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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13 March 2013The fate of the Palkachupa Cotinga (Phibalura boliviana) is in our hands, now that a project to conserve its habitat has been shortlisted for a public vote. The vote is organise...
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13 March 2013John Burton, Chief Executive of World Land Trust (WLT), has been named Natural Heritage Champion by the Charity Staff Foundation. John was nominated for the award by Rohini Finc...
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12 March 2013Recent field reports suggest that numbers of Bezoar Goats are increasing in the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge, as a result of site protection measures. Thanks in part to the work of...
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11 March 2013Dan Bradbury, WLT’s newly appointed Digital Communication Manager, found a meeting with Bill Oddie just a little thought provoking. Just one month into my new job at Wo...
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08 March 2013The new Keeper of the Wild in Danjugan, Chai Apale, describes her first few busy months at Danjugan Island Marine Reserve and Sanctuaries (DIMRS). I started work with the Philip...
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08 March 2013Raising funds to buy Danjugan Island in the Philippines was one of World Land Trust's early conservation success stories. To mark International Women's Day, we introduce Ch...
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28 February 2013If you want to see wildlife, then you must explore a forest on foot, and quietly. And that is exactly what Richard Bence did on a recent trip to the Western Ghat mountains in Keral...
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26 February 2013Chris Packham, the newest Patron of World Land Trust (WLT), has shown his support for the Trust in a short video made by WLT corporate supporter Media Bounty. Earlier in the mon...
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22 February 2013Birds & Bees, an exhibition opening at World Land Trust (WLT) gallery in Halesworth on 22 February echoes the Trust’s commitment to biodiversity and nature conservation....
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22 February 2013Against a backdrop of escalating human-elephant conflict in Malaysian Borneo, World Land Trust’s Malaysian partner HUTAN is pressing on with plans to secure a vitally importa...
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22 February 2013Mexico’s Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve is home to a stunning range of flowers, some of which are found in few other places on earth. The beautiful Laelia anceps, for exam...
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22 February 2013World Land Trust’s (WLT) Buy an Acre Appeal has provided funding to purchase land to extend the Cerro de la Luz-Cerro Prieto reserve. The purchase comes not a moment too soo...
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22 February 2013The Barba Azul Nature Reserve in Bolivia’s Beni savanna will form part of a new Ramsar site, the largest ever designated. To mark the 2013 World Wetlands Day, the Ramsar C...
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18 February 2013World Land Trust (WLT) is focusing efforts on securing an elephant corridor on land adjoining the eastern boundary of Corbett National Park in northern India. To achieve this, Wild...
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18 February 2013The efforts of conservationists working to preserve habitat for the endangered Caucasian Leopard in Armenia have been boosted by confirmation of the leopard’s presence. St...
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14 February 2013Bill Oddie has given further backing to the World Land Trust’s (WLT) limerick competition with a reading of limericks written by WLT staff, including WLT Chief Executive, Joh...
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13 February 2013In the run up to Valentine’s Day online retailers will see a surge in spending as people splash out on Valentine’s gifts. But for all online spending on the Give as you...
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11 February 2013Bethan John reports on a bird ecology course at Hill Bank, one of two ecotourism sites managed by Programme for Belize (PfB) – the first ever land purchase project supported...
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06 February 2013World Land Trust (WLT) started its pioneering work more than two decades ago in Belize, a small country in Central America, about the size of Wales. Programme for Belize (PfB) was...
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05 February 2013Share your passion for protecting the natural world this Valentine’s Day by planting trees to improve rainforest habitat In a nature reserve in Brazil’s Atlantic Rai...
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30 January 2013The World Land Trust and its partners in Borneo were saddened to learn from Malaysian wildlife officials yesterday that ten Endangered Bornean Pygmy Elephants had been found dead i...
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25 January 2013During 2012 World Land Trust (WLT) stayed true to its founding mission. The Trust's main aim has always been to raise funds to purchase critically threatened habitats, and t...
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25 January 2013For the past two years, World Land Trust (WLT) has raised a considerable sum of money in a short space of time thanks to Big Give’s Christmas Challenge. However, before we co...
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25 January 2013The year 2012 brought more visitors to the Guapi Assu Bird Lodge than in any previous year, according to Nicholas and Raquel Locke, project coordinators at Reserva Ecológica...
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25 January 2013Dr Matt Edwards, Head of Sixth Form at Sevenoaks School, has come up with an inspired idea to reward his students’ performance with a donation to World Land Trust’s Buy...
