Latest News
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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18 October 2010On 13 October World Land Trust (WLT) welcomed the highly respected and often outspoken conservationist Mark Carwardine to Suffolk, when he gave a talk on his career as an award-win...
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18 October 2010World Land Trust (WLT) welcomes the publication of proposed reforms for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). As a result of failings exposed within the IPCC, the I...
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15 October 2010World Land Trust’s (WLT) online Carbon Balanced calculator has been treated to an upgrade. We have aimed to keep the look the same so you might not even notice, but dig...
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13 October 2010The World Land Trust (WLT) team raise much needed funds for reserve rangers thanks to your support. The gruelling four months of training paid off last Sunday (10 October) as...
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07 October 2010World Land Trust’s (WLT) African partner Nature Kenya has completed the purchase of 51 acres of threatened grassland on the Kinangop Plateau, Kenya, with funds provided by WL...
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06 October 2010Andrew Haslen is no newcomer to WLT Christmas cards. We have featured his designs on hares several times and these have been bestsellers. This year we have produced a wonderfully d...
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06 October 2010As part of the International Year of Biodiversity, the Natural History Museum London(NHM) is sending an expedition into the Paraguayan Dry Chaco. Collaboration between NHM, Minis...
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01 October 2010The Atlantic Rainforest of Misiones Province Argentina. One of the WLT Buy an Acre projects.Buy now while we can hold the price As supporters will know, WLT aims to be as transpare...
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01 October 2010The Karnataka Forest Department in India recently announced a plan to purchase a large section of privately owned land, which will secure wildlife corridors for elephants in this s...
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30 September 2010World Land Trust (WLT) recently received a large quantity of books donated by a supporter. The books are in nearly new condition and will be sold by WLT over the coming weeks on eB...
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29 September 2010Research by MSc student Radhika Timbadia from the University of East Anglia has found that cattle grazing may be the main cause of disturbance to the community composition of fruit...
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20 September 2010In August, 40 Yellow-shouldered Parrot (Amazona barbadensis) chicks successfully fledged and flew free in the area of La Chica, Margarita Island, Venezuela. World Land Trust (WLT)...
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20 September 2010This year, as part of our 21st Anniversary celebrations, World Land Trust (WLT) teamed up with BBC Wildlife Magazine on an innovative photographic competition especially for Camera...
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09 September 2010World Land Trust (WLT) has supported tree planting activities at REGUA (Reserva Ecologica De Guapi Assu), Brazil since 2004 and a recent report indicates that, to date, an impressi...
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19 August 2010World Land Trust (WLT) has launched the ‘Defending the Chaco’ appeal on the WLT website in a bid to help reverse the devastation to the Paraguayan Dry Chaco. Aeria...
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18 August 2010Victoria Crowed Pigeon (Goura victoria) nesting in the Tropical Realm at Chester Zoo Photo © Andrew Owen, Curator of Birds.The rebuild of the Word Land Trust’s (WLT) RHS...
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12 August 2010Roberto Pedraza, Technical Officer from World Land Trust (WLT) Mexican partner Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda (GESG) recently took part in a workshop on climate change with Mr. Al Go...
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12 August 2010Field Ecology Course for local UniversitiesWorld Land Trust’s (WLT) Brazilian project partner, REGUA, have a growing research programme which involves encouraging universitie...
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12 August 2010Radio broadcasts on sailing boats in Argentinean waters are helping to protect Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). This initiative is the result of long negotiations inv...
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10 August 2010Running in the Corridors, a new educational fundraising resource from the World Land Trust (WLT) is now available FREE to schools aiming to raise £50 or more towards the purc...
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06 August 2010The second World Land Trust (WLT) workshop on "Carbon as a funding mechanism for conservation" was held in May in Kibale National Park, Uganda and was hosted by the Ugand...
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05 August 2010Above top: South American Coatis and Hummingbirds feeding in front of the Buenaventura Reserve webcam. Above: A preview of the new webchat WLT (World Land Trust) has expa...
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23 July 2010This year, the Punta Flecha Whaling Observatory, opened by World Land Trust (WLT) partner Fundación Patagonia Natural (FPN) in 1999, will be run in collaboration with staff from th...
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07 July 2010Two suitable reintroduction sites for the White-fronted Capuchin Monkey (Cebus albifrons aequatorialis) have been identified on the Buenaventura Reserve in southern Ecuador. Capuch...
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01 July 2010The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) held their Annual Conference and AGM in Belfast Zoological Gardens in June, where the theme was Partner...
