World Land Trust (WLT) and its network of partners carries out innovative conservation work that is regularly featured in local and national media. This page displays a selection of news articles featuring WLT, ranging from our work to conserve threatened habitats and species to our high profile events.
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"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."
…“I showed her an education pack called Running in the Corridors, which had been sent to me by the World Land Trust and which contains a CD (which Lyddie loved exploring), competition, game and poster.”
"Of the suitors nerving themselves for a Valentine's proposal tomorrow, many will have a diamond ring ready. But this year, an increasing number are expected to choose emeralds… But behind the boom is the game-changing business model of Gemfields, the British-based mining company."
"Last year I was in Zambia with the World Land Trust. We visited a partner-donor organisation, the emerald-mining company Gemfields. One reason for the trip was to see how green, ho ho, their operation was, and it stood up to our scrutiny very well."
"Margarita Mbywangy's tribe was nearly wiped out when the modern world came calling. Now she has come to Europe to talk about their stolen land and struggle for survival."
"..around five hectares of rainforest in Guapi Assu will be officially be named 'Seo Tai-ji Forest' on March 21 after the Korean singer of the same name."
"An exciting new art gallery in Halesworth is aiming to put the Suffolk town on the map and help save important wildlife habitats at the same time."
"The World Land Trust has been working to save biologically important and threatened habitats acre by acre since 1989."
"Sportswear brand Freya Active has launched a range of swimwear made from Sensitive® Life Soft - a material which contributes to rainforest conservation."
"To save many of these areas from development that would destroy the natural ecosystem and wipe out many species of animals and plants, he called on businesses to help buy the land."
"Examples that the industry can raise funds for social and environmental causes exist. Recent ‘Emeralds for Elephants’ auctions organized by Gemfields and the World Land Trust raised £80,000 and $150,000 for elephant conservation projects in Asia."
"A major problem facing the WLT is that worldwide land prices are escalating at an alarming rate. Just a few years ago the trust could fund the purchase of threatened tropical forest in Brazil for just £50 an acre. Today such land costs around £400 an acre."
"The charity, whose aim is to protect some of the world's most precious habitats, is throwing down the gauntlet to each and everyone one of us, during The Big Give Christmas challenge."
A UK company is promoting conservation through the World Land Trust's (WLT) Buy an Acre project. Somerset-based Growth Technology, supplier of specialist plant nutrition and orchid products, became a WLT partner earlier this year and has set up a foundation to protect land.
"Fashion and conservation untie on the fundraising project Emeralds for Elephants India 2011, working together for environmental and social change."
"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..."
"For villagers and their families it is a tragedy, but for tiger conservationists a sudden rise in the number of attacks offers welcome, if gruesome, evidence the predator is staging a comeback."
"In the Chaco in Paraguay, biodiversity rivals that of the neighbouring Amazon. So why is it being destroyed at an accelerating pace?"
"As the Natural History Museum's expedition is abandoned, the area is being converted to ranchland faster than ever."
"The World Land Trust, a conservation charity, teamed up with Liberty of London and Winchester School of Art to raise funds for five land protection projects."
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