About the World Land Trust
What is the World Land Trust?
The World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity, which protects the world’s most biologically important and threatened habitats acre by acre.
Since its foundation in 1989 (as the World Wide Land Conservation Trust), the WLT has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves, and give permanent protection to habitat and their wildlife.
WLT people
The World Land Trust, based in Halesworth, Suffolk, is run by a small number of staff and interns, many of whom work part-time. Find out more about the people who work for and support the WLT:
Supporter testimonials
How the WLT works
The WLT works with in-country NGOs, who own and manage the land funded by WLT. Photo © Andrew Smiley.
The WLT has a policy of working with local partner organisations, and the Trust does not normally play a direct role in the ownership or the management of the land it conserves.
- Mission, Local Partners and Operation
- Applying to the World Land Trust for Project Funding
- Policies
- Project Selection Criteria
- WLT Accounts and Financial Information
- Frequently Asked Questions
Where we work
The Atlantic Rainforest, one of the areas supported by WLT funding.
The Trust has 27 programme partners and funds projects around the world in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. Find out more about the projects the WLT supports:
Vacancies, corporate supporters and press information
Sir David Attenborough, WLT Patron
