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Sheila Berry has been associated with wilderness in South Africa for more than 30 years. She facilitated wilderness experiences for youth at risk of pursuing a life of crime. She also accompanied youth from violent townships to experience the peace and healing of unique wilderness areas. Her M.A. dissertation “The Therapeutic Use of Wilderness” helped pioneer Wilderness Psychology in South Africa. She is currently WAG ’s Deputy Chairperson and is also a trustee of the Ian Player Foundation, the Magqubu Ntombela Memorial Trust, the Global Environmental Trust, and EarthLore, and is an advisor to the Wilderness Leadership School. She has worked with indigenous people, focussing on hunter-gatherer communities in Africa, and spent four years on Bazaruto island in Mozambique, working with artisanal fishing communities. As a champion of wilderness and environmental and social activist, she has been involved in various successful campaigns including the Campaign to Save St. Lucia opposing titanium mining of vital dunes, and Save the Vaal Environment, a campaign that successfully opposed SASOL's Wonderwater open cast coal mine that would have contaminated the Vaal river and destroyed a vital wetland. She is currently spearheading opposition to Ibutho Coal's proposed Fuleni open cast coal mine on the boundary of the iMfolozi Wilderness Area and affecting 7 villages.