[Letter of the Issue] SOLITUDE FOR SMELLY BUSHWALKERS Dear Wild (Re: Your ‘Luxury Lodges = Wilderness Lost’ articles in #178 and #179), We are experiencing the confluence of th ...

“This is the photograph I’d always dreamed of, yet didn’t think possible: Ben Armstrong places the first ever turn in the Federation Peak couloir, and does so in truly remark ...

It wasn’t quite a ‘Pale Blue Dot’ moment, but it was humbling nonetheless. I was putting together the spreads of every cover Wild has ever run and … actually, before I go o ...

Forty years ago, Wild emerged on Australasia’s magazine racks and keen lovers of the natural planet have enjoyed it ever since. It is sobering to think that most current readers ...

Forty years is a long time, whether for a human, a business, or a magazine. And when you consider how much has changed since 1981, it’s amazing that Wild Magazine is still going. ...

It was exactly forty years ago that we’d hitched to Melbourne from Adelaide via Arapiles. The journey had started auspiciously by scoring a lift in a pink Cadillac convertible. L ...

To celebrate Wild’s anniversary, I decided to revisit Issue #1 to see how outdoor gear has changed in four decades. As I turned the pages, names from yesteryear came flooding bac ...

A selection of environmental news briefs from around the country “We’ve got to work out ways to make the tools we have more efficient.” Dotted throughout the dramatic landsca ...

DON’T FRACK THE OUTBACK Fracking, a process for getting gas out of deep shale rock by drilling horizontally and injecting chemicals that fracture the rock, is one of the biggest ...

The Great Barrier Reef follows the Queensland coast—from the remote tip of Queensland all the way down to the iconic Lady Elliot Island offshore from Bundaberg. This immense leng ...