Land purchase: News

John Burton, Chief Executive of World Land Trust (WLT), has expressed his thanks for the commitment of all the Trust's supporters during the past year. "As 2014 draws t...

Funds from World Land Trust (WLT) have saved an area of 41.17 acres (16.66 hectares) inside the Güisayote Biological Reserve of western Honduras. Güisayote is a partic...

World Land Trust (WLT) has released funds to extend Cerro Candelaria Reserve, an area of threatened habitat that shelters extraordinary biodiversity. Located in the eastern Ande...

Raising funds to acquire a significant piece of Yungas forest of northern Argentina is a priority for World Land Trust (WLT) now that an important property has come on the market....

World Land Trust (WLT) has funded the purchase of 123 acres (50 hectares) to extend the Río Zuñac Reserve in one of the most diverse and endangered cloud forests on E...

Thanks to World Land Trust (WLT) supporters another small but significant property has been purchased to extend Guapi Assu Reserve in the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Less than 7 per...

World Land Trust (WLT) has contributed to a land purchase that helps save an important fragment of highly threatened Chocó forest in northwestern Ecuador. WLT is one of a...

Another remnant of Colombia’s threatened Chocó Rainforest has now been saved thanks to joint funding from World Land Trust (WLT) and Rainforest Trust (RT). The hot...

One of the most remarkable tracts of cloud forest in Sierra Gorda has been saved thanks to funding from the Buy an Acre fund of World Land Trust (WLT). Buy an Acre » Th...

Cotton-top Tamarin Reserve in north west Colombia is protecting two of the world’s most endangered primates. The reserve is owned and managed by Colombian NGO Fundaci...

Funding to complete the purchase of Laguna Brava in western Guatemala is now guaranteed, thanks to World Land Trust (WLT) and a donation from Puro Coffee. The property...

The Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea) - one of the Americas’ fastest-declining migratory birds - now has more protected wintering habitat in Ecuador, thanks to a succ...

While fundraising continues for World Land Trust’s (WLT) current Borneo Rainforest Appeal, we can report that land purchased in 2009 with funds from WLT will be gazetted as p...

World Land Trust (WLT) has saved an important property that has long been a priority for purchase by Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG), WLT’s conservation partner in...

Puro Fairtrade Coffee, a long standing supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), has contributed funds to secure an area of cloud forest measuring 181 acres (73 hectares) inside the Vol...

Asociación Armonía, Bolivian conservation partner of World Land Trust (WLT), has purchased 14,827 acres (6,000 hectares) of Beni savanna and palm forest island habita...

The tropical dry forest reserve of La Ceiba in southern Ecuador has been extended by 133 acres (54 hectares), thanks to Buy an Acre funding from World Land Trust (WLT). Buy an A...

Guapi Assu Ecological Reserve (REGUA) has added another 62 acres (25 hectares) of Atlantic rainforest to its protected area, thanks to funding from World Land Trust (WLT). The n...

The purchase of a property of 390 acres (158 hectares) inside Ecuador’s Podocarpus National Park will provide a safe haven for the charismatic and endangered Mountain Ta...

World Land Trust (WLT) has helped safeguard more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of Colombia’s threatened Chocó Rainforest. Buy an Acre » In the past few...

Thanks to the generous support of a donor in Germany, World Land Trust (WLT) has helped fund the expansion of Fundación Jocotoco’s Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador by a...

Against a backdrop of escalating human-elephant conflict in Malaysian Borneo, World Land Trust’s Malaysian partner HUTAN is pressing on with plans to secure a vitally importa...

World Land Trust’s (WLT) Buy an Acre Appeal has provided funding to purchase land to extend the Cerro Prieto-Cerro la Luz reserve. The purchase comes not a moment too soon a...

World Land Trust’s conservation partner in Armenia has successfully agreed a lease of 2,718 acres (1,100 hectares) of land to extend the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge. The addi...

The strategic purchase of 54 acres (22 hectares) of land bordering the Matumbo Gap in Brazil will extend a crucial wildlife corridor in the Atlantic rainforest. World Land Trust (...

