Urgent Projects

World Land Trust supports a range of urgent conservation projects that need immediate funding. These include long running programmes such as Buy an Acre and Plant a Tree, as well as special appeals that respond to emerging threats to habitats and wildlife. The page also highlights vital projects that are currently without a dedicated funding, giving supporters the chance to make a direct and timely impact where it is needed most.

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Albertine Rift – Trees For Global Benefits

Carbon Balanced Reforestation

Live project

The Albertine Rift is an area of exceptional endemism, and contains many species threatened with global extinction, particularly within the mountain forest habitats. Within the project area, the native forests that make up the wider Bugoma-Budongo corridor are home to a staggering 52% of Africa’s bird species, 19% of its amphibians, 14% of its reptiles, and 14% of its plants.

NYAMUKINO RESERVE

Land purchase Reforestation

Live project

World Land Trust’s (WLT’s) Buy an Acre project is supporting the protection of the Albertine Rift by enabling Environmental Defenders to expand their existing 210-hectare (519-acre) Nyamukino Reserve through the purchase of an additional 838 hectares (2,070 acres).