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Last chance 🌿
Mentee applications to join the 2026 #GlobalMentorshipProgram close tonight at 11:59pm! Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with inspiring conservation leaders from around the world, gain valuable mentorship, and become part of a global community shaping the future of conservation.
Apply at the link in bio!
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This is your moment to step into a global, cross-generational community shaping the future of conservation. 🌎
Meet your mentor. Find your people. Grow your impact.
If you’ve been thinking about applying to the 2026 Global Mentorship Program, this is your sign. Apply by May 6th at the link in bio!
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Mentorship shapes lives and the future of conservation.
For 34 years, one mentor relationship helped shape the WILD Foundation as we know it today. That legacy lives on through every connection we foster.
The next generation of conservation leaders doesn’t just need opportunity. They need guidance, perspective, and support.
Are you ready to make a difference in someone’s future?
Join the 2026 Global Mentorship Program as a mentor. Applications are open until May 27 at the link in bio!
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Are you ready to grow into your role as a conservation leader?
The Global Mentorship Program connects emerging leaders (35 and under) with experienced professionals across the conservation space offering guidance, support, and real-world insight.
Learn from those who’ve been there. Apply to be a mentee by April 29th at the link in our bio!
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Applications for the 2026 Global Mentorship Program are now OPEN!
Join us as a mentor or a mentee for six months of cross-generational collaboration. 🌍🤝 Connect with emerging leaders in conservation and seasoned conservation professionals.
Apply at the links in bio 🔗
The future of conservation is built through intergenerational connection 🌍
The 2026 Global Mentorship Program applications open April 1st! This program brings together emerging environmental leaders and experienced conservation professionals to learn, share, and grow together.
Whether you’re looking to guide the next generation or shape your own path, this is your opportunity to be part of something bigger.
🔗 Applications open next Wednesday, April 1 — link in bio
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📣 Join CoalitionWILD’s 2026 EXCELerator Program!
The EXCELerator program is a six-month leadership and capacity-building initiative designed to help youth implement projects that drive lasting change in their communities or environments.
If you’re passionate about making an impact in the conservation sector, this program could
be the perfect fit!
💬 ‘‘The program isn’t just about learning; it’s also about building confidence—in your project and in yourself as a leader.’ -Viviana Solange, EXCELerator alumni Yanez Gomez
🔗 Learn more through the link in bio!
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🎧 Viviana Solange Yanez Gomez is the force behind 18,000 Trees in Ecuador, a country famous for its incredible biodiversity, cities, and landscapes.
Although Viviana grew up surrounded by nature–hiking mountains and forests, she simultaneously watched these ecosystems get damaged. That early experience sparked her path toward conservation.
🌳 Today, she leads 18000 Trees, 18000 Puembeños, a community-led urban reforestation project in Puembo, Quito. Their goal? To plant 18,000 trees–one for every resident–over six years, restoring ecosystems, creating habitats, reconnecting green spaces, and building climate resilience.
Viviana is also an alum of CoalitionWILD’s EXCELerator FLEX program. With applications for the 2026 EXCELerator program opening on October 27th and running through November 24th, we thought there couldn’t be a better time to sit down and chat with such an inspiring individual.
📣 The EXCELerator program is a six-month intensive program that trains emerging conservation leaders to turn ideas into real-world action projects.
🔗 Link in bio!
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📣 Applications for CoalitionWILD’s 2026 EXCELerator program open next week, on October 27th!
It’s a six-month intensive program that trains emerging conservation leaders to turn ideas into real-world action projects.
💭 ‘The program isn’t just about learning; it’s also about building confidence—in your project and in yourself as a leader.’ -Viviana Solange Yanez Gomez, EXCELerator Alumni
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‘Displacing these people breaks a generational connection with the land, with their livestock, with animals, and also with the water in the ecosystem.
🌿 They are not the owners of this land. But if I were to put it in that context—compared
to how the modern world views resources—I would confidently say this: People are the guardians of the Jipe ecosystem. This is their ancestry. This is their central and starting point. This is the epitome of the Jipe community.
🐘 And as we speak today, this is the only community that lives with elephants every day, with minimal negative interactions and no retaliatory attacks on wildlife.’
The people Zachary Mutinda, Project Lead of the Eco Jipe Program, speaks about in a Voices of Wilderness podcast episode are among more than 200 Indigenous families facing eviction from ancestral lands they have inhabited for generations.
Fencing poles were erected around entire settlements starting on July 2, 2025, cutting off vital routes that have been used for centuries by Indigenous communities, livestock, and wildlife.
‼️ If we do not act now, we risk losing not only a people’s home—but one of East Africa’s most vital ecological and cultural heritage sites.
🎧 Learn more by listening to Zach on Voices of Wilderness, as he describes what he sees as a ticking time bomb in one of the region’s most critical potential human-wildlife conflict hotspots.
🔗 Link in bio!
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