World Land Trust News and Updates

Recent News & Updates

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Thursday, November 13, 2008:

Press release: Credit Crunch Proves Bitter Sweet for the World Land Trust 

Latest World Land Trust news:

A third of all charities have been forced to make staff redundant due to the slowing economy, according to Third Sector, the main news source for Charities. However the World Land Trust is clearly bucking the trend, with a rise in donations of 26% for the year 2008. The Trust also feels that every penny donated will now go further due to the worldwide fall in land prices which will enable the purchase and protection of more critically endangered habitat across the globe.

Read this press release in full: "Press release: Credit Crunch Proves Bitter Sweet for the World Land Trust"

WLT-US Project News: World's first protected area for the Blue-throated Macaw 

Latest World Land Trust news:

The world's first protected area for the Blue-throated Macaw, a critically endangered species with a population estimated at just 300 birds, has been created in Bolivia, thanks to Bolivian Conservation organization Asociación Armonía, American Bird Conservancy and WLT-US.

Learn more: World's first protected area for the Blue-throated Macaw (Bolivia)

Tuesday, October 28, 2008:

Vacancy for Restoration Ecology Officer (full-time) 

Latest World Land Trust News

There is currently a vacancy for a Restoration Ecology Officer to join the World Land Trust team at the WLT office in Halesworth.

This is a full-time position to assiste the Restoration Ecology Team in the development and management of the Carbon Balanced programme.

The deadline for applications is 20th November.

Projects News: Possible new species of cat spotted in Ecuador 

Latest World Land Trust news:

A photo sent to the Trust shows what is thought to be a new species of cat, still to be described, which was first seen two years ago in Peru. The Jorupe Reserve, where the photo was taken, is close to the border with Peru and this would be the first known sighting in Ecuador.

Learn more: A New Cat Species for Fundación Jocotoco?

Orang-utan Appeal update: A third of the funding needed has been raised 

Latest World Land Trust news:

In the first three months since the Orang-utan Appeal was launched, we received tremendous support for this vital project, raising over a third of the funding needed. This has enabled negotiations for the land to move to the next level and WLT now has until the end of the year to raise the remainder of funds needed.

Learn more: Borneo project negotiations moves to the next level

Free rainforest teaching resource on CD 

Latest World Land Trust news:

Learning about Rainforests is a CD based teaching resource that is aimed at Key Stage 1 and 2 students, packed with information, activity sheets and two case study posters aimed at students and a separate pack and PowerPoint presentation for teachers.

Learn more: Rainforest education CD for schools

Projects News: A partner exchange with Paraguay 

Latest World Land Trust news:

Silvia Centrón, Bioinformatics Officer at Guyra Paraguay, is spending two and a half month working in the WLT office in Suffolk.

Learn more: WLT's first partner exchange brings Paraguay closer

Monday, October 27, 2008:

Projects News: New land purchase in Mexico 

Latest World Land Trust news:

With financial support from the Farrington Trust, the World Land Trust has been able to fund the purchase of 741 acres (300 ha) of threatened Oak forest in Mexico.

Learn more: New land purchase in Mexico

Upload a wildlife video clip and win prize 

Latest World Land Trust news:

A new, interactive video section has been added to WLT's multimedia website, www.wildlifefocus.org, enabling people to upload their own video clips. As an incentive to get people uploading we will be giving away a pack of World Land Trust Christmas cards to the first 10 users who upload a video. We will also give away a copy of the film "An Inconvenient Truth" on DVD to one of the first ten.

Learn more: New Video sharing section on Wildlife Focus

New downloads on the WLT website: Accounts & Newsletter 

Updates to the WLT website:

The Autumn issue of WLT News, the Trust's printed newsletter is now available to download as a pdf document. Also available is the Annual Review and Abbreviated Accounts from 2007. For hard copies, contact the WLT office.

Download the Autumn issue of WLT News

Download Annual Review & Accounts 2007

Wednesday, October 22, 2008:

Webcam Update: Ants eat router! 

Latest World Land Trust news:

WLT's webcam in Buenaventura, Ecuador, has been offline for some time due to technical difficulties casued by the extremely damp conditions in the tropics - and the fact that ants have eaten the wires inside the router!

Learn more: Ants eat webcam router!

Friday, October 17, 2008:

Online ordering options now available for WLT Christmas cards and event tickets 

Latest World Land Trust news: 

You can now order Christmas cards and event tickets online, thanks to the new WLT online shop powered by Actinic Express.

Visit the World Land Trust online shop

Friday, October 10, 2008:

Project News: Fences removed in Patagonia 

Latest World Land Trust news:

Thanks to funds from WLT supporters, the fences and corrals which were proving to be a deadly hazard for wildlife, have now been removed.

Learn more: Good news from Ranch of Hopes Wildlife Refuge, Patagonia

Wednesday, October 01, 2008:

eBulletin September 2008 issue available online 

Latest additions to the World Land Trust website:

The September issue of the eBulletin, our monthly conservation newsletter, is now available on this website, with contents including:

• Urgent Orang-utan Appeal in Borneo:
  £100,000 Raised, £343,000 Needed
• Ecuador update: new species of frogs discovered
• New newsletter from WLT-US

Read the eBulletin here

Subscribe to get the eBulletin by email

Tuesday, September 30, 2008:

Green Issues: How to stop overfishing 

Latest additions to the World Land Trust website:

"I read a short item in The Ecologist this month (October issue) about Greenpeace dumping 3 tonne blocks of granite in the German North Sea to foul the fishing tackle of bottom trawlers. It struck me as a very neat way of enforcing fishing controls, and one that governments could do well to endorse."

Read the latest Green Issues post: "How to stop overfishing"