Following a site visit by journalists and World Land Trust’s Mary Tibbett to Borneo, the Trust is more determined than ever to conserve rainforest habitat for the Orang-utan...

Every acre counts: nearly 1,500 saved in one month in Mexico, Paraguay and Ecuador.. 564 acres of ancient forest habitat SAVED in Mexico In addition to the 878 acres (355 ha)...

Every acre counts: nearly 1,500 saved in one month in Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico.. 190 acres saved in Ecuador – adding conservation value to the Narupa Reserve Fundac...

Every acre counts: nearly 1,500 saved in one month in Paraguay, Ecuador and Mexico.. 677 acres of Atlantic Rainforest saved in Paraguay but threats continue San Rafael still...

World Land Trust (WLT) helps extend the Cerro Prieto-Cerro La Luz Reserve in Mexico to help protect more of this threatened ecosystem In May, WLT celebrated the creation of the 75...

World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates over 10 years of on-the-ground conservation by our partner organisation in Paraguay, saving one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet W...

World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates further success for a project that is protecting biodiversity, fighting against dangerous climate change and benefiting indigenous communities...

Critically Endangered and once thought to be extinct, Fuertes’s Parrot now has greater protection thanks to World Land Trust (WLT) and our partners’ collaborative succe...

Chessington World of Adventures creates a nature reserve in Ecuador the same size as their Resort by supporting World Land Trust (WLT) Last year, Chessington World of Adventures R...

World Land Trust (WLT) helps fund a new nature reserve to protect Mexico’s cloud forest, but new research is published showing the threat climate change poses to this fr...

World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates the protection of a wildlife corridor in Borneo with vital support from the Sabah state government Along the banks of the Kinabatangan River, i...

World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates the start of 2012 by helping create the first nature reserve to protect the Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis), considered the most poiso...

World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates funding the creation of more nature reserves last year than ever before, despite the financial crisis With economic difficulties set to continue...

Thanks to your support the World Land Trust (WLT) has successfully funded new land purchase in Malaysian Borneo, protecting this rainforest habitat forever This Christmas the Worl...

More threatened habitats and wildlife are protected as the World land Trust (WLT) helps increase the size of nature reserves across the world The restored wetlands at the no...

The World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates funding nature reserves in Colombia and Ecuador, helping our partner organisations to increase their protection of threatened habitats and...

In the fight against dangerous climate change the World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates land purchase in Paraguay, turning more threatened habitat into a wildlife reserve as part of ou...

Jaguars, Pumas and Margays find extra safety in the ancient foliage of Mexico’s forest as more threatened habitat is purchased through World Land Trust (WLT) fundingOne of th...

The World Land Trust (WLT) is funding the expansion of a new reserve in Mexico to provide a refuge for endangered species like the Jaguar and PumaEl Jagüeycito Reserve, the 308 acr...

 The World Land Trust (WLT) funds important land purchase to protect more of Ecuador’s threatened habitats and wildlife  The Buenaventura Reserve is just one of the...

World Land Trust’s (WLT) African partner Nature Kenya has completed the purchase of 51 acres of threatened grassland on the Kinangop Plateau, Kenya, with funds provided by WL...

WLT-US and their partners, the Peruvian Association for the Conservation of Nature (APECO), have formalised protection for 158,000 acres (63,900 ha) of Andean forest on the Amazoni...

Top: The Pangan Reserve, Colombia. Above: Blue Pangan Poison Arrow Frog. Photo: © ProAves Colombia More than 500 acres (200 hectares) of sub-tropical f...

A round-up of recent news from World Land Trust-US, U.S. partners of the World Land Trust. For the latest news about their conservation projects, or to subscribe to their eBulletin...

Top: Margarita Island; Middle: Yellow-shouldered Parrots; Above: Diploma students Fiona Duncan, Jo Keene and Pedro Mayorga-Jeffs, during their research expedition in Venezuela....