Madagascar is an ancient island that has been removed from the rest of the world for millions of years. This extended period of isolation has made it one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, home to endemic wildlife that exists only on the island. In partnership with Missouri Botanical Garden’s...
Our latest appeal, Madagascar: A Forest for the Future, will support the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Madagascar Programme (MBG-Madagascar) to secure a key hotspot for threatened plants and irreplaceable floral diversity not found anywhere else in the world. Madagascar is home to an estimated 14,000...
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...
The most recent report from our partner Fundación Patagonia Natural (FPN) confirmed that Estancia la Esperanza – a 17,013-acre (6,884 ha) reserve on Argentina’s Atlantic coast – is providing habitat for four adult Pumas and their cubs. In this article, Axel Kuchaska, FPN’s Keeper of the Wild, and...
According to the IUCN, India is home to more than half of the estimated 50,000 Asian Elephants left in the wild worldwide. The country may be the species’ main stronghold, but when you share your habitat with some 1.3 billion people, finding the appropriate room to roam is always a challenge. Our...
When our ‘Saving Borneo’s Orangutan Corridors’ appeal soared past its £150,000 fundraising target in under two weeks, we knew there was a chance to save even more land than the strategic 10 acres already secured. Our new £300,000 target will allow our partner HUTAN to purchase and protect yet more...
Buy an Acre supporters have this year a chance to help safeguard land in one of the most threatened forest regions in the world, in the process extending a lifeline to the Americas' largest primate. Donations to our flagship programme will support a plan by our partner Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu...
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...
Research undertaken in the montane cloud forests of western Ecuador has revealed a previously unknown genus of medium-sized rats known as Pattonimus. Scientists have described two new species, naming one after World Land Trust (WLT) partner Fundación EcoMinga. It’s not every day that a new mammal...
Mindo Glass Frog (Nymphargas balionotus), seen just twice in the wild since it was first described in 1975, has become the highlight of a new scientific paper identifying the Rio Manduriacu Reserve as a key breeding site for the species. Rio Manduriacu Reserve, in the Pacific Western Andes, is...
A Thaos Swallowtail butterfly, also known as the King Swallowtail, photographed at REGUA, Brazil. Image credit: Chris Knowles. “Flowers that fly and all but sing” - Robert Frost, 1923 Butterflies have been used in art for centuries, right back to Egyptian frescoes more than 3,500 years ago, and...
By Lee Dingain – UK representative for REGUA. After nearly 20 years conserving the Atlantic Forest at the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve (REGUA) in south-east Brazil, much of the biodiversity that calls this forest their home is steadily recovering. One of the most charismatic animals benefiting from...
