World Land Trust in the News

A recent Glasgow University expeditions to Bolivia's Beni savannah have produced important survey data on the birds and mammals of the Barba Azul Nature Reserve. The research teams also captured fascinating camera-trap footage including a great sequence of a Giant Anteater enjoying a nocturnal wallow.

Read more on the Wildlife Extra website

The winner of last year's BBC Wildlife Camera-Trap Photo of the Year competition attracted not a little controversy. We heard rumours suggesting that the shot - of a leopard traversing a path in China's Shuishui River Reserve - was doctored. And it's not hard to see why. This is a spectacular image: judge Mark Carwardine's comments described "gorgeous light, setting and pose - this image has it all". That it was captured by a camera-trap seems, frankly, incredible.

Yet photos of this standard are now becoming the norm, and are increasingly crucial in conservation and ecology research. Whether you're a field researcher or a keen amateur, we want to see your best remote-camera images - and they could win you a £3,000 research grant or a Paramo jacket.

(BBC Wildlife introduces the Camera-Trap Photo of the Year Competition 2013)

It is clear that many of the organisations that pay the most would not normally be considered as charities by most members of the public – nor, indeed, by many working in the charity sector. How can the Royal Opera House and other theatres paying exorbitant fees to performers be considered the same as an animal rescue centre reliant on volunteers and donations?

(A letter from John A Burton, Chief Executive, World Land Trust, published in Third Sector magazine)

Vote, vote, vote for the palkachupa cotinga. How could you not? Your vote might be the one that tips the balance, that safeguards the future of something you have loved since you first became aware of it. Gather up your mouse and click, that cotingas might live.

(Simon Barnes's Wild Notebook features the Palkachupa Cotinga)

Many thanks to readers who responded to my piece about the Euro-leopard, better known as the Caucasian leopard, and sent generous donations to World land Trust to support the conservation project run there by an Armenian NGO called the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets. It's a project, incidentally, that operates from local goodwill, a few exceptional individuals and strong support from more developed nations.

(Simon Barnes, Into the wild, final item)

The World Land Trust (WLT) established in the United Kingdom is an international conservation charity that has made it its mission to give permanent protection to important wildlife habitat and does so by funding partner organisations around the world to create land reserves...

(Volume 66-3 of Malaysian Naturalist provides a comprehensive overview of the work and achievements of World Land Trust)

Ian Mills has photographed more than 80 different species of moth using a simple shuttered light box in his father's garden in Halesworth. An album of Ian's moth photographs is on display at World Land Trust (WLT) gallery in Halesworth...

World Land Trust is delighted to announce the opening today of a new exhibition at its gallery in Halesworth. Birds and Bees celebrates the turn of the seasons from winter to spring...

Sometimes it's easy to get people on your side in conservation. As I write, I am about to do a trip to Borneo with the World Land Trust, safeguarding and establishing rainforest corridors for orang-utans. You don't have to work too hard to convince people that saving orang-utans is a good idea.

(Simon Barnes prefaces an article about vultures with a reference to World Land Trust's work in Borneo)