Last month, three Guarani communities, the local Argentine government of Misiones, and the UK-based NGO World Land Trust forged an agreement to create a nature reserve connecting three protected areas in the fractured, and almost extinct, Atlantic Forest.
WLT in the News: Wildlife Conservation
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Indigenous group and NGO establish crucial corridor in vanishing Atlantic Forest
Mongabay.com
17 May, 2012
The world’s most toxic frog is meeting a poisonous fate
The Telegraph
12 May, 2012
What’s in a name? Quite a bit, it seems, when it comes to Phyllobates terribilis, possibly the world’s deadliest creature.
Endangered poison dart frog gets sanctuary in Colombia
USA Today
9 May, 2012
A 124-acre nature reserve in the South American nation of Colombia has been created to provide sanctuary to the endangered golden poison dart frog.
Protecting Killer Frogs From Killer Humans
The New York Times
9 May, 2012
Now, the Rana (Spanish for frog) Terribilis Amphibian Reserve has opened for business in Colombia, thanks to the good offices of several biodiversity organizations.
World's most toxic frog gets new reserve
Mongabay.com
5 March, 2012
“In a bid to save the species, the World Land Trust (WLT) and Colombian NGO ProAves have teamed up to establish a 50 hectare (124 acres) reserve in the Chocó rainforest.”
Protection for golden poison frog, the world's most poisonous vertebrate
WildlifeExtra.com
29 February, 2012
"The golden poison frog lives deep in the heart of the Colombian rainforest. This tiny creature is considered to be the most poisonous vertebrate on Earth."
Local charity that’s saving the world’s wild places
Eastern Daily Press
28 January, 2012
"The World Land Trust has been working to save biologically important and threatened habitats acre by acre since 1989."
Into the Wild: Please save this deadly frog
The Times
3 September, 2011
"ProAves is now in the process of identifying the right areas to create the first protected habitats for the golden poison frog. It is doing this with the support of the World Land Trust..."
Battle of the Chaco: Who will win the wilderness?
New Scientist
9 July, 2011
"In the Chaco in Paraguay, biodiversity rivals that of the neighbouring Amazon. So why is it being destroyed at an accelerating pace?"
Why my heart belongs to Zambia
The Times
11 June, 2011
"Simon Barnes fell in love with Zambia 20 years ago. He has returned again and again, not just to engage with the wildlife, but to fight for an Eden under threat."
Trunk Calling
EADT Suffolk magazine (pages 122-23)
1 May, 2011
"Adventures in India over 22 years have led Halesworth couple to explore the heart of the country. On their latest trip they met the people saving the Asian elephant."
Lily Cole: People and elephants can live in harmony
New Scientist
23 February, 2011
"A visit to India gave the model and actress striking evidence of how humans and elephants can live in peace with each other, with the right planning."
Wildlife corridors are the Asian elephant's last chance for survival
The Ecologist
22 June, 2010
"The Asian elephant is at an all time-low. I predict extinction if we do not do something to secure its shrinking habitat."
£568.48: the price on the head of an orang-utan
The Times
2 August, 2008
"An initiative to help to stop orang-utans being driven into extinction has put the price of saving the apes at £568.48 a head."
Inaccessible forest in the Chaco gets £10m protection
The Times
18 June, 2008
"The WLT intends to raise £10 million for a trust fund to pay for the long-term management of the area, including paying for wardens recruited from indigenous populations."
Saved: the wildest place on earth
The Times
18 June, 2008
"Remote and impenetrable, the Chaco forest in Paraguay has been saved with the help of a maverick conservationist from Suffolk."
Foreigners are willing to invest heavily in Paraguayan tourism
ABC Paraguay (in Spanish)
16 June, 2008
"...international tourism generates alot of money. Particularly in England, large numbers of people pay money to see landscapes in their natural state with no man-made changes..."
Broken rainforest crying to be healed
The Times
14 June, 2008
"This part has been bought up by Guyra Paraguay with the support of the World Land Trust in this country. There are holes at the edge of the forest and here, gloriously, the broken forest is being healed."
Symposium looks at growth of private protected areas
Channel 5 Belize
23 May, 2008
"This week approximately twenty-seven conservationists from around the world made their way to La Milpa Field Station in Orange Walk for a symposium on “Financial Sustainability of Private Protected Areas."
Guyra Paraguay opens biological station in Bahía Negra
Programa de las naciones Unidas para el Desarollo (in Spanish)
11 March, 2008
"World Land Trust is one of the donor organizations"
Buying land can save the world's wilderness areas
The Guardian
21 February, 2008
David Attenborough's response to the article The great green land grab:
"John Vidal's article makes some very pertinent observations about people and organisations that buy land for conservation, but let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Reverence in a green cathedral
The Times
6 October, 2007
"I paid a visit to the Reserva Ecológica di Guapi Assu, where purchases, aided by WLT, have already been made and stunning areas of forest have been made safe."
The deep Chaco
Última Hora (in Spanish)
15 September, 2007
"The aquisition of Campo Iris cost some $75,000 and the purchase was made possible through the support of the World Land Trust (WLT)."
Acres of Paraguayan wetland saved
BBC News
12 January, 2007
"A British charity has moved to save thousands of acres of environmentally important wetland in South America from destruction."
