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November 2009 - World Land Trust creates Pond on its UK Reserve in Gloucestershire in a bid to help address the 'extinction crisis' facing frogs, toads, newts, snakes and lizards across the UKWorld Land Trust, whose patron is Sir David Attenborough, is best known for raising funds to save tropical forests and their threatened species but it does have one reserve in the UK. The Kites Hill Reserve,

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August 2009 -- Lockhard Conservation Toys have created a loveable, ethical and educational range called Rainforest Friends. The super cuddly large toy collection is designed to raise awareness and funds for the plight of our much loved yet critically endangered species that live in the worlds most threatened habitats.Every Rainforest Friend sold benefits the World Land Trust whose patron is Sir

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July 2009 - The World Land Trust, which was one of the first UK charities to develop a carbon sequestration programme, has been recognised for the user friendly and informative carbon offsetting scheme website that has earned the prestigious five star rating from consumer watch dog magazine, Which?.According to the governments ActOnCO2 website, a typical household in the UK produces approximately

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June 2009 - Blakea attenboroughii is now the official scientific name of a spectacular new species of tree found only in Ecuador. This beautiful tree, with magnificent bright blue flowers, has now been formally described and published in the Proceedings of the Californian Academy of Science, and named in honour of the great natural historian and World Land Trust patron, Sir David Attenborough.In

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On the 30th April 2009 at 6pm, the World Land Trust and Linnean Society of London will host the widely anticipated 'Great Ape Debate'. The tickets sold out immediately but the debate will also be streamed live onto the WLT and Linnean Society of London websites allowing a huge public audience for what is expected to be a lively and informative debate.It is well known that Orangutan numbers have

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March 2009 - Coutts London Jewellery Week this June will launch an exciting collaboration between ten of London's most innovative and directional young jewellery designers who are uniting to form the aptly named, 'Rising Gems'. And this innovative collaboration will be raising funds to save some of the 'Gems of the Rainforest' through World Land Trust.Recognising the need to highlight and

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March 2009 - On the 19th March, antiquarian book shop Sotheran's will unveil over forty John Gould hummingbird prints on sale to raise funds for UK conservation charity the World Land Trust.The great Victorian ornithologist and artist, John Gould was renowned for his invaluable contributions to Charles Darwin's work and his love of the hummingbirds which led him to produce one of the most

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November 2008 - According to Third Sector (17 September), the main news source for Charities, a third of all charities have been forced to make staff redundant due to the slowing economy. However UK conservation charity the World Land Trust is clearly bucking the trend. Figures released by the Trust this week show a rise in donations of 26% for the year 2008. Determined to see a silver lining to

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July 2008 - The World Land Trust (WLT) and LEAP Conservancy (an NGO based in Borneo) are combining forces in an urgent bid to save critically endangered Orang-utans in Borneo. The Orang-utan is one of the most threatened animals in the world, and it is endangered mainly because its habitat is being destroyed catastrophically with the ever-increasing global demand for palm oil. WLT is a UK charity

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The Environment Minister of Paraguay, Arq. Carlos A. Lopez Dose, has announced a dramatically innovative initiative to form a shared-management partnership with British conservation charity the World Land Trust. This remarkable management handover will protect 2,500,000 acres of endangered forests mostly in the northern Chaco of Paraguay and is testament to the World Land Trust's ability to

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This week sees the long awaited return of The Incredible Hulk, looking bigger and better than ever before! The Hulk, played by Edward Norton, is sure to have cinema goers glued to the screen but Universal Pictures and the World Land Trust hope the Hulk's greenness will impact fans in more ways than one! The World Land Trust and Universal Pictures have specifically developed an 'Incredible Hulk

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Dower & Hall are proud to launch the new, 'Fashion for Forests' Charm Bracelet, to help raise crucial funds for the World Land Trust. The WLT is an International conservation charity, working from the UK, which is having huge success in halting the destruction of some of the most critically endangered habitat around the globe. One of their patrons is no other than Sir David Attenborough. World

