abstract:The WILD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1974 by South African Ian Player, and based in Boulder, Colorado. WILD states that their vision is to inspire a world that protects at least half of all nature on Earth in a connected way for the benefit of wilderness and communities.
"We took him from near death in Mexico to swimming with wild whales in Norway, " said David Phillips, executive director of the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation.
Over the last seven years 33 black rhinos have been born in the foundation's parks and members of the critically endangered species have been returned to the wild.