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News and fundraising initiatives from corporate and individual supporters helping the World Land Trust protect wildlife habitats, as well as fundraising ideas for supporters wanting to do more. (See all our present and past corporate supporters.)

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Thursday, 28 May 2009:

WLT Supporters among UK's 60 Best Green Companies 

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Nikwax, both Corporate Supporters of the World Land Trust, have been listed in the Times Online '60 Best Green Companies' league table, at number 24 and 54 respectively.

Companies are selected based on a detailed, verified assessment of their environmental performance and a survey where the organisation's staff get a chance to say what they think about their employer?s environmental standards and performance.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers, the list states:
"The company has set up a scheme with the World Land Trust, where for every ton of CO2 emissions its staff save by using teleconferencing, PwC makes a donation sufficient to protect one acre of rainforest in Ecuador."
Read about PwC in the list of 60 Best Greeen Companies

Nikwax is the only outdoor company to appear in this year's list. Their commitment to WLT is also mentioned in the list:
"Each year [Nikwax] pairs off its current carbon footprint with that of the year a decade before, and offsets the total emissions for both, adding a matching donation to conserve rainforest through the World Land Trust."
Read about Nikwax in the list of 60 Best Greeen Companies

See the full list of companies here

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Monday, 6 April 2009:

This spring, to support conservation, Just Walk! 

Just Walk: sponsored UK charity walk

On Saturday 9th May 2009 hundreds of walkers, raising funds for an incredible range of charities will be lacing up their boots and striding out over the South Downs. Four WLT supporters took part last year, and really enjoyed themselves, raising a final total of nearly £4000 between them. They had a fantastic time and so can you: Just sign up at www.just-walk.co.uk and let us know that you'll be taking part and we'll email you a copy of our fundraising pack.

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Thursday, 19 February 2009:

Recycle your Empty Printer Cartridges and support conservation 

We now have a new cartridge recycling scheme that benefits the World Land Trust (WLT), thanks to corporate supporters Ian Smiths Office Products. By donating your empty Inkjet and Toner cartridges through Ian Smiths, you can help support the work of the WLT.

For more information and contact details, see Recycle your Empty Printer Cartridges and Help Save Rainforest

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Tuesday, 17 February 2009:

Green Pledge from CSG helps World Land Trust save tropical forests 

World Land Trust (WLT) corporate supporters, Cleansing Service Group (CSG) has made a green pledge to help preserve threatened tropical forests.

CSG is one of the UK's largest privately owned waste management groups and its customers include energy giant EDF Energy.

CSG has chosen to stand firm on environmental policies during the recession and by pledging regular donations to the WLT the company is making an invaluable contribution to the Trust's work, by helping WLT plan for the future. The Trust's CEO, John Burton said: "We believe it's important to work with companies to improve their environmental accountability, and CSG's contribution is another example of how the business world is taking threats to the planet very seriously. We are extremely grateful to them for their support which demonstrates real commitment to the environment."

CSG managing director Paul Quigley said: "Sustainable waste management has become a key factor in environmental protection and we accept we have a responsibility for protecting the natural environment as a priority. Transporting waste by road is inevitably a major part of our work. Linking with the World Land Trust in this way not only helps mitigate unavoidable carbon emissions created by our contract with EDF Energy but helps save some of the world's most critical habitats and their endangered species, too."

Read the press release in full on the CSG website

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Wednesday, 11 February 2009:

World Land Trust partners with IUCN Netherlands 

Willem Ferwerda (Director, IUCN NL, left) and John Burton (CEO, WLT) sign the Memorandum of Understanding between IUCN NL and WLT.

Some of the projects and organisations supported by the World Land Trust (WLT) over the past five years have also received funding independently from IUCN Netherlands Small Grants for the Purchase of Nature programme (SPN). This has led to increased communication between the two organisations, which in turn has resulted in more effective application of funds, strengthened recipient organisations, and an emerging series of special project opportunities. The protection of endangered habitat in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Borneo is most recent WLT project to benefit from such support.

The demonstrated success of the cooperative efforts between IUCN NL and WLT has established a solid foundation for a more extended working partnership. Recognising the value of this, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the two organisations at a meeting held at the IUCN NL offices in Amsterdam in November last year, thus creating a formal working partnership.

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Tuesday, 10 February 2009:

Film-maker & World Land Trust supporter to organise India tour 

Would you like to see some of the areas where the World Land Trust and its partners are working? Then join this tour, led by long-term WLT supporter, Dan Freeman. Photos: © Aditya Singh

In the Footsteps of Jim Corbett

This proposed tour (led by wildlife film-producer Dan Freeman who has made his own film on man-eating tigers) will follow 'In the Footsteps of Jim Corbett', taking in three of his hunts, his home towns of Khaladungi and Nainital and Corbett National Park - where two of his hunts took place - during a two-week journey that will bring alive the place and the memory of one of the world's most courageous and sympathetic people.

Jim Corbett was a pioneering conservationist in India. He loved people and tigers and he understood, better than anyone, why tigers became man-eaters and the misery they caused to village life in the foothills of the Himalayas one hundred years ago. He wrote the most incredible accounts of how he saved people from tigers, of how he tracked these formidable big cats in their own territories and finally killed them. He found that they were always suffering from injury or old age, no longer able to hunt their more normal forest prey and turning to cattle and people instead. In his books - the most famous of which is The Man-eaters of Kumaon, Jim Corbett described vividly and dramatically, but unsensationally, the unfolding stories of his hunts. Much of what he described then remains today.

If you would like to know more about this tour, please refer to the Discovery Initiatives website, following the country (India) or animal (tiger) link. Rupert Cue, the company's Country Director for India, will be pleased to send you a detailed itinerary.

Learn more about WLT's elephant corridor project in India »

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Friday, 6 February 2009:

Help conservation when you complete your tax return 

Most people hate completing their tax return, but to cheer you up we'd like to remind you that you can help support the World Land Trust at the same time. When you complete the UK Self Assessment tax return you can nominate a charity to receive all or part of any repayment due. Just enter the WLT's code which is GAD74DG and Inland Revenue will do the rest. Simple! The donation will be paid direct to WLT's bank account and we will acknowledge and confirm donation amount. If you have any queries, please contact the Trust.

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Monday, 2 February 2009:

Awards for WLT Corporate Supporters 

Environmentalist of the year highly commended: Chris Jenkin, Managing Director of Enterprise Plants (Photo © Archant London)


Environmental Business of the year Winner: Chest of Drawers (Photo © Archant London)

Environmental champions from across London and the South East attended the inaugural Archant London Environmental Awards on Friday 10th November. The ceremony, held at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel London, saw schools, colleges, businesses and individuals recognised for contributions of all shapes and sizes to environmental awareness and protection projects. Awards attracted hundreds of entries ranging from environmental household of the year, to companies of 200+ employees. The 10 categories included: Environmentalist of the Year, Most Environmental Household and Environmental Business of the Year. The style of entering was also in keeping with the environmentally friendly campaign and entrants were encouraged to enter online via the website www.London24.com

The World Land Trust (WLT) is delighted that two of its corporate supporters received awards on the evening: The Environmentalist Business of the Year winner was Chest of Drawers, a company which has carbon balanced through WLT since April 2007, and Chris Jenkin, Managing Director of WLT's longest serving corporate Sponsor, Enterprise Plants, received the Environmentalist of the Year Highly Commended. Congratulations to both.

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