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.
Latest News
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13 August 2015TV presenter Bill Oddie will be making a special guest appearance on behalf of World Land Trust (WLT) in September. He will be on stage at the WI Centennial... -
13 August 2015Ranger Armando Manzaba has recorded six Great Green Macaw (Ara ambiguus guayaquilensis) in the north west part of Cerro Blanco Protected Forest. The Great Green Macaw is Critica... -
10 August 2015World Land Trust (WLT) has helped fund a hanging bridge for the people of Jade Gindam in India, as a compensation measure for the protection of the Rewak-Emangre Elephant Corridor.... -
06 August 2015World Land Trust (WLT) went wild at Camp Bestival with a tent full of creepy crawlies (made out of pipe cleaners!) and brilliant displays of wild animals. Steve Backshall, TV pr... -
31 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) and Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) have established a partnership to conserve land under private ownership, in India. AERF works with lo... -
31 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) has launched an appeal for £750,000 to fund WLT’s wildlife ranger programme (Keepers of the Wild) until 2020. WLT’s Keepers of the Wild... -
31 July 2015Nature and Culture International (NCI) has a goal to protect 20 million acres of biodiverse habitat in Latin America by 2020. To achieve this target, NCI is widening its fo... -
31 July 2015Sign up Sign up for a Sainsbury’s shopping card with Give As You Live: shop in store using an Everyday Shopping Card and Sainsbury's will donate 4 per cent of you... -
30 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) has received endearing footage of a young Syrian Brown Bear in Armenia’s Caucasus Wildlife Refuge, thanks to Armenian partner Foundation for the Preser... -
29 July 2015Five year old William Herrington-Young has taken part in a Scootathlon to raise money for World Land Trust (WLT). He was joined at the event on 24 May by his twin sister Mira... -
29 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) and the Gloucestershire branch of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) have marked the tenth anniversary of their conservation partnership. The focus o... -
29 July 2015Nick Brown and Rohini Finch have been appointed Trustees of World Land Trust (WLT); their nominations were confirmed at the Trust’s Annual General Meeting on 25 June 2015.... -
28 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) has released a video of 2014 conservation highlights. The film was shown at a reception following the Trust’s Annual General Meeting on 25 June 2015.... -
28 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) has released a video in recognition of all those who helped make WLT’s conservation programmes possible in 2014. First presented at the Trust’... -
28 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) is supporting grass roots projects in Peru that are successfully demonstrating community led approaches to nature conservation. In partnership with Natura... -
23 July 2015Film maker and photographer Matt Traver has donated a Canon Digital Rebel XT camera body for a ranger funded by the Keepers of the Wild programme of World Land Trust (WLT). Rang... -
22 July 2015While Britain has been basking in sunshine, Charlotte and Jim Gabbitas braved the snow to reach the top of Mont Blanc. On 25 June 2015 Charlotte and her father Jim climbed to th... -
22 July 2015To raise funds for World Land Trust (WLT), Zoe Li ran the Hadrian’s Wall half marathon on Sunday 28 June 2015. Zoe is a former volunteer at Shepreth Wildlife Park, which h... -
15 July 2015Television presenter Steve Backshall has thanked World Land Trust (WLT) in a video about the Devizes to Westminster (DW) kayak race and his commitment to saving an area of rainfore... -
03 July 2015World Land Trust (WLT) is one of five signatories to a new fundraising alliance that aims to raise £20million to ensure the future survival of wild Asian Elephants in India.... -
30 June 2015Tree planting projects in Mount Kenya are thriving, say staff of World Land Trust (WLT) following a field trip to Kenya to monitor progress. WLT’s tree planting in Kenya i... -
30 June 2015The only reserve owned by World Land Trust (WLT) is providing a wildlife sanctuary for insects and amphibians, mammals and birds. Donate to the Action Fund Kites Hill w... -
29 June 2015The tiny Buffy-tufted-ear Marmoset is on the brink of extinction in the wild but conservationists are determined to save it. Miranda Stevenson reports on a plan to protect the spec... -
23 June 2015Following an urgent request for funding, World Land Trust (WLT) has made an eleventh hour donation from the Action Fund to save important habitat for the rare Santa Marta Parakeet... -
22 June 2015Chessington Conservation Fund (CCF) has agreed to fund an extension of the Nangaritza Reserve in southern Ecuador with a £25,000 donation to World Land Trust (WLT). The pu... -
