News about Colombia
Conservation projects news from the World Land Trust. These posts relate to WLT projects in Colombia.
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10 May 2013In April, World Land Trust’s (WLT) conservation partner in Colombia, Fundación ProAves won an award for its Programme for the Conservation of Neotropical Migrator...
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26 April 2013To mark Save The Frogs Day on 27 April 2013 we highlight World Land Trust’s favourite frogs. Without wishing to leapfrog other types of frog, there are a few species of fr...
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09 April 2013Alonso Quevedo has succeeded Lina Daza as Chief Executive of ProAves, WLT’s conservation partner in Colombia. Formerly Director of Conservation at ProAves, Alonso is renow...
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22 March 2013Negotiations to purchase land to extend Las Tangaras reserve in Colombia are nearing completion thanks to support from World Land Trust (WLT). Funds to extend the reserve have been...
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06 July 2012Critically Endangered and once thought to be extinct, Fuertes’s Parrot now has greater protection thanks to World Land Trust (WLT) and our partners’ collaborative succe...
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29 February 2012Once thought to be extinct, the rare Fuertes’s Parrot now urgently needs your vote. Help create a nature reserve to protect this spectacular bird before gold mining destroys...
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28 February 2012Celebrate the success of amphibian conservation across the world on Leap Day, February 29, and raise awareness about the challenges these species still face World Land Trust (WL...
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20 February 2012Deep in the heart of the Colombian rainforests lives the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates Terribilis) – one of the most awe-inspiring species known to mankind and considered t...
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27 January 2012World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates the start of 2012 by helping create the first nature reserve to protect the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis), considered the most poiso...
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18 January 2012World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates funding the creation of more nature reserves last year than ever before, despite the financial crisis With economic difficulties set to continue...
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08 December 2011Generous donations to rangers help protect the forest home of the Two-toed sloth and a multitude of other threatened species Tree dwelling sloths in the rainforests of Central and...
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10 November 2011Site visit to our partner organisation in Colombia gives insight into their extensive work needed to protect the country from surging development Recently, Ruth Canning from the W...
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27 September 2011The World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates funding nature reserves in Colombia and Ecuador, helping our partner organisations to increase their protection of threatened habitats and...
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02 June 2011Thought to be extinct, this rare rodent hit the headlines when after 113 years it was rediscovered in a wildlife reserve established by ProAves, a World Land Trust partner organisa...
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31 January 2011Discover the World Land Trust’s 2011 Buy an Acre projects and help protect vital wildlife habitats forever. New Buy an Acre projects will be funding land purchases in Colombi...
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14 October 2009Top:The Pangan Reserve, Colombia. Above: Blue Pangan Poison Arrow Frog. Photo: © ProAves ColombiaOver 500 acres (200 hectares) of sub-tropical forest in the Chocó rainforests...
