Latest News
Latest News from the World Land Trust (WLT) includes updates from WLT conservation projects, features about our programme partners, news on fundraising activities and all the latest on what is happening at the Trust.
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20 June 2013More than 3,000 people joined Fundación Pro-Bosque’s 20th anniversary celebrations at the first ever eco festival to be held in Cerro Blanco Protected Forest Reserve....
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18 June 2013Roberto Pedraza reports on remarkable finds in a remote reserve. Earlier in the month I enjoyed two of the most educational days I’ve had in many years. I spent them in th...
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14 June 2013In May we announced that Sally Peberday had won World Land Trust’s (WLT) limerick competition. In June she received her prize, which was presented by Bill Oddie. She describe...
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14 June 2013A monster-face akin to Dracula or a smiley friend? Viv Burton describes her enduring attachment to the Axolotl. Axolotl is a short story written by Julio Cortázar in 1952...
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13 June 2013Gil Child has stepped down from the board of trustees of World Land Trust (WLT) after nearly twenty years. His resignation was accepted with regret at the Trust’s annual gene...
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11 June 2013World Land Trust’s decision to use social media to promote its work is showing positive results. In December 2012, WLT’s chief executive, John Burton posted a m...
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10 June 2013The 2013 National Geographic/Buffett Award for Conservation Leadership in Latin America has been awarded to Alberto Yanosky, Executive Director of WLT Partner, Guyra Paraguay. T...
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07 June 2013Inspired by Chris Packham, Dan Bradbury set about introducing his young twins to the natural world. Earlier in the year I went to one of Chris Packham’s Wild Nights Out. C...
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07 June 2013Stuck for ideas this Father’s Day? Encourage your Dad’s alter-ego and get him dreaming about climbing trees in a World Land Trust (WLT) reserve. A Father's...
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07 June 2013World Land Trust (WLT) is delighted to announce that Ravenscourt Park Prep School in south west London has selected the Trust as its beneficiary charity in 2013 and 2014. ...
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05 June 2013Deckchairs designed to raise funds for World Land Trust (WLT) had their first public outing at the Chelsea Fringe. Next to the imposing Battersea Power Station, and in front of...
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04 June 2013Sir David Attenborough, one of World Land Trust’s patrons, has cancelled a speaking tour of Australia due to concerns about this health. On the advice of his doctor S...
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31 May 2013Kites Hill reserve is coming back to life after a long hard winter. Unlike other reserves supported by World Land Trust (WLT), Kites Hill is in this country. It is easy to reach an...
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30 May 2013English Heritage (EH) has committed to using Carbon Balanced Paper for all its visitor guides, which is projected to save 260 tonnes of carbon emissions. Carbon Balanced Paper i...
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24 May 2013BBC Springwatch is back! Now in its ninth season, Springwatch begins on Bank Holiday Monday 27 May 2013. For three weeks, presenters Chris Packham (a patron of Wo...
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24 May 2013In May, Bruno Paladines, Program Coordinator for Nature & Culture International (NCI), visited World Land Trust’s offices in Halesworth. Here he describes his impressions...
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24 May 2013“I feel that we both, NCI and WLT, share the same conservation values,” said Bruno Paladines from Nature & Culture International (NCI) after his recent visit to Wor...
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24 May 2013Three intrepid keepers at Paradise Wildlife Park are doing their bit for tapirs by bungee jumping to raise funds for tapir conservation. The keepers launched their fundraising e...
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24 May 2013Leave a camera-trap unattended and there’s a good chance that sooner or later it will capture wildlife in its midst. Capturing wildlife with an ordinary camera, however, take...
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24 May 2013Currently on display in World Land Trust (WLT) gallery is Jason Gathorne Hardy’s original graphite drawing Herring Gull on the Wing. The work is for sale by sile...
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24 May 2013World Land Trust (WLT) will benefit from your online shopping! That is, if you shop online through Give as you Live, a web platform that makes a charitable donation for every...
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22 May 2013In April, after attending a round table to discuss collaborative conservation in Armenia, Charlotte Beckham, Conservation Development Assistant at World Land Trust (WLT), visi...
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22 May 2013Recent camera-trap footage from the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge has recorded a Syrian Brown Bear and highlights the importance of camera-traps for monitoring wildlife and informi...
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22 May 2013In March 2013, a group of World Land Trust (WLT) representatives organised a birdwatching trip to Ecuador. The party consisted of Nigel Simpson, WLT Trustee, Kevin Cox and Alan Mar...
