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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12 September 2013If we don’t act now to save the Golden Poison Frog we may drive this extraordinary species to extinction. Bethan John meets Keeper of the Wild Venancio whose job it is to pro...
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12 September 2013In the Chocó of Colombia people are suffering the aftermath of years of armed conflict. Although living in relative peace, they watch helplessly as incomers destroy the...
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11 September 2013World Land Trust (WLT) has helped safeguard more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of Colombia’s threatened Chocó Rainforest. Buy an Acre » In the past few...
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10 September 2013World Land Trust and Lily and Lionel have collaborated on a stunning range of silk scarves to raise awareness and funds to help protect African Elephants. The exclusive Loo...
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09 September 2013A legacy of £6,350 from the Hugh Anderson Legacy Trust has been made to World Land Trust (WLT) specifically for Jaguar conservation. Jaguars are present on man...
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03 September 2013World Land Trust (WLT) continues to build on a successful conservation partnership in Mexico with a land purchase of nearly 600 acres in Sierra Gorda. Buy an Acre » Tha...
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29 August 2013Less than two months after a remote camera caught a tantalising glimpse of a Caucasian Leopard in the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR), a second video taken in daylight has provided...
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28 August 2013A record number of Yellow-shouldered Parrots have fledged this year in Margarita Island, Venezuela. Donate to Keepers of the Wild » This success is due to protecti...
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28 August 2013Daisy East represented World Land Trust at a recent Conservation Evening at Chessington World of Adventures. Here she gives an account of the event, and of her experience of volunt...
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27 August 2013After a few years of quite frankly miserable summer weather in the UK, 2013 has proved that in a good year, summer in Britain is unbeatable. So, if ever there was a good t...
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19 August 2013World Land Trust (WLT) has launched its biggest ever appeal aiming to raise one million pounds to secure a wildlife corridor for Bornean Orang-utans in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo...
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14 August 2013For the first time ever, an Andean Condor with a satellite transmitter has been released in Ecuador. The young male condor, named Felipe after the farmer who rescued him, w...
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09 August 2013Dan Bradbury, Head of Digital Communications at World Land Trust (WLT), is one of the judges of WLT's Wild Places competition. Here he gives his reaction to some of the im...
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08 August 2013World Land Trust (WLT) has played a key role in setting up the San Rafael Fund for Biodiversity Conservation, worth one million US dollars. The endowment fund will provide a lif...
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07 August 2013Dan Bradbury, World Land Trust’s Head of Digital Communications, reports on an exciting week. On 9 July World Land Trust (WLT) received word that a Caucasian Leopard had b...
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18 July 2013With more than 300 entries from 60 conservation projects, the Camera-trap Photo of the Year competition is on course to showcase a range of extraordinary pictures for ano...
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18 July 2013Thanks to the generous support of a donor in Germany, World Land Trust (WLT) has helped fund the expansion of Fundación Jocotoco’s Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador by a...
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18 July 2013World Land Trust (WLT) has committed to fund a ranger in Güisayote Biological Reserve in western Honduras through the Trust’s Keepers of the Wild programme. WLT...
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17 July 2013For four years, Jo Kingsbury worked with teams from Glasgow University surveying the diversity of mammals in Bolivia’s Beni savanna region. The expeditions focused on the Bar...
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17 July 2013Wildlife artist, and former President of the Society of Wildlife Artists, Bruce Pearson spent five days working in World Land Trust (WLT) gallery at the beginning of July as the ga...
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17 July 2013World Land Trust (WLT) has received a positive response to its new look website, which was launched on 8 July. The overall appearance of the site has been improved. It now...
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15 July 2013Ruth Stanton-Saringer looks back over six months as a World Land Trust intern. I joined World Land Trust (WLT) in October 2012 on a six month Project Development Internship desi...
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11 July 2013A competition running until 9 August is raising awareness of the conservation value of the pristine places of the Philippines. One of the 25 locations competing for votes is the pr...
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10 July 2013Leopards are elusive animals at the best of times but in the vicinity of the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR) it was eight years since one had been seen. If it hadn’t been for...
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05 July 2013Plummeting to earth upside down, and dressed as tapirs, Paradise Wildlife Park keepers showed bravery indeed – and have so far raised nearly £2,000 for World Land...
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04 July 2013In June, for the first time, Sir David Attenborough’s video endorsing World Land Trust (WLT) was not the most watched video on WLT’s YouTube site. Month in, month ou...
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02 July 2013Miranda Stevenson, former Executive Director of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA), has become a Trustee of World Land Trust (WLT). John Burton, WLT...
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01 July 2013A mobile green wall has gone on display in World Land Trust (WLT) gallery to mark the launch of Halesworth’s Anglia in Bloom bid. The wall, which will be on display until...
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26 June 2013Simon Barnes, Nicola Davies, Su Ingle and Chris Jenkin called for action to save the destruction of the world’s last wild places, at an event organised by World Land Tru...
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26 June 2013Undeterred by storm clouds and showers, the doughty SCCP cycle team completed their Tour de North East Suffolk in good heart – and have so far raised more than £1,200 f...
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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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