On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 81

CARLTON WARD JR.: Florida Wild Culture (LINC), a non-profit organization for conservation communications. In 2014, LINC became Florida Wildlife Corridor, focusing its advocacy on the 2015 Glades to Gulf Expedition and on the statewide mission to “Keep Florida Wild.” While at home in the US, Carlton turns his attention toward Florida conservation issues and is engaged in a number of long-term projects aimed at celebrating the state’s vanishing natural heritage as OnV i e w Ma g a z i n e . c om • O a tool for protecting it. He is a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and in 2007, wrote Conservation Photography, the first thesis on the emerging field. His 2009 book, Florida Cowboys, won a silver medal in the Florida Book Awards and Popular Photography featured him for working to save vanishing America. View more of Carlton Ward Jr.’s work at: https://instagram. com/carltonward. O n V iew c t o b e r /D e c e m b e r 2015 81