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Conservation team from Bulgaria to visit UK wildlife charity
World Land Trust to exhibit Wildlife Art
Saving the Indian elephant
Conservation team from Bulgaria to visit UK wildlife charity
Press Release dated: Thursday, October 30, 2003
This weekend a delegation of eight senior conservationists and managers from the National Trust EcoFund of Bulgaria will be arriving in the UK. With the change from communism, the management of parks and reserves is being transformed, and the delegation has been funded by USAID to find out more about how UK non-government organisations operate in this field. The World Land Trust is hosting the delegation, and their tour is being facilitated by Iain Orr, who recently retired as Head of Biodiversity in the UK's Foreign Office.
The World Land Trust was started in 1989 to raise funds for conserving land in Belize. It has gone on to help set up similar operations in several other countries, as well as advise on land conservation issues. Its operations currently include Ecuador, Belize and India.
The Bulgarian delegation will visit RSPB and National Trust reserves, as well as visiting the HQs of the organisations. They will also be meeting other organisations based in and around London and East Anglia.
For further information on the World land Trust visit the WLT website or contact John A Burton on (+44) (0)1986 874422.
For more information, contact: John Burton
CEO
World Land Trust
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Web site: http://www.worldlandtrust.org
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World Land Trust to exhibit Wildlife Art
Press Release dated: Friday, October 17, 2003
The World Land Trust is a UK based conservation charity that works to preserve the world's biologically important and threatened lands. The WLT has helped purchase and protect nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife-rich habitats, in Belize, Costa Rica, the Philippines, South America and the UK.
On Monday 3rd November the World Land Trust will be opening its doors to the public to exhibit an array of wildlife art. The exhibition, held as part of the Halesworth Arts Festival, will include a range of works by renowned artists such as Bruce Pearson, Maurice Wilson, Greg Poole and Andrew Haslen. Visitors will have the opportunity to buy originals and prints and there will also be a competition with great prizes, including a large print by Bruce Pearson.
The exhibition will include information about the artists, providing a great opportunity to find out more about wildlife art. There will also be information about the World Land Trust, and the projects we run to save rainforests and other endangered habitats worldwide.
Christmas cards will be on sale and there will be a competition with great prizes, including a large print of Bowhead whales by Bruce Pearson.
For more information about the exhibition, including opening times, contact the World Land Trust on the number below, or visit www.worldlandtrust.org/news/exhibition.htm
For general information about the Trust and how you can help us protect endangered wildlife, visit our website.
For more information, contact: Emma Page
Projects Development Assistant
World Land Trust
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Web site: http://www.worldlandtrust.org
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Saving the Indian elephant
Press Release dated: Friday, October 03, 2003
The World Land Trust (WLT) formally launched its new campaign to raise funds for elephant corridors in N E India, at a reception held in the Mall Gallery on the 30th September. The Reception was multi-faceted - not only launching the Elephant Corridor Project, but also bringing together Green Ink Supporters (writers and artists who donate Public Lending Rights to the WLT), as well as showing a video of one of the world's rarest birds, and displaying an exhibition of original Christmas card designs used by the WLT.
The Mall gallery is currently showing the annual exhibition of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA), and Bruce Pearson, the President of the SWLA invited the World Land Trust to put on a display relating to the Trust's use of art and design. Part of the display relates to the results of a Christmas card design competition organised in conjunction with BBC Wildlife Magazine and the winners can be viewed on the World Land Trust's web site - as well as at the Mall Gallery.
Dr Gerard Bertrand, Honorary Chairman of the World Land Trust announced the new project in Megalaya, N E India, which will create corridors between national parks and forest reserves, so that the populations of endangered Indian Elephants can move between them. These corridors will also provide habitat for many other endangered species. The initial target of the project is to raise £25,000, which will not only protect the corridor lands, but also help develop sustainable livelihoods for the villagers. Dr Bertrand, who is a US citizen, was in the UK to attend the RSPB's Annual General Meeting at the weekend, when he will receive the Society's Medal for his tireless work for bird conservation, world-wide. Other guests present at the Mall Gallery included David Gower, who is a Patron of the World Land Trust and David Shepherd, a tireless campaigner for elephants.
The guests were also able to view some video footage taken in Ecuador, which showed the first video ever taken of the Jocotoco Ant-pitta, one of the World's rarest birds. It was filmed by WLT Trustee, Dr Nigel Simpson, on land adjacent to the Christopher Parsons Rainforest - the Trusts latest reserve, launched by Sir David Attenborough in July.
Donations to help conserve the elephant corridor can be made on line at the WLT's website: www.worldlandtrust.org, and donors will receive a certificate, as well as newsletters and an information leaflet about the corridor project.
For more information, contact: John Burton
CEO
World Land Trust
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Web site: http://www.worldlandtrust.org
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