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Transport for London 'Go Green' for the World Land Trust
Workers in Transport for London offices in Richmond had a 'Green Day' in April. They paid 'fines' and collected a generous £200 for the World Land Trust. The event was so successful they plan to repeat it next year.
Their money was donated to the World Land Trust Action Fund, to support our most urgent projects
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Congratulations to author Chris Stringer who has recently won the 2008 Kistler Book Award for his 2006 book Homo britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain. The Walter P. Kistler Book Award recognises authors of science-based books that significantly increase the knowledge and understanding of the public regarding subjects that will shape the future of our species.
Dr Stringer is Britain's foremost expert on human origins and is a palaeontologist at London's Natural History Museum (where many WLT supporters work, or have worked). His book looks at the dramatic battle for survival ancient Britons had, hundreds of thousands of years ago, as climate change brought about huge changes in the environment. Dr Stringer has contributed to discoveries including the setting of the date for when humans first arrived in what is now Britain to at least 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. Britain has had some of the most extreme changes of environment, all affecting plants and animals in recent Earth history, and part of his work has been to look at how ancient people coped with climate change: something that is becoming more relevant day by day.
Dr Stringer has chosen donate the US$10,000 prize money to the World Land Trust for purchase and protection of tropical forests in Ecuador and it will be used to fund a portion of the Cerro Candelaria reserve in Cental Ecuador, working with Fundación Ecominga. Dr Stringer is also donating the Public Lending Rights in his books to the Trust's Green Ink project. We thank him for this generous commitment to helping the WLT save threatened forests and their biodiversity.
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Kelly Jacobs (left) and Miranda Stevenson accepting a cheque for the BIAZA Reserve from Terry Willers, Director of Shepreth Wildlife Park.BIAZA is the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and a group of its accredited members are raising funds over 3 years for the purchase of the BIAZA Reserve, in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil, working with REGUA. The land purchase will extend the reach of the reserve towards the Rio de Janeiro Primatology Centre and create a continuous belt of protected Atlantic rainforest. The target figure for the three-year period, which ends in December 2009, is £266,000 and WLT has recently received the amount raised during the first year (2007) of £50,000.
So far 22 zoos and private members have pledged support and fundraising has already topped £125,000. One participating zoo, Shepreth Wildlife Park has pledged £2,000 a year towards the project and WLT's Education, Training & Outreach Officer, Kelly Jacobs, recently visited them to accept their first year donation. She met with Terry Willers, Director of Shepreth, and was accompanied by Miranda Stevenson, the Director of BIAZA.
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Dower & Hall launched a new 'Fashion for Forests' Charm Bracelet in June 2008, to help raise funds for the World Land Trust.
The sterling silver bracelet , which sells for £250, includes charms of animals and plants found in WLT project areas and £50 will be donated for every bracelet sold.
For more information and to buy a bracelet, visit the Dower & Hall website. (Click on "Promotions & Offers" and then "View charm bracelet".)
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The Incredible Hulk returns to the cinema this week and to help film fans go green, The World Land Trust and Universal Pictures have developed an 'Incredible Hulk Carbon Calculator' where you can balance your carbon emissions and help save wildlife habitats in Paraguay - all without the need to rip off your shirt!
Read our press release about this promotion: "The Ultimate Green Machine!"
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The World Land Trust are pleased to welcome Tucan Travel as a new Carbon Balanced company. Tucan Travel, who will be offering clients the option to offset their carbon emissions with the Trust, issued the following press release about their new initiative:
Tucan Travel and World Land Trust Join Forces to Promote Carbon Offsetting
Worldwide adventure tour operator Tucan Travel has teamed up with international conservation charity World Land Trust to provide a carbon offsetting service to its clients.
Travellers can calculate the carbon emissions of their international flights and compensate for them by making a voluntary contribution direct to World Land Trust's Carbon Balanced programme. The scheme funds a range of projects which help to mitigate the environmental damage caused by carbon emissions. Projects include restoring degraded forests in tropical habitats, preventing deforestation and protecting biodiversity through local land purchases. World renowned environmentalist Sir David Attenborough is a patron of WLT, alongside David Gower, former captain of the England cricket team.
Tucan Travel researched the carbon offsetting industry carefully over several months to find the ideal carbon offsetting service, but the solution was obvious to Managing Director Matt Gannan as soon as he learned about World Land Trust.
"Tucan Travel has always been careful of the environment wherever we've operated tours, but now that we're a worldwide tour operator, we realise that we need to intensify our efforts. That's why we've rewritten our Responsible Travel policy to cover our worldwide operations, and enlisted the help of World Land Trust to promote carbon offsetting to our clients," Mr Gannan said.
He went on to explain: "There are now many businesses offering a variety of carbon offsetting services, but we support World Land Trust because it takes a very direct, active, scientifically sound and socially aware approach that is grounded in conservation and saving biodiversity. World Land Trust is passionately focussed on the environment, not the bottom line. We think their not-for-profit philosophy will also be attractive to our clients, who like us, find profit-driven carbon offsetting schemes a bit off-putting."
World Land Trust's CEO, John Burton, said that WLT was pleased to align with Tucan Travel. "We all recognise that international flights are a significant source of carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions, but sensitive tourism to threatened parts of the world raises both awareness of the importance and plight of these fragile habitats, as well as helping bring income to local communities. It is encouraging that Tucan Travel has taken this responsible and proactive approach, and has chosen to turn their admirable company ethic into direct action, and to extend this opportunity to its clients. World Land Trust welcomes this opportunity for positive action."
Tucan Travel clients may also choose to support World Land Trust by making an online donation of £50 (or their equivalent currency) that will enable the purchase and protection of one acre of tropical forest or other threatened habitat into perpetuity. That's about 1/3 of a football field, or 200 parked cars worth of rainforest which could support 150 trees and many endangered species.
Tucan Travel will not profit in any way from clients' carbon offsetting payments. Contributions will be made directly to World Land Trust and Tucan Travel will not receive any direct financial benefit or commission from this.
For further information, please contact:
Catrionna Grant - Communications Coordinator
Tucan Travel, London - Ph. 020 8896 6711- cat@tucantravel.com
For more information on Tucan Travel and its Responsible Travel policy, see www.tucantravel.com
For more information on World Land Trust and its Carbon Balanced programme, see www.carbonbalanced.org
To 'buy' an acre of rainforest visit: www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/donation.htm
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"Do You Want To Kiss It Better?" is a charity comics anthology, with the first issue (Green) raising money for the World Land Trust. A mixture of weird and wonderful stories, with inspiring artwork and a strong environmental message, The Green issue of Do You Want To Kiss It Better? is available to buy online at http://doyouwanttokissitbetter.110mb.com/ or Forbidden Planet. (From 8th May the issue can be found in the Forbidden Planet shops as well.) Or if you are in London, you can get your copy from Orbital Comics & Collectibles or Gosh Comics.
For more information, see the Do You Want To Kiss It Better? website or page on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/doyouwanttokissitbetter
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