Independent lives
People doing the work
only they can do.
These are the independent lives on Wildmind — researchers, writers, naturalists, and wanderers whose journeys are visible here, and whose sponsors are recorded beside every chapter.
Elif Şahin
Independent researcher · Oral traditions
Istanbul & Black Sea coast, Turkey
I document the languages that are disappearing before the world notices they are gone.
Current chapter
Documenting Laz: The Last Conversations
Marcus Adeyemi
Writer · Long-form non-fiction
London, UK
I write about the architecture of forgetting — how cities erase their own memory, and what is lost when they do.
Current chapter
The Forgetting: A Book
Lena Bergström
Naturalist · Arctic ecology
Svalbard & Stockholm, Sweden
I spend winters in Svalbard and summers understanding what I found there. The Arctic is changing faster than we can record it.
Current chapter
Svalbard Invertebrate Survey
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