19 June 2015Wildlife artist Paul Bartlett has donated £1,278 to World Land Trust (WLT) following his Back to Nature exhibition at the Scottish Ornithologists Club in Aberlady.... -
19 June 2015Ranger Berjaya Elahan is on the conservation frontline in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, where World Land Trust (WLT) has been funding land purchase to create wildlife corridors sin... -
12 June 2015Chris Beard is setting off on a solo hitchhike from Wales to India to raise money for World Land Trust (WLT). His journey starts in July and along the way he will be trying to unco... -
12 June 2015In February Vivek Menon, Executive Director of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) visited Yerevan to help deliver a practical training course on preventing illegal wildlife crime f... -
12 June 2015Rangers Antonio Teixeira Nunes and Messias Gomes da Silva are the backbone of much of the fieldwork carried out in Guapi Assu Reserve in Brazil’s Atlantic forest. Messias als... -
11 June 2015Keeper of the Wild Pablo Millán is staying vigilant in the protection of Yellow-shouldered Parrot (Amazona barbadensis) nests in Chacaracual Community Conservation Area (CCC... -
11 June 2015World Land Trust (WLT) corporate supporter Swarovski Optik will be donating a pair of 8x30 CL Companion binoculars for the prize draw at Birdfair 2015. The prize draw will be pa... -
10 June 2015Blake Perkins and Vanessa Graham from Leeds University are raising funds for World Land Trust (WLT) by hitchhiking from Leeds to Marrakech, Morocco. On 19 June 2015, the pair wi... -
09 June 2015The sighting of an Annamite Striped Rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi) in north-central Vietnam by a University of East Anglia (UEA) research team is a promising sign for World Land... -
03 June 2015World Land Trust (WLT) corporate supporter Puro Fairtrade Coffee has released the second in a series of films about WLT project areas in South America. The video focuses on the... -
03 June 2015Curraghs Wildlife Park has saved 20 acres of tropical Choco forest in Colombia thanks to three donations to World Land Trust (WLT). The wildlife park made two donations of... -
03 June 2015Ranger Albert Tucker is a ranger employed by Programme for Belize (PfB) with funding from the Keepers of the Wild programme of World Land Trust (WLT). His work is risky and dangero... -
01 June 2015Silvio Calderon, a Keeper of the Wild funded by World Land Trust (WLT), came face to face with a Spectacled Bear in Yanacocha Reserve. The reserve is owned and managed by Fundaci... -
01 June 2015Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School (RPPS) has raised an amazing £22,332 for World Land Trust (WLT). Pupils at the school selected WLT as their chosen charity from a... -
01 June 2015To celebrate Father’s Day on 21 June 2015, World Land Trust (WLT) has five Rococo organic chocolate Artisan Bars to give away. The draw will be held on social media. To en... -
31 May 2015Funds from World Land Trust (WLT) have saved two areas of mountain habitat to extend the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge, which is owned and managed by the Foundation for the Preservation... -
31 May 2015Cerro Prieto-Cerro la Luz Reserve has been extended by another 86.5 acres (35 hectares) thanks to World Land Trust (WLT). Donate to Buy an Acre The reserve is owned and manag... -
30 May 2015How many birds can be seen in a single day around the world? That question was answered on Global Big Day, an internationally coordinated bird count on 9 May 2015. Bennett... -
30 May 2015Thanks to their inspired fundraising efforts, 44 supporters have raised more than £60,000 for World Land Trust (WLT). In early 2014, WLT called on supporters to join a gro... -
29 May 2015World Land Trust (WLT) has donated funds to help create San Isidro Amphibian Reserve in the western highlands of Guatemala. The reserve measures some 2,070 acres (838 hectares)... -
29 May 2015A 30 year lease of forest habitat in Khe Nuoc Trong has been signed by Viet Nature Conservation Centre (Viet Nature), Le Thuy District People’s Committee and Dong Chau Waters... -
29 May 2015Following recent earthquakes in Nepal, World Land Trust (WLT) has launched an emergency appeal for funds to assist anti-poaching measures in the Nepalese national parks. Donate... -
27 May 2015Staff at Three Giants Biological Station in the Chaco-Pantanal are constructing lookout towers beside trails in the reserve to enable researchers and visitors to monitor birds and... -
26 May 2015Conservation projects in Argentina, Brazil, India and Iran are all benefitting from the success of the Big Cat Appeal in the 25th Anniversary year of World Land Trust (WLT). WLT... -
21 May 2015Andrew Barnes is a long standing supporter of World Land Trust (WLT). In this guest blog he calls on other WLT supporters to join the debate about protecting European habitats and...
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