World Land Trust

World Land Trust is an international conservation charity which protects the world's most biologically important and threatened habitats, acre by acre. Since its foundation in 1989, World Land Trust has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves and give permanent protection to habitats and wildlife. World Land Trust and its project partners have been instrumental in the purchase and protection of over 500,000 acres of tropical forest and other ecologically important habitats. Such a feat is achieved through a diverse range of conservation programmes addressing key threats to biodiversity.

World Land Trust is an international conservation charity which protects the world's most biologically important and threatened habitats, acre by acre. Since its foundation in 1989, World Land trust has funded partner organisations around the world to create reserves, and give permanent protection to habitats and wildlife. World Land Trust and its projects partners have been instrumental in the purchase and protection of over 500,000 acres of tropical forest and other ecologically important habitats. Such a feat is achieved through a diverse range of conservation programmes addressing key threats to biodiversity.

World Land Trust is heavily involved in tree planting and assisted regeneration of vulnerable forests, reducing and offsetting carbon emissions created by deforestation, and actively managing acquired land. The trust works in 28 countries, spanning five out of seven continents on earth. Their work is mainly focused in regions where there is high biodiversity, like the tropics. World Land Trust recognise the importance of capacity building and engaging local communities to take action for wildlife and wild spaces. Keepers of the Wild is a collaborative effort between the World Land Trust and partner NGOs to emply local people to act as guardians of the reserves. Patrolling for illegal activity, monitoring and conducting field research, and working with local communities to raise awareness of the importance of living sustainably are just a few elements of the ranger's work. Their presence is also hughely important for natural disaster response and prevention, including wildfires. 

Blackpool Zoo is a founding contributor to World Land Trust's 1651-acre BIAZA reserve sector at REGUA, Brazil. this area remains under protection through WLT's Brazilian partner, REGUA, and forms part of the wider reserve, where the total area protected currently stands at 12,000 ha. This area stands as prime Atlantic Forest habitat for species like the Southern woolly spider monkey (Brachyteles arachnoides) and lowland tapir into the reserve began in 2017, with successful breeding already confirmed through camera trap monitoring and tracking individuals.

We have also helped to fund the protection of a strategically and ecologically important 4,416-hectare wildlife corridor name El Pantanoso, in Argentina. This corridor is essential to maintain the habitat connectivity of heavily threatened species like jaguar and andean condor whilst remaining inaccessible to hunters, loggers and oil prospectors seeking to exploit the rainforest. Engaging local people through research and biodiversity studies has helped to identify more than 120 species of trees, 140 species of butterflies, 350 species of birds, and 120 species of mammals so far.