A Call to Heal Our World

Join us in transforming lives, restoring nature, and building a healthier, united future

The sun peeks through an ancient forest. Photo: Robin Motzer

Welcome to Wildlands, friends. Today, let’s explore and discover where the wild things live and thrive in Hwange National Park and throughout the world and how you can help the wild.

Enjoy the exquisite, exotic and unfortunately, endangered wildlife, and the sensational sunsets in Hwange National Park and the Khulu Bush Camp.

Thank you for joining us for the art and science of healthcare. I’m really glad you are here! Healthy humans create a world of well-being. You are needed.

It’s a new dawn and a new day! Do you hear a call from the wild to help heal our world?

We share our beautiful world with millions of species, many of which are yet to be discovered, let alone understood. Wildlands shares a wise way of co-existing, peaceably, interconnected, healthy and well while contributing purpose, peace and presence. We can be a gift in our homes, communities and world.

Africa's Hwange National Airport; Sunset in Hwange National Park; A pride of Lions rest at watering hole; Female Lion gazes at her pride; Three Lion cubs drinking at a watering hole; A pride of lions rest in grasslands: A male Lion walks on trails and a Male lion walks in tall grass. Photos: Paul Elo

A Parade of African Bush Elephants near water in Khulu Bush Camp; African Sable Antelope; African Giraffe in Hwange National Park; Giraffes and Zebras intermingle in Hwange. African Bush Elephants drink water at Khulu Bush Camp in Hwange National Park. Elephants and Green Tail Monkeys at a river’s edge. Photos: Paul Elo

Wildlands friends, Paul and Jo Elo’s excellent adventure included about a 40-minute flight from the Hwange airport to Victoria Falls. “The interior of plane was cozy, eight passengers and a pilot,” per Paul.

The Elo’s saw baboons, penguins, hippos, egrets, vultures, antelope, lions and more. There was a total of eleven lions, with three female lions in the Pride. Along the Elo’s tour, an elephant on his morning walk blocked access to the road.

African Bush Elephant blocks the road; Sign at The Painted Dog Conservation Park; A Baboon "flys" between trees, bank of Chobe River, Botswana side; 3 juvenile Baboons drink water at the Chobe River, Botswana, African Penguin at Boulders Beach near Seaforth, Africa; Baboon at Chobe River, Botswana; Hippopotamus, Nile Crocodile and Cattle Egret, on delta in Chobe River between Botswana and Namibia on the Namibia side; Ruppell’s Vulture. Photos: Paul Elo

Through community, connection and service- we create health, well-being and sustainable living for the biota!

The “Painted Dog Conservation” is an essential place that helps the endangered species. At a Conservation Summit, Dr. Greg Rasmussen spoke with me about his book and work to protect the Painted Dogs.

Dr. Greg Rasmussen has studied African Painted Dogs for more than 35 years and is credited in saving them from culling and extinction. Please donate to their organization and buy the fascinating true tale, A Dog Called Circus, by Greg Rassmussen and Jeff Wells.

Dr. Greg Rasmussen, researcher, advocate and author, "A Dog Called Circus", talking with Robin at a Conservation Summit. Painted Dogs sleeping under a tree at The Living Desert. Painted Dog facts in Palm Desert, CA. Sustainable Tucson Habitat Restoration with a native pollinator garden with University of AZ students. Wildlife art at a STEAM event with Robin at The Living Desert. Photos: Robin Motzer

Restor-e self to strengthen resilience for personal and collective transformation. Are you ready for better health and a wild and fun community?

Our mission and ways you will receive wellness from our monthly Wildlands challenges:

1. Empower self. You will receive support for your goals and be given ways to help you. Learn how to handle situations with confidence and calmness. We meet monthly to share your challenges, art and story. You will be heard, seen and given support. Together, we build trust and strength for inner freedom and a better world.

2. Peace, Balance and Release. Desire and care can be unhealthy when it comes from lust and craving. When we share a plea for our world, and share skills to help others, it can help us release unhealthy habits, manage situations and not be affected by them. Inner peace requires reflection, meditation, time in nature before action to reduce, and maybe even unify a conflict. An example of balance: when a tree is cut down, plant a tree.

