Team Aqua: Sailing for Conservation

The professional sailing team, Team Aqua, who compete internationally at a top level, have committed to doing their bit to promote ecological sustainability by hoisting World Land Trust sails throughout their 2008 campaign.

The aim is to promote WLT's conservation projects in destinations across the world as the team continues to strive and succeed in high profile competitions and the initiative was spearheaded by the owner of Team Aqua, Chris Bake, who has been personally supporting the World Land Trust (WLT) for several years.

The WLT sails were displayed for the first time on 28th June 2008 in Cowes, Isle of Wight, at one of the largest and most famous Yachting races: the Round the Island Race. At this event many people were intrigued by the fact that an Extreme 40 Catamaran was displaying the logo of a nature conservation charity on its sails, rather than a commercial sponsor, and we hope that seeing the WLT logo will encourage people to find out more about the Trust and its work.

Carbon Balanced

In addition to helping raise awareness of the WLT's important conservation work, Team Aqua have also ensured their sailing campaign for 2008 is Carbon Balanced through the WLT. Their boat is fuelled by solely the power of the wind and sea, but there are still areas of their campaign that have impacts on the environment, such as the crew’s travel to and from the races and running the trusty motor boat that follows the boat during the races.

Team Aqua worked with WLT to offset all their associated carbon emissions and are therefore entitled to carry the Carbon Balanced logo alongside that of the WLT. We hope that Team Aqua's initiative will inspire other sailing teams to follow their lead.

Visit WLT's Carbon Balanced website to find out more.

About the World Land Trust

The World Land Trust is an international conservation charity working to preserve the world's most biologically important and threatened lands. Funds are urgently needed for conservation projects in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, India, Malaysia, Paraguay and the Philippines.

Learn more about the Trust's current priority projects and make a donation to support the Trust's urgent work.