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The World Land Trust eBulletin Christmas issue 2003Please send comments on the eBulletin content to Helena on .
The Independent helps the World Land Trust to boost rainforest conservationThe Independent, one of Britains leading broadsheet newspapers, published Saturday 6th December a list of the "50 Best Christmas Presents" and featured the World Land Trust (WLT). Since then the WLT office has been flooded with phone and email donations on behalf of friends and family, the feature having caught the imagination of hundreds of people looking for something diffrerent as a gift this Christmas. The attraction of the WLT 'buy an acre of rainforest' is that these acres really exist, and it is possible to visit them. The featuring of the World Land Trust in the Independent has jammed the switchboard at times, but it will mean another area of forest will be saved forever, with all the species that live in it. The WLT was one on the first organisations to 'sell' acres of rainforests, starting back in 1989. The Trust has helped save over 300,000 acres of threatened land around the world and now has urgent fundraising projects in Ecuador, India and Patagonia. Full details of all WLT's projects can be found in the Projects section of our website: www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/
Carbon Balance your Christmas celebrations
 When
the celebrations are over, you might want to spare a thought for the
environmental cost of Christmas. The World Land Trust's Carbon Balancing
website, aims to help you minimise your impact on the environment.
Although not a solution to global warming, saving one Acre
of Rainforest at £25 does help Carbon Balance a family christmas.
Rainforests absorb about 500 Kg of carbon per acre every year, and
store considerably more. Becoming Carbon Balanced could help
prevent global warming by a) reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
through active absorption by existing forests; and b) prevent and
reduce further emissions of carbon dioxide through deforestation.To find out more about Carbon Balancing, visit www.carbonbalanced.org That's all for this time. We will be back with a bigger eBulletin in January. Until then... Seasons Greetings from the World Land Trust
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