World Land Trust Events

 

Elephant Parade London

Date:
3rd May- 4th July 2010

Venue:
Pearly Prince: The Window of Coutts Bank on the Strand

Emerald Queen: The Wonder Room at Selfridges on Oxford St.

Details

Elephant Parade 2010, organised by Elephant Family,  is set to be the biggest public art exhibition ever to be staged in London. The UK’s top artists, celebrities and designers will decorate 250 fibreglass elephants, each 1.4 metre high, in a bid to raise funds for the conservation of critically endangered Asian elephants. The decorated elephants will be displayed across the capital from May to July, with most elephants being auctioned on the 28th June and 3rd July in the grounds of the Royal Chelsea Hospital. However, the Emerald Queen will be the first elephant to be auctioned in the Wonder Room at Selfridges on 23rd June. Funds raised will go to the participating charities.

WLT is one of the Parade’s conservation partners and will be exhibiting two elephants; one of them raising funds solely for WLT and the other, created jointly with Elephant Family under special arrangement, raising funds for a wildlife corridor in India that both organisations are supporting.

The designs so far for the WLT elephants look magnificent and we can’t wait to see them in situ. We also hope that they will raise significant funds for the Trust’s Elephant Corridors Project in India.

Learn more about WLT's participation in the Elephant Parade London »

 Royal Parks Half Marathon - Run for a Ranger

Date:

10 October 2010

Venue:

Hyde Park, London

Details

The Royal Parks Half Marathon will take place on Sunday 10th October 2010 when hundreds of runners will descend on London's magnificent Royal Parks. This unusual half marathon is an ideal way to get fit, help raise funds to save threatened habitats with the WLT and see the glorious autumn colours in London’s parks at the same time.

Starting in Hyde Park, the half marathon goes through St James's Park, Green Park and Kensington Gardens, before heading back to Hyde Park for the finish. Runners will see some of London’s greatest landmarks including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, Trafalgar Square, Marble Arch and the Royal Albert Hall.

The WLT Team will be raising sponsorship for WLT but with a slightly different focus. Over the past 20 years WLT has helped save more than 400,000 acres of land around the world but this land needs to be protected, and funding reserve rangers is a priority.  This event will raise funds to assist our project partners to support the salary of a Reserve Ranger for One Year.

This event has attracted huge support from would-be runners and the WLT team is already full. But, if you are in London, do cheer them on their way.

Learn more about the Royal Parks Half Marathon

 Celebrity Lecture: Mark Carwardine

Date:

13 October 2010 at 7.30pm

Venue:

The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk
Part of Halesworth Arts Festival, 9th-24th October 2010

Details

Zoologist, author and broadcaster, Mark Carwardine, is a Council Member of Halesworth charity, World Land Trust.  An active and outspoken conservationist, award-winning writer TV and radio presenter, last year Mark worked with Stephen Fry on a BBC Television series: Last Chance to See.

Some twenty years ago Mark had worked with the late, great, Douglas Adams on the first series of Last Chance to See, when their journeys took them as far afield as Zaire in search of the Northern White Rhino, China in search of the Yangtze River Dolphin and the Amazon in search of the Manatee. The book of the series was published in 1990 as a companion to the BBC radio series. In 2001 Mark and Douglas were discussing the possibility of new adventures, when sadly Douglas suffered a heart attack and died that year.

Stephen Fry was a close friend of Douglas Adams, and when Douglas and Mark spent their year travelling the world, Stephen lived in Douglas' house, and recalls "taking urgent phone calls to send maps and lenses to faraway places." It seemed a natural evolution that Stephen should take over where Douglas left off and in 2008-09, exactly 20 years after the original journey, Stephen and Mark found themselves heading off in search of those same animals, to look at how they had fared over the past two decades.

Mark will show dramatic and captivating footage from the series along with beautiful images of the endangered species they encountered. He will read extracts from his books and will talk about ‘life on the road’ with Stephen Fry. World Land Trust is delighted to be teaming up with Halesworth Arts Arts Festival on this charity event, raising funds for WLT’s overseas conservation projects.

Mark will also be signing copies of his book.

Tickets: £12.50 from the Festival box office: 01986 874264
Email Address: boxoffice@halesworthartsfestival.org.uk
Website: www.halesworthartsfestival.org.uk