3. Cooperation and Community. Think, “collabs are fab and be an “actioneer”! We will have centering exercises and include quiet time for reflection before discussions. Wisdom and community help us achieve goals, grow and solve issues together. Being in service, with compassion and empathy, can fix problems. There will be personal challenges given regarding simple, healthy living to restore/ re-story self. And, as part of your well-being, ideas, projects and places to give back to others will be shared. You will also strengthen advocacy that you may already be doing. Wildlands has community projects in several States and welcomes you to engage in our essential work. Reciprocity is a natural form of generosity.

4. Restoration and Transformation. Feeling overwhelmed and a bit unsure of self? We’ll discuss discernment for clarity of purpose. Adaptability helps us move through situations gracefully. We will also discuss how having a rebel mind can free you. New skills, experiences and personal goals will be revealed through play-full exercises. Humility and support heals. New opportunities happen when we connect with self and others.

5. Sustenance and Celebration. Many people struggle with choices and cravings. One example is food: it can harm and it can heal. We will have discussions about self-care, slowing the aging process naturally, and share simple, healthy food and recipes. We’ll celebrate revelations, restorations, releases and transformations of self and others.

Take your next steps to be a part of a wild and growing community:

Join us in a monthly online meeting place where we celebrate our experiences, build trust, communication, creative and healing skills and strength towards better health, well-being and connection with nature, self and others.

Together, we help a new vision for self and our world through trust, restoration, transformation, reciprocity and gratitude for our journey and for being a “peace” of our beautiful world.

Please join Wildlands on June 25, 2025, 1 pm- 2:30 pm EDT, for “The Calm” to calm and connect us for personal and collective transformation.

October Art and Writing Retreat. Robin at an art, poetry, peace and justice show. Photos: Robin Motzer

About Robin

I’m an independent journalist, researcher, teacher, artist, writer and founder of Sustainable Tucson’s Habitat Restoration Committee. We create native pollinator gardens next to food gardens in parks, schools and public spaces. Our gardens are managed organically using what nature intended, including rainwater harvesting.

My holistic health research and experiences have helped me heal from chronic health issues. I’ll share an occasional healthy, simple recipe from nearly 40 years of plant-based nutrition, along with research and experience backed essays on how to heal with plants. I’ve helped Cities, Counties and organizations create native pollinator gardens, organic food and herb gardens to reduce harm and increase health and wellness in the community. I’ve helped others see themselves from a new perspective, re-new, and restore- and thrive. I can help you see YOU in a new light and help you put love in action and reduce harm. Join me as we grow gardens in several States throughout the U.S.

And I’ll see you next Wednesday with some lifesaving natural, simple, inexpensive and ancient remedies for health and well-being and connection with nature. And stay tuned for Africa Adventure Part II later in June. In July, join me in my travels throughout Norway and meet farmers, artisans, wildlife and the land of the midnight sun. Personal consultations, original photos, essays, art, health, restoration, conservation and community are all included in Wildlands.

I’m for hire for health consultations, pet portraits, public speaking, writing assignments, STEAM events and collaborative community work to increase health and reduce harm.

Thank you for hearing “a calling beyond the ordinary” and thanks for sharing Wildlands: A Call to Heal Our World. A paid subscription will give you access to once a month challenges, online community, Wildlands library of resources and community projects— and your support helps keep essential information free for those in need.

Self-Reflection and please comment and tell us:

1. Have you been to Hwange National Park? If so, what wildlife did you see?

2. Would you like to see wildlife and meet people protecting the wild? Join our Wildlands community for trips to see wildlife and wildlands in our guided tours and behind the scenes look at conservation and restoration work. Learn how you can get involved.

3. Do you have an amazing story to share? Be a guest in Wildlands magazine or podcast.

4. Support community projects and an art and writing retreat in an ancient forest in October.

Join us in transforming lives, restoring nature, and building a healthier, united future with education, conservation and community! Advocacy is love in action.