Land purchase: News
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News about land purchases in the World Land Trust (WLT) conservation project areas.
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18 December 2014John 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...
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17 December 2014Funds 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...
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16 December 2014World 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...
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16 December 2014Raising 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....
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25 November 2014World 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...
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30 October 2014Thanks 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...
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29 October 2014World 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...
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08 October 2014Another 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...
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24 September 2014One 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...
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29 August 2014Cotton-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...
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27 August 2014Funding 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...
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07 August 2014The Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea) - one of the Americas’ fastest-declining migratory birds - now has more protected wintering habitat in Ecuador, thanks to a succ...
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30 April 2014While 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...
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29 April 2014World 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...
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20 March 2014Puro 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...
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08 January 2014Asociación 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...
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15 November 2013The 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...
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30 October 2013Guapi 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...
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11 October 2013The 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...
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11 September 2013World 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...
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18 July 2013Thanks 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...
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22 February 2013Against 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...
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22 February 2013World 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...
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04 January 2013World 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...
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13 December 2012The 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 (...
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22 November 2012Following 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...
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22 October 2012Every 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)...
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22 October 2012Every 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...
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22 October 2012Every 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...
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12 September 2012World 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...
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10 September 2012World 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...
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16 August 2012World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates further success for a project that is protecting biodiversity, fighting against dangerous climate change and benefiting indigenous communities...
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06 July 2012Critically 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...
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05 July 2012Chessington 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...
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12 June 2012World 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...
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12 March 2012World 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...
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27 January 2012World 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...
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18 January 2012World 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...
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13 December 2011Thanks 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...
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27 September 2011More 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...
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27 September 2011The World Land Trust (WLT) celebrates funding nature reserves in Colombia and Ecuador, helping our partner organisations to increase their protection of threatened habitats and...
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08 July 2011In 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...
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13 April 2011Jaguars, 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...
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22 February 2011The 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...
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21 January 2011The 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...
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07 October 2010World 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...
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09 March 2010WLT-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...
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14 October 2009Top: The Pangan Reserve, Colombia. Above: Blue Pangan Poison Arrow Frog. Photo: © ProAves Colombia More than 500 acres (200 hectares) of sub-tropical f...
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01 September 2009A 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...
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28 August 2009Top: Margarita Island; Middle: Yellow-shouldered Parrots; Above: Diploma students Fiona Duncan, Jo Keene and Pedro Mayorga-Jeffs, during their research expedition in Venezuela....