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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At the World Land Trust, we have been looking at our doantion patterns and there seems to be a direct correlation between the weather and online donations. When the weather is nice and sunny, donations seem to drop, but when it is wet and windy, they go up. We wondered if any larger charities have noticed similar trends and, if so, are they statistically significant? If this proves the case, we will probably be organising rain dances in June.
John Burton, Chief executive, World Land Trust, Halesworth, Suffolk
Something of great international importance is going on in a modest but historic fifteenth century house in Bridge Street, Halesworth, for this is the headquarters of World Land Trust.
Sarah Class is a rising star, a young English singer and songwriter. She is also one of Britain’s most sought after film score composers with a strong association with wildlife and natural history. A Musical Safari with Sarah Class will be a mesmerising mix of personal experiences, film sequences and live performance."What wonderful music" Sir David Attenborough on hearing the soundtrack to Africa. Friday, 25 October 2013 - 3:30pm, The Cut, Halesworth.
Chris Packham - patron of World Land Trust (WLT), TV presenter, zoologist and conservationist – will lead a WLT debate about aspects of conservation that are often swept under the carpet as being too controversial to address. The event is supported by the Sibthorp Trust, which promotes the study and discussion of key environmental issues. October 14, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall, The Royal Society.
Tickets are now on sale for what promises to be a lively debate on many of the issues that are shied away from. “WLT is not a campaigning organisation but nor should we sweep major issues under the carpet,” explains John Burton, WLT Chief Executive. Monday 14th October 2013, 18:30 - 21:30, Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG.
... On August 7 morning, the trap cameras recorded footage of the body of the Caucasian leopard. After having examined the video, the experts of FPWC concluded that the leopard is limping caused maybe because it once was caught in a trap. This theory has later been confirmed by the senior scientific researcher of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the Russian Academy of Sciences, well-known scientist, PhD Victor Lukarevsky. In spite of the limping the animal – which is identified as male – seems to be in good shape, very strong and healthy.
On the edge of the great Pantanal wetlands in South America lies a sprawling and diverse nature reserve... What's more, more than 8,000 acres of it were funded by a legacy left to World Land Trust (WLT) by Suffolk businessman Sid Templer.
The article appeared in Remember a Charity: Your 16-page guide to charitable giving in the the UK and abroad, distributed with The Daily Telegraph
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Something of great international importance is going on in a modest but historic fifteenth century house in Bridge Street, Halesworth, for this is the headquarters of World Land Trust.
Founded in 1989, WLT was based on a simple (but at the time novel) idea that £25 would buy and protect an acre of rainforest. Since its pioneering campaign in Belize WLT has raised funds to save more than half a million acres of land in some 20 countries (real acres, in real countries), ensuring the survival of many threatened species including jaguar and Spectacled Bear, and many rare primates and birds.
Tropical forests play an essential role in life on Earth: they stabilise and purify water supplies, regulate weather systems and provide shelter for pollinating insects. And they help counteract global warming. Why is this such important work? Because we are at last coming to realise that everything in nature is interdependent-including humans. By preserving the natural environment, whether in our own back gardens or on the other side of the world, we are preserving ourselves.
WLT provides work in Halesworth for twenty-five people, a carbon-offsetting programme, and a wonderful gallery which puts on changing exhibitions of wildlife and landscape art that reflects the Trust's commitment to nature conservation and the preservation of rare and endangered species.
I looked up as the train stopped at a station and saw a tiger. Beside the tiger, the words The Times. And that was it, or all that I took in that brief glance. An enigmatic advertisement, one that appropriated to The Times the qualities of the tiger: bold, beautiful, known to all, but still not without mystery...
Well, if The Times is going to exploit the tiger then the tiger should exploit The Times, so here's the current state of play. There are probably fewer than 2,500 mature tigers left in the wild world: a decline of 50 per cent over the past three generations of tigers - that is to say, about 25 years.
Gift Guide: Each deckchair sold will enable the World Land Trust to purchase and protect hald an acre of threatened habitat forever. Available online.
Jeweller Dominic Jones has enlisted the help of friends Bonnie Wright, Phoebe Collings James and Clara Paget to model - as it were - the fruits of a collaboration between the World Land Trust and Winchester School of Art: their take on Southsea Deckchairs, inspired by the trust's international conservation work.
I was sitting in The Angel in Halesworth, Suffolk, with friends from the World Land Trust talking wildlife and conservation shop when a little sport drifted into the conversation. You know how it does. So I talked a bit about Andy Murray, and expressed my admiration for the way relentless work and first-class organisation by many people — especially Murray — brought him those three significant victories inside a year.
Leopards are elusive animals at the best of times but in the vicinity of the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR) it has been eight years since one had been seen. If it hadn't been for traces of hair and a scat found in the CWR and proven to belong to a Caucasian Leopard, we might still be wondering if they really did exist.
For the seaside, rooftop or garden, the deckchair is a summer staple – although not always a stylish one. So this limited-edition charitable collaboration from an unlikely trio – international conservation charity World Land Trust, the University of Southampton’s Winchester School of Art and Southsea Deckchairs – is a welcome arrival on the scene.
A BB grant of £1,000 has been awarded to the World Land Trust for use in Armenia. It will be passed to the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) in the Khosrov IBA Buffer Zone Reserve. This Important Bird Area has no fewer than 21 species of breeding raptors, including Lammergeier Gypaetus barbatus, Eurasian Black Aegypius monachus and Egyptian Vultures Neophron percnopterus, Short-toed Circaetus gallicus and Lesser Spotted Eagles Aquila pomarina.
Wild Notebook: If the Euro-leopard is to survive, we must keep open the corridors that connect leopard to leopard.
A leopard has been spotted — please share my delight in the double-meaning — running wild in Europe. Its image has been caught by a camera trap lurking in the darkness, a black and white picture, black and charcoal grey, really, but unmistakably a leopard. Or more precisely, unmistakably a leopard’s tail.
Paul Murphy's comment (25 June, page 15) perpetuates the myth that there is a legal category for interns, and also wrongly assumes some sort of consistency in the sector's treatment of them.
World Land Trust has produced a collection of deckchairs with Southampton University and Southsea Deckchairs (£150 each). Each sale enables the charity to protect half an acre of threatened habitat.
Faithful readers of this column will remember the recent tale of the rainforest research station that was torched and destroyed by people who oppose the work of the conservation organisation Guyra Paraguay. Many generous people responded to the piece with donations to the organisation. Rainforest matters to us all. And so, for that matter, does courage.
A group of cyclists have completed an energy-sapping challenge. The 12 fundraisers saddled up for a 60-mile bike ride beginning and ending in Halesworth to raise money for conservation chrity World Land Trust, which is based in the town.
