A year of tree planting in Armenia
In this feature, we’d like to share a month-by-month account of the work of our conservation partner Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) in 2025.
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A Moth by Any Other Name
Tegostoma burtoni, a new moth species belonging to the Crambidae family, has just been described and named in honour of WLT founder John Burton. Identified in 2022, it was studied rigorously from its physical characteristics down to its DNA and found to be an as-yet unknown to science species. This...
Nature Knows No Borders: CMS COP14’s plan for migratory species
Migratory species include some of the most iconic animals on the planet. From elephants roaming savannas, to ocean-crossing orcas, to birds that flock in their thousands, changing hemispheres with the seasons. Down to the smallest insects and pollinators, and even some plants, these travellers...
Armenia’s Plant a Tree project seen from the sky
Spectacular drone footage from our partner Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) shows us the planting of 700,000 trees across the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge in Armenia’s mountain steppe is well underway. Since the beginning of our Plant a Tree programme, WLT...
Barnes’s Bestiary: Mouflon
This is the latest entry of the Barnes’s Bestiary series, written by journalist, author, World Land Trust (WLT) ambassador and member of the WLT council Simon Barnes. See here to read all of Simon’s other entries so far. How many domestic sheep are there in the world? The answer is 1.266 billion...
Barnes’s Bestiary: Lammergeier
This is the latest entry of the Barnes’s Bestiary series, written by journalist, author, World Land Trust (WLT) ambassador and member of the WLT council Simon Barnes. See here to read all of Simon’s other entries so far. The dramatic places of the world tend to have beasts to match: lammergeiers...
Double sighting of Caucasian Leopard in Armenia gives hope for Endangered subspecies’ survival
A new Caucasian Leopard has been identified for the first time in camera trap footage from Armenia’s Caucasus Wildlife Refuge (CWR). The latest arrival becomes just the fifth individual leopard to be recorded here since 2013, when our in-country partner, the Foundation for the Preservation of...
