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“Wild Exchanges connects experienced nature guides across countries and ecosystems so they can learn from one another, strengthen transformational guiding practices, and help more people become committed conservationists.”
Exceptional nature guides do more than identify species or explain landscapes. They help people notice more, understand more deeply, and care enough to act.
A powerful encounter with the natural world can change how someone thinks long after the journey is over. Visitors may arrive looking for adventure and leave caring deeply about the places, wildlife, communities, and living systems they have encountered.
Wild Exchanges asks a simple question: What if more guides had the opportunity to strengthen that kind of transformational guiding, learn from other excellent guides, and pass what they learn on?
Hosted within Purely Wild, Wild Exchanges draws on PW’s deep roots in conservation, landscape stewardship, and human engagement with wild places — amplifying that reach through the people who bring wild landscapes to life for others.
Wild Exchanges creates 2–3 week peer exchanges for experienced nature guides.
Exchangers are hosted by experienced guides and guiding organizations in other countries and ecosystems. Wild Exchanges will begin with the strong relationships already established in southern Africa and South America and grow carefully from there.
Each Exchange is shaped around three things:
An Exchanger might guide alongside local hosts, learn new approaches to interpretation and storytelling, explore ways of helping visitors read landscapes and ecological relationships, and share their own skills with guides in the host community.
Wild Exchanges is built around multiplication.
An experienced guide takes part in a peer Exchange. That guide returns home with new ideas, questions, practices, relationships, and perspectives.They use what they have learned with visitors. They share it with colleagues. They may mentor other guides. Those guides, in turn, reach still more people.
Over a career, a guide may encounter hundreds or thousands of visitors.So the impact of an Exchange does not stop with the guide who travels.
One guide can influence other guides. Each guide can influence many visitors. And those visitors can become people who understand, value, and act to protect the natural world.
Over time, Wild Exchanges can become more than a series of individual Exchanges. It can become a body of knowledge created by guides working in different ecosystems, cultures, and guiding traditions around the world.
10 pilot Exchanges. We want to prove that the idea works. This is a proof-of-concept period. We will use it to test and refine participant selection, matching, preparation, logistics, follow-up, evaluation, and the ways guides share what they learn.
10 pilot Exchanges. We want to prove that the idea works. This is a proof-of-concept period. We will use it to test and refine participant selection, matching, preparation, logistics, follow-up, evaluation, and the ways guides share what they learn.
Two guides — one from Chile and one from Argentina — will participate in a field exchange in South Africa.
Hosted by Purely Wild — 3 weeks in the field alongside local guides and conservation teams.
Lessons captured through field notes, interviews, photography and film.
Two guides — one from Chile and one from Argentina — will participate in a field exchange in South Africa.
Hosted by Purely Wild — 3 weeks in the field alongside local guides and conservation teams.
Lessons captured through field notes, interviews, photography and film.
Wild Exchanges is a lean, relationship-driven programme. Philanthropic support underwrites guide travel, accommodation, local transport, field access and exchange costs. Your contribution directly connects guides and strengthens conservation practice across ecosystems.