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Thursday, 31 July 2008:

New projects page about Borneo (Malaysia) 

The WLT website has now been updated with a page about our new project area in Malaysian Borneo. See http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/malaysia.htm

Labels: Malaysia

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Friday, 18 July 2008:

New project partners in Brazil 

Local Brazilian conservation organisation, Fundação O Boticário, have recently partnered with the World Land Trust, and we are discussing with them a new initiative to protect and restore Araucaria Moist Forests within the Atlantic Forest in the southern Brazilian states of Santa Catarina and Parana. This initiative in based on the principle that whilst the conifer Araucaria angustifolia itself may not be endangered the forest type it dominates has been greatly reduced and highly fragmented, and is threatened at an ecosystem level. Securing land will protect forest fragments that are risk from logging and clearance for agriculture.

Labels: Brazil

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Thursday, 17 July 2008:

Threatened White-breasted Parakeet gets helping hand at Tapichalaca (Ecuador) 

The White-breasted Parakeet (Pyrrhura albipectus)

Also known as the White-necked Parakeet, this species is only known to occur in three areas in south-east (Amazonia) Ecuador, of which Podocarpus National Park is one of its last strongholds. Fundación Jocotoco's Tapichalaca Reserve, which abuts Podocarpus, has a small population, in recently acquired low altitude land, and since the species' total population is estimated to be only a few thousand individuals, FJ has just started a project in an effort to boost numbers on the reserve.

As a follow-up to the successful nest-box project for the El-Oro Parakeet on the Buenaventura Reserve, nest boxes are to be installed at Tapichalaca for the White-breasted Parakeet. The design of these boxes has been greatly assisted by cooperation with Pro Aves Colombia, and the Loro Parque Foundation of Spain is generously funding the work.

Two years there were reports of a small flock being recorded just across the border in Peru, but was apparently unfortunately collected in the name of science. The collecting of species already declared globally threatened is something we do not condone since accurate identification, and recording, can now be carried out using latest photographic technology.

Learn more about the Tropical Forest Project in Ecuador, through which the World Land Trust supports Fundación Jocotoco's reserves

Labels: Ecuador

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008:

New projects in Malaysian Borneo and Bolivia 

Orang-utan habitat in Borneo and Blue-Throated Macaw habitat in Bolivia to be protected

Two new conservation projects were announced by the World Land Trust in the latest eBulletin:

• Orang-utan habitat protection in Borneo
  This project will protect a priority location for the Bornean Orang-utan in east Malaysia by creating corridors between existing wildlife sanctuaries.
• Grassland protection in Bolivia
  This project aims to create the first protected area for the endemic Blue-Throated Macaw, which has a total population of only 300 individuals remaining.

More information on these exiting new projects will be available soon.

Labels: Bolivia, Malaysia

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New land purchases in Brazil (Matumbo Gap) and Ecuador (Cerro Candelaria) 

In the recent eBulletin, two new land purchases were announced: A further 4 properties in the 'Matumbo Gap' have been purchased by REGUA, WLT's partners in Brazil. In Ecuador, Fundación Ecominga has secured a further 400 hectares of land, which means that the river that passes through the Cerro Candelaria Reserve will now be protected on both banks.

Labels: Brazil, Ecuador

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