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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25 March 2014Despite extreme temperatures, rangers employed by Foundation for the Preservation of Cultural and Wildlife Assets (FPWC) with support from World Land Trust (WLT) continued to monit...
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25 March 2014World Land Trust (WLT) funds two rangers in the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR), Manuk Manukyan and Gor Hovhanissyan. Vicky Mkrtchyan, Environmental Projects Coordinator at the...
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21 March 2014Employees of BIAZA – the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums - are taking on a Chilli Challenge to raise funds for land purchase in Mexico’s Sierra...
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21 March 2014A fruitful collaboration between two of World Land Trust’s (WLT) partners in Ecuador has inspired the publication of a detailed inventory of amphibian and reptile specie...
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20 March 2014Wild Travel, an official media partner of World Land Trust (WLT) during the Trust's 25th Anniversary year, is developing a partnership with book supplier WildSounds that will h...
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20 March 2014Puro Fairtrade Coffee, a long standing supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), has contributed funds to secure an area of cloud forest measuring 181 acres (73 hectares) inside the Vol...
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19 March 2014Saving Armenia’s Leopard – a conservation project developed by World Land Trust (WLT) – is ahead in a public poll after two days of voting. If enough people ba...
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18 March 2014Workplace bring and buy sales offer a great opportunity to raise money for charity, says Wendy Rushton, who with colleagues raised £3,000 at the local authority in Worce...
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17 March 2014Voting starts today - Monday 17 March 2014 - for six nature conservation projects shortlisted by the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA). Among them is an initiative p...
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14 March 2014Research finds that communities in Uganda feel that they are treated as though they are worth less than wildlife. Letícia Jurema reports on a recent seminar at the Royal Ant...
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13 March 2014Bethan John, our Roving Reporter, meets a team of Bolivian conservationists with an ambitious aim: to produce the first field guide to the birds of Bolivia that will increase envir...
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12 March 2014Guyra Paraguay, a conservation partner of World Land Trust (WLT), has been chosen to help develop an ecotourism project with a focus on birdwatching in the Americas. The Multilater...
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10 March 2014Most nature reserves are too small to halt the decline of once common species, says John Burton, Chief Executive of World land Trust (WLT). He argues that land purchase to expand n...
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07 March 2014A lidded pot by Maureen Minchin has been sold to a private collector, raising £450 to support land purchase in Bolivia’s Beni savanna. Maureen is a long standing sup...
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06 March 2014Pied Hornbills have been seen entering a nest box that was installed in the Bornean rainforest in late 2013. The hornbill nest box programme is managed by staff of Hutan,...
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05 March 2014Bethan John discovers what inspires one couple to take on an extreme fundraising adventure to raise money to protect Bolivia’s wilderness and wildlife. Last year, I undert...
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04 March 2014Fundación Jocotoco (FJ), one of World Land Trust’s (WLT) four conservation partners in Ecuador, has recently acquired a property with potential for high altitude habit...
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28 February 2014Zoos, aquariums and their visitors will be able to support a land purchase initiative announced today by World Land Trust and BIAZA (the British and Irish Association of Zoos and A...
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28 February 2014The natural world is full of moving examples of the bond between mother and young and the maternal love shown by the female cow elephant is particularly touching. New born eleph...
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28 February 2014A stronghold of Andean Condors is now safe, following the purchase of Hacienda Antisanilla, a property measuring 7,000 acres (2,833 hectares) on the western slopes of the Antisana...
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28 February 2014A project put forward by World Land Trust (WLT) to safeguard the endangered Caucasian Leopard has been selected for a public vote in National Geographic Germany magazine. The...
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27 February 2014For more than a decade authors have been supporting World Land Trust (WLT) in a range of different ways – and by buying books written by supporting authors you too can h...
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26 February 2014Here in Suffolk, where World Land Trust (WLT) has its headquarters, spring is in the air. With most of the winter behind us, some of us are starting to think about booking a sum...
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24 February 2014World Land Trust (WLT) is in the process of formalising a partnership with the Iranian Cheetah Society (ICS), Iran’s longest established non-governmental organisation still a...
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21 February 2014Simon Lyster, Vice Chair of the Trustees of World Land Trust (WLT), had a constructive meeting with Sabah’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment on a recent visi...
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21 February 2014Simon Lyster, Vice Chair of World Land Trust (WLT) trustees, describes highlights of his trip to Borneo, where he was the guest of Hutan, WLT’s conservation partner in Malays...
