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Expand your horizons with Australia’s longest running wilderness adventure magazine. With in-depth features and stunning photographs from some of the world’s greatest adventurers, WILD will keep you up-to-date on all aspects of wilderness pursuits.

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LETTERS

YAY, THE WIND!

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THE CAMPGROUND IS FULLY BOOKED • Changes in NSW national parks are set to make campsites more expensive and less accessible.

REST WISELY • Finding the right place to take a break is an effort worth taking.

WHAT’S COOKING? • Delving into the environmental friendliness of camp meals.

AI’S HAND-Y SOLUTION • New technologies are assisting in the fight against Australia’s feral cats.

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PARKS: WHERE FREEDOM LIVED • Victoria’s Labor government recently fronted a trade-union delegate conference not to discuss labour rights, but instead to back the whims of hunting groups and arms lobbyists who want to hunt in national parks.

A LIVING LEGACY: HENRY BARBER TOURS AUSTRALIA • Henry Barber revolutionised Australian climbing back in the ‘70s. Last year he returned, and continued to spread his message of respect and the power of community.

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE • After decades of many, many tramps in New Zealand’s South Island, Ryan Hansen figured it was time to check out the North. And what he found in the Ruahine Forest Park convinced him that North Island walking deserves more accolades.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS A RETURN TO THE VALE RIVER • After being thwarted on Tasmania’s little-known Vale River a year earlier, a crew of Taswegian packrafters returned to complete one of Australia’s most spectacular packrafting adventures.

DAISETSUZAN NATIONAL PARK: HIKING THE VOLCANIC HEART OF HOKKAIDO

REWRITING THE STORY A Mother-Daughter Traverse of Southwest Tasmania • Before moving to New Zealand, Victoria Bruce had a painful childhood in Tasmania. Now with a daughter of her own, she returned with her to Tassie, home of memories both light and dark, to create a new chapter in their shared lives.

NATURAL FOCUS A FINAL PHOTO ESSAY BY CRAIG FARDELL (1967 - 2025) • Few photographers have captured as many Australian wild places as Craig ‘Caz’ Fardell. And few have done it so beautifully. His outstanding imagery has been regularly gracing the pages of Wild Mag for fourteen years now, since Issue #122; sadly, with his passing in June this year at just age 58, these images—selected by Wild from his vast body of work—will be his final piece for the magazine.

A SELECTION OF TRIBUTES TO CRAIG

HUMBLED AMONG GIANTS • Drew Jolowicz makes the pilgrimage to the birthplace of alpinism: Chamonix.

IN SEARCH OF THE LOVERS OF THE SHADOWLAND • Prostanthera discolor is one of Australia’s most elusive plants, with only a single confirmed community in existence. A team set off into the wilds of NSW’s Wollemi National Park to see if they could find another community of the plant that has not been confirmed since the 1980s.

CIRCUMNAVIGATING LIFE • Diehard hiker Dan Slater has been transitioning towards a new obsession—paddling. And what better place to discover the kayaking equivalent of summit fever than Palau.

NO SURRENDER! TIMOR-LESTE’S LA RENDE! • Given the fact Timor-Leste is one of Australia’s closest neighbours, given the intertwining of our histories, and given the trekking there is so fantastic, it’s time that this fabulous destination was on more adventurers’ radars.

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