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India is home to 60% of the remaining Asian elephant populations, making their survival in India critical to the survival of the whole species. It is for this very reason that the World Land Trust is partnering the Wildlife Trust of India, who have identified vital corridors as a fast-action bid to protect the Elephants that are left.The WLT and WTI are now working hard to safe-guard traditional

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The World Land Trust, which was one of the first UK charities to develop a carbon sequestration programme, is strongly critical of the government's recently announced kite mark for carbon offset projects. Although the WLT would welcome a system which defines a code of best practise and helps the public identify credible offsetting organisations, they feel DEFRA has made a grave mistake refusing

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On the 17th January the World Land Trust and their Patron, Sir David Attenborough, will launch Webcam in the Forest at the Linnaean Society of London, as part of its ongoing programme of showing to the world at large, conservation in action. This new initiative by the World Land Trust involves installing live streaming web cams in the middle of the Ecuador rainforest within one of their

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Father Christmas should be a shining example to us all this year. Whilst he is dashing around on his low-carbon sleigh pulled by eight eco-friendly reindeer, we are melting the ice caps around his Arctic home and upsetting the local polar bears and snowy owls with our excessive carbon emissions! So to show Santa a little appreciation the World Land Trust has created a range of gift acres for an

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Increasing amounts of biofuels (substitutes for petrol or diesel made from crops such as sugar cane, beet, maize, wheat, oilseed rape and oil palm) are being produced to reduce the carbon dioxide impact of transport. But the World Land Trust argues this requires vast areas of land and is not the best way of using land to mitigate climate change. The WLT would like us all to consider the knock on

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On 31st August The Forum in Norwich will be visited by a large blue mouse who will be handing out literature on behalf of East Anglian charity, World Land Trust (WLT). The Mouse is on tour around England, raising awareness for local charities and everyclick.com. and WLT will have a stand in the foyer.The World Land Trust has been raising funds through everyclick.com since November 2005, and so

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The BBC is transmitting a Saving Planet Earth Season later this month, and as part of the season, a new charity , the BBC Wildlife Fund is being launched. And the WLT's John Burton has been appointed as one of the Board of Trustees who will manage the fund.The season of films will be introduced by Sir david Attenborough and Alan Titchmarsh. Each of the films in the season will feature celebs

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The Annual Conference and AGM of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the launchpad for a ground breaking partnership that will save some of the most endangered rainforest in the World. The Conference is being held from 17-20 May in Oulton Broad, and is attended by representatives of all the leading zoos and aquaria. Already 18 members have pledged between them over

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For the past 18 years World Land Trust has been 'marketing' acres of rainforest (and other threatened habitats) at £25 an acre. These are real acres in real places, which are purchased and protected in perpetuity on your behalf by our overseas project partners. Rest assured, these are not just 'sponsored' acres which beg the question: Where? How? How long? These are real reserves which can be

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The World Land Trust wants to make Earth Day, 20th March 2007, the day the UK makes a real difference to the planet. Although we are one of the smallest countries in the world it is still possible for us to save an amazing One Million acres of rainforest, and other threatened habitats, in just one day. All you have to do is text WLT DONATE to 87050. Let's inspire the world and make the UK world

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On Earth Day this year (March 20th) no doubt there will be considerable focus on climate change, and its effects on the environment. But are we all missing the point? According to John Burton, of the World Land Trust, politicians and environmentalists alike are not confronting the real reasons for climate change. According to John Burton "While the use of fossil fuels and the release of CO2 is

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Why buy Mum a bunch of pesticide ridden flowers that have most likely been flown in from Israel, Columbia or Kenya and incurred vast carbon emissions when you can show her just how much she means to you with a whole acre of Rain Forest that will last a lifetime and more.The World Land Trust work tirelessly to protect and manage natural ecosystems of the world; purchasing endangered land and

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The allegations that carbon offsets harm the environment, heard yesterday by the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, and made by organisations including FERN (Forests and the European Resource Network) and the environmental think tank, Corner House, are ill thought out and jeopardise years of work to protect against the loss of critically endangered habitat and the effects of climate

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