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21 February 2014Simon Lyster visited Sabah in northern Borneo to see for himself the very real threats to the remaining forest of Kinabatangan. He explains why donations to the Born...
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21 February 2014Launched in 2013 by World Land Trust (WLT), the Borneo Rainforest Appeal has now raised £885,000 for WLT’s Keruak Corridor project in Kinabatangan. Donate to Borneo...
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21 February 2014Nick Baker, television presenter and World Land Trust (WLT) ambassador, has appealed to the people of Paraguay to protect the Gran Chaco from deforestation. Nick was speaking at...
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20 February 2014Staff from Chester Zoo have assisted Hutan, WLT’s partner in Malaysia, with the construction of rope bridges for Orang-utans. In September 2013 Nick Davis and Debbi Willia...
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20 February 2014Reserves supported by World Land Trust (WLT) in Sierra Gorda are well protected thanks to a team of rangers, according to Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda...
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11 February 2014In the 2013/14 growing season 80,000 trees will be planted in 131 acres (53 hectares) at Reserva Ecologica de Guapi Assu (REGUA) in the Atlantic Rainforest – breaking al...
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11 February 2014We are very sorry to learn of the death of Miss Jane Pointer on 26 January 2014 after a short illness. Miss Pointer had been a staunch supporter of World Land Trust (WLT) since...
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06 February 2014World Land Trust (WLT) has part funded an 89 acre (36 hectare) extension to Narupa Reserve in north east Ecuador, owned and protected by partner organisation Fundación...
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04 February 2014Give as you Live donations to World Land Trust (WLT) came to £116 in December 2013 - enough to buy an acre of threatened habitat in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador or Me...
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31 January 2014Looking for an original Valentine’s Day present? We recommend a gift donation to World Land Trust’s Borneo Rainforest Appeal in celebration of the magnificen...
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31 January 2014Building on successful carbon offsetting projects in Ecuador, World Land Trust (WLT) has begun developing a new Carbon Balanced project in Vietnam. For nearly a decade WLT has b...
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31 January 2014Under the terms of an exciting new partnership, World Land Trust (WLT) is working with Viet Nature Conservation Centre (Viet Nature) to develop a Carbon Balanced project in the for...
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31 January 2014In our anniversary year we are inviting individual supporters to join a special group of Anniversary Fundraisers to raise funds for World Land Trust (WLT) between now and May ...
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30 January 2014Wild Travel magazine has become an official media partner of World Land Trust (WLT) during the Trust's 25th Anniversary year and will be regularly featuring stories from o...
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29 January 2014Creatures Great & Small, the current exhibition at World Land Trust (WLT) gallery, celebrates the diversity of the animal kingdom, with a focus on otters, which are now re...
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28 January 2014Settling back into work after the winter break is never easy - so here at World Land Trust (WLT) we were delighted to receive in early January a video recorded on Christmas Day sho...
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27 January 2014Funds from World Land Trust (WLT) supporters Travel Republic and SaladStop! have recently extended Cerro-Prieto Cerro de la Luz reserve in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda. On a trip to...
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27 January 2014World Land Trust (WLT) has funded an extension to the remote Cerro Prieto-Cerro la Luz reserve in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda thanks to donations from corporate supporters Tra...
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24 January 2014Reserva Ecologica De Guapi Assu (REGUA) is recruiting a volunteer lodge host for Guapi Assu Bird Lodge in Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest. Guapi Assu Reserve is just two hours...
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21 January 2014Berjaya Elahan is an experienced wildlife warden working for Hutan, World Land Trust’s conservation partner in Malaysian Borneo. In his latest report, Berjaya describes the i...
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20 January 2014Rebecca Armson reflects on her six month internship in the Halesworth office of World Land Trust (WLT). During my first week in the office, staff were buzzing with excitement ov...
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17 January 2014We are calling for online shoppers to support World Land Trust (WLT) by using Give as you Live – in a bid to have 500 Give as you Live shoppers by the end of 2014. If you...
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14 January 2014Green thinking by the private sector has left an unexpected conservation legacy on the outskirts of Ecuador’s largest city, as Bethan John discovers in Cerro Blanco Prot...
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14 January 2014In Cerro Blanco, a forest reserve supported by World Land Trust, Roving Reporter Bethan John discovers that recreating a complex forest is far from easy - but that the investm...
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