Latest news from World Land Trust (WLT), including updates from conservation projects, articles about programme partners, and up to minute reports of appeals, fundraising activities and events.
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28 March 2008World Land Trust sponsor Nikwax, a company known for its environmentally safe waterproofing products, has just launched SkitoStop™, a range of high performance insect prote...
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20 March 2008The Carbon Balanced website received top marks in a recent article in Which? Magazine (April 2008 issue). Carbon Balanced is World Land Trust's (WLT) carbon dioxide emissi...
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14 March 2008Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. John will shortly return from a World Land Trust...
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10 March 2008In the latest newsletter from REGUA, WLT's partner organisation in Brazil, Nicholas Locke writes: "REGUA now employs 7 rangers covering close to 7 000 hectares. This in...
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03 March 2008On 10th May 2008, walkers will be heading for the South Downs to take part in the second Just Walk charity fundraising event. One of these walkers is Tara Leaver, who has de...
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29 February 2008A jaguar "posing" on the side of Río Negro, close to the Three Giants Lodge. © Veronique Gerard. See a larger version here. This jaguar was capture...
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29 February 2008New land has been bought in Ecuador adjacent to Yanacocha (top), and in Paraguay in San Rafael (middle) and in the Dry Chaco (bottom). (Click on the images to see larger v...
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15 February 2008Magellanic Penguin © Lee Dingain. Following a mystery oil spill in the South Atlantic Ocean on Boxing Day 2007, Fundación Patagonia Natural, WLT's project par...
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01 February 2008Latest additions to the World Land Trust website Wildlife Focus, the new multimedia website by World Land Trust, has just been updated with virtual tours of the Buenaventura Reser...
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31 January 2008In a remote part of Meghalaya in north-east India, threatened Asian elephants are now being protected by the newly declared Siju-Aretika Village Reserve. The legal declarati...
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31 January 2008These photographs record the growth of the World Land Trust's 'exhibit tree' in the Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador, owned and managed by WLT partners Funda...
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31 January 2008Lou Jost and Sir David Attenborough with an image of the flowers of a newly discovered tree species that will be named in honour of Sir David. Top: The hummingbird feeder...
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31 January 2008Lou Jost and Sir David Attenborough with an image of the flowers of a newly discovered tree species that will be named in honour of Sir David. Sir David Attenborough, Patron...
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19 December 2007Alan Davies and Ruth Miller of The Biggest Twitch have come up with what they call 'The Biggest Idea': To see more bird species in a calendar year (2008) than anyone has ev...
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15 December 2007Bats taking advantage of nectar feeders put up in Ecuador to attract hummingbirds. (Photos © Gustavo Morejón.) Click on the images to see larger versions...
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14 December 2007We recently received this letter from Christine Steiner, who is working on a Red-billed Curassow project at REGUA, Brazil: "Yesterday we saw two males and we heard both emi...
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14 December 2007Cochranella buenaventura sp. nov. - a new species of glassfrog in Ecuador. (Photo by Mario Yánez of MECN.) A new species of glassfrog has been discovered in Buenaventu...
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14 December 2007Common Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) Kirsty Burgess, WLT Conservation Programmes Manager, recently made a site visit to the Tirunelli-Kudrakote Elephant Corridor which is i...
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14 December 2007Top: The Eco club on a visit to the Three Giants lodge, together with Guyra staff. Above: The radio station at Baha Negra. WLT's Web Information Manager, Helena ker...
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14 December 2007Michelle, before the start of the race. To support conservation WLT supporter, Michelle Turner, completed the harrowing Michelob ULTRA London Triathlon on 4th August. Michell...
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14 December 2007Top: Tracie Long headlining the evening. Above: The three WLT/UEA Diploma students who organised the event. South American themed fundraising gig Sunday 2nd December 2007...
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13 December 2007On Wednesday, 21 November, Guyra Paraguay was Ten Years Old. During the year they have held various events to celebrate their ten years of conservation achievement and this photo...
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12 December 2007MyElephantBites.com has introduced a Christmas campaign to get people not to send cards but to send electronic photomovies instead, using their technology that makes it easy for...
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12 December 2007Murray Colemen, CEO of Bovis Lend Lease UK, presents the cheque to WLT Trustee Simon Lyster. Every cloud has a silver lining and that was certainly true of an unusual fund ra...