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01 July 2010Gran Pantanal Paraguay, a new book on the Pantanal landscape, wildlife and people has been launched this month by World Land Trust (WLT) Project Partner Guyra Paraguay, in collabor...
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30 June 2010The 'Emeralds for Elephants' exhibition drew to an exciting close on 23rd June when the most valuable elephant in the London Elephant Parade was auctioned to raise funds fo...
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30 June 2010A Toco Toucan by Edward Lear - one of the lithographs on display at the exhibition.On 8th July, the antiquarian book shop Henry Sotheran’s on Sackville Street, Piccadilly, wi...
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29 June 2010In April, World Land Trust (WLT) Project Partner Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) convened a ground breaking meeting of conservation experts, forest authorities and conservation organ...
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23 June 2010In April World Land Trust (WLT) and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) created a new nature trail at Kites Hill Reserve, Gloucestershire to enable visitors to exp...
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21 June 2010Work of a rangerFor World Land Trust (WLT) and Ecuadorian partner Fundación EcoMinga, purchasing land is the main focus for protecting species and habitats. But simply acquiring th...
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25 May 2010The WLT exhibit in the process of being set up. See more images from the construction of the exhibit here Bill Oddie visiting the Atlantic Rainforest exhibit. See the design of...
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24 May 2010World Land Trust (WLT) CEO John Burton reports about the visit to the Atlantic Rainforest: “At the beginning of May, with funding from some of our corporate supporters, I was...
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24 May 2010Limited edition Friendship bracelets containing Swarovski pearls. Purchasing one of these bracelets will help raise funds for WLT's Indian Elephant Corridor Appeal......as will...
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21 May 2010One of the students after the bee attack.Massive swarms of Africanized honey bees Apis mellifera scutellata (commonly known as ‘killer bees’) attacked a team of 18 biol...
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19 May 2010Orange-breasted falconOrange-breasted Falcon Chicks sighted on the Narupa reserve, Ecuador © M Cooper A rare sighting of a Tamandua. This is the Southern species, which in thi...
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12 May 2010The Guapi Assu Reserve (REGUA) where the research is taking place.The research programme run by REGUA, World Land Trust’s project partners in Brazil, is continuing to compile...
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07 May 2010The Laguna Grande Reserve, Guatemala © Marco CerezaWest Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus), which can be seen at the Laguna Grande Reserve © Germanico BarriosWorld Land...
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29 April 2010Juan Manuel Carrion with the artwork he designed to promote the campaginThe “Parrots and Palms, Natural Heritage of Ecuador” campaign, raising awareness of the importan...
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28 April 2010Do you have images of Maned Wolves, Spectacled Bears or Giant Anteaters? The World Land Trust are currently producing a new educational fundraising resource called Running in the C...
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21 April 2010For the first time ever, a wild Orang-utan has been photographed crossing a bridge. The World Land Trust (WLT) recently received this exciting news from our project partners, Hutan...
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21 April 2010The first workshop as part of a knowledge exchange with African non governmental organisations (NGOs) was held in February in Akosombo, Ghana. Participants and trainers of the fir...
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20 April 2010Jocotoco ranger Cliserio Roa is photographed close to a Mountain Tapir on the Tapichalaca Reserve. Photo © Ramiro Mendoza April 27th is World Tapir Day and the World Land Tru...
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19 April 2010In celebration of World Land Trust's 21 Anniversary, we have partnered with BBC Worldwide (through BBC Wildlife Magazine) to hold a camera trap photo competition. A rare shot...
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19 April 2010Nest studies in collaboration with Natural History of Ecuador's mainland Avifauna project (NHEMA)Successful collaboration between World Land Trust partners Fundación Jocotoco (...
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16 April 2010An interview with our Atlantic Rainforest webcam creator As many of you will have noticed there has been an exciting addition to our webcams. The The Atlantic Rainforest webcam wa...
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15 April 2010Roberto Pedraza, from WLT's Mexican partners Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG), visited the UK in March as part of a programme supported by the World Land Trust. Roberto gave...
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15 April 2010Guyra Reta Reserve, owned by Guyra Paraguay and saving critically threatened Atlantic Rainforest in San Rafael, is one of the project areas supported by World Land Trust. It is als...
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12 April 2010The Atlantic Forest - a priority area for conservationOnce covering over an estimated 1 million km2, centuries of deforestation has seen the Atlantic Forest become the second most...
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07 April 2010In March this year, as part of the field work for her Graduate Diploma in Conservation Administration, Alison Lewis went to the rainforests of Paraguay to study the butterflies. D...
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