current one is being planned, but not by me since I have handed WILD over to another team,” says Mr. Martin, now the president of the Wilderness Foundation Global. Talking about it, he says, “It isn’t an organisation—it is a group of friends working together to do the things we want to do, the things that need doing that don’t need organisational approval,” says Mr. Martin, adding he is entering a new phase of conservation work.
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