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23 January 2013A rare, carnivorous plant has been found in Mexico’s Sierra Gorda, in a reserve recently purchased by World Land Trust (WLT). The tiny butterworts (Pinguicula) were discov...
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21 January 2013Edward Lear is the subject of a new exhibition at World Land Trust (WLT) gallery in Halesworth. Edward Lear is known to many people as a creator of limericks and nonsense verses...
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16 January 2013From space hopping to sky diving, our supporters pulled out all the stops in 2012 to raise funds for World Land Trust (WLT). Looking back over the past year, it’s impossib...
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11 January 2013Chris Packham - charismatic television presenter, spectacular wildlife photographer, author and natural history expert - has become a patron of World Land Trust (WLT). John Burt...
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04 January 2013World Land Trust’s conservation partner in Armenia has successfully agreed a lease of 2,718 acres (1,100 hectares) of land to extend the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge. The addi...
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20 December 2012Guyra Paraguay, World Land Trust’s (WLT) partner in Paraguay, has celebrated its 15th anniversary. Guyra marked the anniversary with a special publication which included t...
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19 December 2012If you believe one interpretation of the Maya calendar, the end of the world is nigh. Although it strains credulity to suggest an apocalypse will take place on Friday 21 December 2...
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19 December 2012Buying a painting from World Land Trust’s gallery in Halesworth is a simple but effective way to support the work of the Trust. And that is exactly what Norfolk doctor John S...
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17 December 2012World Land Trust supporter Jessica McConnell went on a life-changing trip to the Tirunelli-Kudrakote elephant corridor in Kerala, southern India. She visited Cheakady, a new villag...
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14 December 2012For the second year running World Land Trust (WLT) took part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge – and it was no less nail-biting this year than it was in 2011. W...
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14 December 2012CBRE employees have raised an incredible £11,000 for World Land Trust (WLT) following a long-distance cycle ride over the Pyrenees from Toulouse to Barcelona. Nearly 70 ri...
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13 December 2012Saving the Beni savanna ecoregion of northern Bolivia is a priority for World Land Trust’s (WLT) Buy an Acre fund in 2013. WLT is assisting Bolivian conservation organisat...
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13 December 2012The strategic purchase of 54 acres (22 hectares) of land bordering the Matumbo Gap in Brazil will extend a crucial wildlife corridor in the Atlantic rainforest. World Land Trust (...
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13 December 2012Armenian NGO Green Lane has completed a landmark educational project on the sustainable cultivation of medicinal and culinary herbs in Armenia. The project was possible thanks to f...
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05 December 2012World Land Trust (WLT) is hoping to raise £120,000 in the next three days for essential nature conservation work. But, to meet this ambitious target, we need our supporters a...
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04 December 2012One third of the population of Sierra Gorda in Central Mexico migrates to the USA for work. Bethan John meets a wildlife ranger supported by the World Land Trust (WLT) and finds ou...
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04 December 2012World Land Trust’s (WLT) pioneering call to ‘buy an acre’ was first used at the very beginnings of WLT, when we were raising funds for Programme for Belize. Back...
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04 December 2012Step inside a biological melting pot and visit the nature reserves funded by World Land Trust (WLT) in the Sierra Gorda Watch out for the Bad Woman. This is our warning as we se...
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27 November 2012There are clear indications that the Guatemalan private sector will support conservation projects, according to World Land Trust (WLT) chief executive John Burton after a successfu...
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23 November 2012Fabulous pictures of rare and endangered species are revealed in this year’s BBC Wildlife Magazine Magazine Camera-Trap Photo of the Year competition, in association with WLT...
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22 November 2012Thanks to the early responders to WLT’s Caucasian Leopard Appeal we are able to begin negotiations to secure land that will protect Caucasian leopard habitat. Negotiations wi...
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22 November 2012Following a site visit by journalists and World Land Trust’s Mary Tibbett to Borneo, the Trust is more determined than ever to conserve rainforest habitat for the Orang-utan...
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22 November 2012WLT has received well over 350 responses to the questionnaire that was sent online and as a form with the Late Summer newsletter. We would like to thank everyone who completed the...
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22 November 2012High in the cloud forests of Sierra Gorda, a vast mountainous region in Central Mexico, the forests harbour threatened treasures that are protected thanks to a successful conservat...
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22 November 2012World Land Trust (WLT) is looking for ten enthusiastic volunteers to represent the Trust in the Great Manchester Run in May 2013 and in the Great South Run at the end of October ne...
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