Timeline - World Land Trust

1989: World Land Trust Founded as the World Wide Land Conservation Trust

1989: First project Programme for Belize launched by Lee and Gerald Durrell, with support from Sir David Attenborough and David Bellamy

1992: David Bellamy and Mark Carwardine become Trustees of WLT

1994: Second project Rainforest Action Costa Rica launched by Bill Oddie

1994: Philippine Reef and Rainforest Project launched by David Bellamy

1995: World Land Trust moves to its offices in Halesworth, Suffolk

1997: The Trust's name is officially changed from the World Wide Land Conservation Trust to World Land Trust

1997: David Gower becomes World Land Trust’s first Patron

David Gower

2000: 10th Anniversary Project is launched to protect the disappearing Patagonia Coastal Steppe

2000: Kites Hill: the Trust’s first UK reserve, is donated to WLT as a ‘Living Legacy’

2002: Carbon Balanced: World Land Trust’s emissions offsetting programme is launched

2003: Having supported the Trust since it was launched, Sir David Attenborough becomes a Patron of WLT

2008: WLT helps create Barba Azul Nature Reserve in Bolivia to protect Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaws

2012: After six years of hard work, a ground-breaking Multicultural Agreement is established to designate 9,301 acres (3,764 hectares) of Atlantic Forest in Argentina as Traditional Indigenous Lands

2013: Chris Packham announced as a Patron of WLT

Chris Packham

2014: £1 million raised to create the Keruak Corridor in Malaysian Borneo for Bornean Orang-utans

2015: Big Cat Appeal raises £500,000 to protect big cat habitat in Argentina and Brazil

2016: £500,000 raised to create the Forests in the Sky corridor in Ecuador

2016: Steve Backshall becomes a Patron of World Land Trust, having completed a 125-mile kayak to raise funds for a WLT project in Colombia in 2015

2016: Olympic Forest Reserve created in Brazil

2017: Mudahalli Elephant Corridor appeal reaches £750,000 target