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World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity that protects some of the most biologically significant and threatened habitats on Earth. Working with a network of partner organisations around the world, WLT funds conservation actions that benefit wildlife and local communities while also combatting climate change. These include the creation of protected areas and the restoration of degraded habitats. Important to their mission is that WLT doesn’t own or manage any of the overseas land that is saved by their fundraising. Their local NGO partners instead protect the land in concert with communities, whose engagement and expertise are always sought in every project funded by WLT.
These projects involve the purchase and protection of ecologically important land facing threats such as deforestation, urbanisation, and agriculture, many of which provide some of the last remaining havens for countless rare and spectacular species. Preserving these strongholds for biodiversity, acre by acre, is the most impactful way to protect habitats and the life they support in perpetuity.
WLT’s partners are committed to placing local communities at the heart of conservation efforts – from education and employment opportunities and offering sustainable management plans for the surrounding areas, to consulting with local leaders on their ancestral knowledge of the land. This ensures that both the land and the people who inhabit it can thrive together for years to come.