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11 December 2007WLT supporter Mrs Dixon wrote to us recently concerned about the use of palm oil in so many products. Palm oil is possibly the single greatest threat to rainforests and Friends of...
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27 November 2007Tree nursery, Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador. Click on the image to see more of the nursery. Latest news from our Ecuadorian partners: The tree planting is well under way for...
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27 November 2007This jaguar, believed to be a male, was snapped by the camera trap no less than seven times! (Click on the images to see larger versions.) The photo were taken by camera t...
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13 November 2007Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. When we reached the Humid Chaco, the dry scrub...
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07 November 2007Very few people believe the 'green', 'eco' or 'responsible' claims that practically every business now appears to make. However, increasing numbers of peopl...
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02 November 2007Male Red-billed Curassow. Photo © Christine Steiner. A previous report from REGUA, told of REGUA's re-introduction project of Red-billed Curassows (Crax blumenbach...
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23 October 2007Alternate Umbrella Sunday 23rd September 2007 Southwold, Suffolk Last year the World Land Trust entry for the 'Alternative Clock' won First Prize in the Team category...
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21 October 2007Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. Now that I am back in the UK, the whole Paraguay...
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08 October 2007Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. The last day of my stay at San Rafael had a sp...
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03 October 2007Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. Human impact in the National Park Kanguery, t...
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26 September 2007Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. Atlantic Forest in San Rafael. San Rafael:...
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23 September 2007Trunks meet Trunks 4th-18th September 2007 Hyde Park, London If you happened to be in Hyde Park in London during these dates you would have come across a rather unusual sight...
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18 September 2007Guest blog by WLT's web manager, Helena Akerlund, who spent some time in Paraguay last year volunteering with Guyra Paraguay. I have been "ordered" by John to write...
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17 September 2007Golden-plumed parakeets in a palm tree. Click on the image to see a larger version. The Golden-plumed Parakeet (Leptosittaca branickii is classified as Vulnerable in the IUCN...
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14 September 20077th-8th September 2007 Nature in Art Museum and Art Gallery Wallsworth Hall, Main A38, Twigworth, Gloucester GL2 9PA For the second time, renowned Wildlife Artist and WLT Tr...
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14 September 2007The top photo shows the area before the creation of the wetland; the bottom one shows the completed wetland area. Nocholas Locke of REGUA, World Land Trust partners in Brazi...
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14 September 2007(Top) Mountain Agousti being fed in Tapichalaca. (Bottom) One of the animals visiting the reserve. See a larger image of the Agouti (use your back button to return here.)...
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04 September 2007Muriqui photographed on REGUA's Red Trail in April 2007. Photograph by Neil Burchett. Sightings of the critically endangered Woolly Spider Monkey, Brachyteles arachnoids,...
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04 September 2007Willow elephants 'wandering' through Hyde Park to raise awareness of the threats facing the elephants in India. Today saw the launch of "Trunks meet Trunks"...
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31 August 2007The big blue mouse from Everyclick.com with Helena Akerlund and Sam Ovenden of the World Land Trust. 31 August 2007 The Forum, Norwich If you happened to visit Norwich cit...
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31 August 200717-19th August 2007 Rutland Water World Land Trust attended the Birdfair again this year, in our usual place in Marquee 4, where WLT staff and representatives from our partner...
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16 August 2007The World Land Trust believes that the current rush into biofuel production is misguided - it is a risky and ineffective strategy for reducing CO2 levels and it is destroying natur...
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03 August 2007Stripe-necked Mongoose. This Stripe-necked Mongoose was photographed recently in the new Tirunelli-Kudrakotte elephant corridor being purchased with funds from WLT in Kerala...
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26 July 2007Two curious otters. (Click on the photo to see a larger image.) Alberto Yanosky, of GUYRA Paraguay, World Land Trust partner organisation in Paraguay, sent this fantastic pho...
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26 July 2007The lodge building work in progress... ...and the builders, taking a well deserved break. Funded largely by WLT Council Member, Kevin Cox, the Three Giants Lodge, in...
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25 July 2007Stafford Railway is a small local Building Society which lends throughout England and Wales. It has been awarded the "Lender of the Year" accolade by What Mortgage? magaz...
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