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17 May 2013In April 2013, Toby Gibson, formerly Web & IT Manager at World Land Trust (WLT), started a four month stint on the road. After more than a month cycling, working on his photogr...
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16 May 2013In Venezuela an island community is working with local conservation organisation Provita to protect the rare Yellow-shouldered Parrot. Every year three million tourist...
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16 May 2013Bethan John meets wildlife ranger Pablo Antonio Millán on Margarita Island, off the coast of Venezuela, to find out more about the Yellow-shouldered Parrot. Ranger Pablo...
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13 May 2013Siri Frost and Richard White of Newton Abbot in Devon decided to take the plunge and volunteer at the Guapi Assu Reserve in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil in September 2011. The...
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13 May 2013A rarely seen Buff-fronted Owl was a very unexpected visitor to the Urraca Lodge in Fundación Jocotoco’s Jorupe Reserve in Ecuador. It burst through the...
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10 May 2013In April, World Land Trust’s (WLT) conservation partner in Colombia, Fundación ProAves won an award for its Programme for the Conservation of Neotropical Migrator...
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10 May 2013From its beginnings in the late 1980s, World Land Trust (WLT) has focused much of its funding on saving threatened habitat for birds. As well as saving forests for endemic birds, t...
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08 May 2013CONGRATULATIONS to Sally Peberday for her Orang-utan limerick which was voted Overall Winner in the World Land Trust’s public vote. An Orang-utan called Joan...
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03 May 2013John Burton, World Land Trust’s Chief Executive, joined an important round table discussion on the future of protected areas in Armenia, on 20 April 2013. The meeting brou...
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30 April 2013Although not the most glamorous of plants, Mammillaria herrerae, commonly known as Golf Ball cactus, is a critically endangered species clinging to survival in the high mountains o...
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26 April 2013To mark Save The Frogs Day on 27 April 2013 we highlight World Land Trust’s favourite frogs. Without wishing to leapfrog other types of frog, there are a few species of fr...
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26 April 2013Recent Glasgow University expeditions to Bolivia’s Beni savanna have produced important survey data on the birds and mammals of the Barba Azul Nature Reserve. The research te...
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25 April 2013An original illustration by Keith Shackleton has been donated to World Land Trust gallery. Proceeds of sale will go to the Trust’s Kenyan Grasslands Appeal. Keith Shacklet...
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25 April 2013World Land Trust is developing its partnership with Nature Kenya (NK) to include tree planting and educational and capacity building activities, in association with NK’s netw...
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25 April 2013A ground breaking conservation alliance in Misiones province has been honoured with an environmental award in Argentina. The award celebrates a multicultural alliance facilitate...
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24 April 2013World Land Trust’s limerick competition is now closed. The judges’ verdicts are in, and prizes are in the pipeline. We had a great response to the competition with 8...
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23 April 2013FUNDAECO, World Land Trust’s conservation partner in Guatemala, has been awarded a grant of £269,445 from the UK government’s Darwin Initiative. The grant will...
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18 April 2013There were no signs of logging, intruders or cattle in February in reserves inside Sierra Gorda patrolled by Keeper of the Wild Abel Reséndiz. In the course of his d...
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10 April 2013BBC Wildlife Magazine has launched its 2013 Camera-trap Photo of the Year competition, its annual global search for the very best remote-camera images. The competition, sponsore...
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09 April 2013Alonso Quevedo has succeeded Lina Daza as Chief Executive of ProAves, WLT’s conservation partner in Colombia. Formerly Director of Conservation at ProAves, Alonso is renow...
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08 April 2013Bethan John meets one ranger whose knowledge of medicinal plants is helping some of the poorest people in Guatemala. Our boat pulls-up to a wooden-planked trail that hugs the cr...
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04 April 2013How can marine conservation benefit poverty stricken fishermen to create a thriving environment? Bethan John visits Rio Sarstún to find out. Our small boat skims across the...
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03 April 2013Chessington Conservation Fund (CCF) is supporting a ranger in Ecuador in partnership with World Land Trust (WLT) and Nature and Culture International (NCI). Chessington Conserva...
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28 March 2013There’s just one more week to go for World Land Trust gallery’s limerick competition, which ends at noon on 5 April 2013. "We have had a great response to...
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28 March 2013A new exhibition at World Land Trust gallery in Halesworth celebrates the hare in spring time. Today we associate eggs and bunnies with Easter, but in fact the tradition dates b...
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26 March 2013“Joe and I had an excellent time,” Louise Robinson told World Land Trust (WLT), after a biodiversity tour of London with her son Joe earlier in the year. London wouldn...
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