Working with World Land Trust

The Calendar Company has now become a corporate sponsor of the World Land Trust, this means for every sheet of paper we use through our machine we make a donation of 0.25 pence to the World Land Trust charity.

Saving threatened habitats acre by acre

World Land Trust (WLT) was established in 1989 initially to save critically threatened habitat in Belize. Since then it has been instrumental in securing over 500,000 acres of wilderness habitats. WLT works through a network of overseas project partners who are all conservation NGOs themselves; these partners then own and manage the land for conservation. The lands purchased and protected are real acres in real places, and World Land Trust works to save a range of crucial habitats from tropical forest, to grasslands and wetlands, which are home to a wealth of endangered and endemic species. It is a registered charity: 1001291 and its patrons are Sir David Attenborough and David Gower.The Calendar Company’s donations are going into WLT’s Action Fund which means the support can be directed to any one of their most urgent projects.We have included a selection of images that have been provide by the World Land Trust which go further to explain the work that they do and how the donations help to complete this work.

Photo Andrew Smiley

Buenaventura is one of the reserve areas managed by WLT partner Fundacion Jocotoco in Ecuador. Jocotoco works to protect the habitat of globally threatened species of birds in the Andes of Ecuador, together with all associated biodiversity. They own eight reserves that protect a range of habitats for threatened species including ones discovered on the reserve as new to science, such as the Jocotoco Antpitta.

Photo: Kirsty Burgess

Aerial view showing deforestation of habitat in Borneo. The plantations of Oil Palm can be clearly seen on the far side of the river. WLT works in partnership with LEAP Spiral and HUTAN to try and secure remaining fragments of land for Orangutans and other wildlife but land is hugely expensive due to competition from Palm oil companies.

Photo: Jessica Stewart

WLT works in partnership with REGUA in Brazil to conserve the Atlantic Rainforest of the upper Guapi Assu river basin, near the city of Rio de Janeiro. Threatened habitat is being saved through purchasing privately owned pieces of land to extend the reserve, planting native tree species, and allowing the wildlife to return. (Currently this is where we carry out WLT’s Plant a Tree programme)

Helping to protect wildlife

By buying land the World Land Trust helps to keep many species of wildlife safe from loss of habitation. For more information please visit the World Land Trust’s Projects.