World Land Trust in the News

The World Land Trust (WLT) and its network of partners carries out innovative conservation work that is regularly featured in the news. This page displays just a small selection of news articles featuring the WLT, ranging from our work to conserve threatened habitats and species to our high profile events.

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Bill Oddie: Why I was chucked out of HSBC headquarters over Bankwatch film

The Independent
14 May, 2013

For most of my life I have been a birdwatcher and a writer and performer of generally fairly frivolous shows. Two areas I have never been comfortable with – politics and finances. It is not that I am perversely not interested, it is that I don’t understand the language. However, one of the perks or pains of being a "public figure" - or even a "celeb" - is that I am often asked my opinion...

(WLT Council Member Bill Oddie ponders "the minefield of dilemmas involved in 'exploiting' a country's natural resources" following a visit to Sabah in Borneo, arranged by World Land Trust)

Camera traps show wealth of wildlife in Bolivia's threatened Beni savannah

Wildlife Extra
10 May, 2013

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

Buying land to return it to nature

Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal
29 April, 2013

Given the relentless pace at which wildlife habitat is being devoured by the march of development, some government agencies, non-governmental organizations and individuals have been trying to push back—by buying land and letting nature reclaim it.

A recent exercise involved the purchase of 26 acres along the Thirunelli-Kudrakote wildlife corridor in the Wayanad district of Kerala that comes under the watch of the non-profit Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). In the past few months, camera traps have recorded three tigers crossing the corridor.

The land was purchased by WTI with the help of the World Land Trust (WTL), IUCN-Netherlands and the Elephant Family to restore the degraded habitat and protect wildlife along the stretch.

(The article discusses both the challenge of buying land in India with land costs surging, and also the struggle to strike the right balance between conservation and economic growth)

Caught unawares

BBC Wildlife Magazine
9 April, 2013

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)

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Halesworth Community News
1 April, 2013

Our staff and overseas partner organisations are continually working to purchase and protect land that faces imminent threat across the world, and in four countries we can still purchase vital land for £100 an acre...

Time to distinguish between charities and not-for-profits

Third Sector
26 March, 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)

Cameras capture tigers trekking through wildlife corridor

Yahoo! News
24 March, 2013

A camera trap has captured photos of two healthy tigers using a protected corridor in the Kerala province of southwest India this year, evidence that the pathway could help populations of the endangered animals...

Vote for the palkachupa cotinga. Vote for the world

The Times
23 March, 2013

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)

World Land Trust tries to save rare cotinga

BirdwatchNews
16 March, 2013

Palkachupa Cotinga was thought to have died out, but its rediscovery in 2000 has galvanised conservation efforts to save the species in Bolivia... World Land Trust is calling on supporters to vote for Palkachupa Cotinga. There is just a two-week window for voting, which started on Thursday 14 March 2013 and ends at noon on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Simon Barnes: Into the wild

The Times
16 March, 2013

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)

Battle to save the Euro-leopard

The Times
2 March, 2013

The great problem with European life is that there are not nearly enough cats. I don’t mean pussy-cats: I mean the big fierce ones that can kill you. Life is a great deal richer for the presence of enormous menacing felids. They add a touch of Tabasco to a morning stroll...

(Simon Barnes features the Caucasian Leopard in The Times)

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Malaysian Naturalist
1 March, 2013

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)

A true gem

Financial Times: How to spend it
1 March, 2013

They say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Not this one’s, though – I’ve always had a penchant for emeralds... The 2010 Emeralds for Elephants campaign was a pop-up collection of pieces intended to raise awareness of the plight of the Asian elephant and to bring attention to the World Land Trust’s Indian Elephant Corridors Appeal.

Birds, Bees and Moths

Halesworth Community News
1 March, 2013

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...

Jede Stimme zählt!

Alpin, Das Berg Magazin
1 March, 2013

Ein Heim für Anden-Vögel: Im Nordwesten Boliviens liegt das 53 Hektar große Palkachupa Cotinga Nature Reserve. Die Savanne des Cerrados besteht bis zu 30 Prozent aus Wald mit vielen endemischen Pflanzen- und über 300 Vogelarten...

Birds and bees on show

Beccles & Bungay Journal
22 February, 2013

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...

Endangered Caucasian leopard confirmed in Armenia

Wildlife Extra
22 February, 2013

Leopards clinging on in the Caucasus, February 2013.

The efforts of conservation workers to preserve habitat for the endangered Caucasian Leopard in Armenia have been boosted by confirmation of the leopard's presence in a protected area...

Simon Barnes on vultures

RSPB Birds Magazine
1 February, 2013

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)

Life of an Intern with WLT

Halesworth Community News
1 February, 2013

Being in the busy office I get to be involved in a whole range of 'interesting' activities from researching and writing pieces on key animal species for the website, to helping collate information and updates on the projects for inclusion in the annual reviews for the trustees. The expertise of the WLT staff alone means I find observing and taking notes in meetings a valuable experience, and this is also supplemented by a steady stream of visitors to the office from a diverse range of organisations and backgrounds...

(Ruth Stanton-Saringer describes the range of tasks she undertakes as a World Land Trust intern)

Pygmy elephant deaths: a set back for conservation efforts

BBC World News
30 January, 2013

Mary Tibbett World Land Trust's Conservation Programmes Officer for Africa & Asia regions was interviewed by BBC World News to discuss the saddening death of 10 Pygmy Elephants in Borneo.

The World Land Trust and its partners in Borneo were saddened to learn from Malaysian wildlife officials about the death of ten Endangered Bornean Pygmy Elephants that had been found dead in a forest reserve in Sabah, NE Borneo. Initial investigations have concluded that the most likely cause of death was poisoning although it is still unclear whether or not the elephants were killed intentionally.

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