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REAL ACRES SAVEDPROJECTS IN 20 COUNTRIES

OVERALL INCOME£3,336,000

OLYMPIC FOREST APPEAL EXCEEDS TARGET

11,125 TREESPLANTED

£455,000 RAISED INBIG MATCH FORNIGHT

54,821

After being a supporter for many years,wildlife television presenter Steve Backshallbecame a WLT Patron in 2016.

Dear WLT Friends and supporters,

2016 was a memorable year. I watchedHelen win the Olympics (bawled my eyesout), got married (ditto)… and World LandTrust (WLT) gave me the great honour ofmaking me a Patron! Helen alsospearheaded the REGUA Olympic Forestcampaign, which was a triumphant success,purchasing a substantial chunk of AtlanticForest, as a long-term legacy for the RioOlympics.

Altogether, WLT managed to save anincredible 54,821 acres (22,185 hectares) ofthreatened habitat in 10 countries all overthe world, which are protected by WLT’slocal partner organisations. Amazing!

The reason I am proud to support WLT isa simple one. They are offering clear,pragmatic and tangible solutions to theproblems of deforestation. In theamorphous, cluttered and challenged worldof conservation, simple messages and clearresults are vital. It is essential that peoplesee their efforts and their money making adifference, protecting environments in ameaningful way.

Our Saving Kinabatangan appeal thisyear has shown us how positively peoplecan respond to such a call to arms. Inspiredby providing a home for Orang-utans andPygmy Elephants, hundreds of youngpeople donated their pocket money, ranbake sales and car washes, kayaked forhours… admittedly inside their local Scouthut! My sincere thanks go out to everyoneinvolved.

For me one of the great dangers themodern conservation movement faces isapathy. The vast issues of climate changeand overpopulation may seem too big, toointimidating for us to handle, so there is atendency to do nothing at all. But givepeople the tools to actually make adifference, and they will surprise you. Thereare actually an awful lot of really goodpeople out there, altruistic, caring,thoughtful - and once empowered with thepotential to do something real -unstoppable.

I look forward to seeing what this armyof supporters can achieve in 2017 andbeyond, and am very proud to be a part of that story.

My warmest regards and thanks,

Introductionfrom WLTFounder CEO,John Burton

2016 was an eventful year, both for WorldLand Trust (WLT) and myself. For much ofthe year I struggled with side effects ofchemotherapy following a cancer scare, butWLT’s very strong team were able tonurture the growth of the Trust throughout.

I had previously announced my intentionto stand down as CEO and the search for anew CEO began in the beginning of 2016.However, a few months after beingappointed, the new CEO subsequentlydecided to return to her previous job and Iwas asked by the Trustees to fill the void ona temporary basis while plans are put inplace to recruit a new CEO.

The highlight of 2016, for me, was theSymposium held for all the members of theWLT Alliance (page 11).

One particular activity which I thinkhighlights the importance and significanceof the Alliance is that the WLT partnerorganisations are now visiting each other’sreserves, organising staff exchanges, andgenerally learning from each other. For me,this is almost as important as the facts andfigures of how much land the WLT hassaved over the years, as it indicates trulysustainable futures for our partners and theamazing reserves our supporters havehelped them create.

2016 at a glance...

A message fromWLT’s newlyappointed Patron,Steve Backshall


The Elephant Corridor Appeal got offto a fantastic start with Big MatchFortnight. Thanks to the generosity ofWLT supporters, £455,000 was raised inthe first two weeks of October.The appeal was raising funds for theurgent extension of a wildlife corridor inSouthern India. The Mudahalli corridor isthe only piece of land which IndianElephants can use to pass between theEastern and Western Ghats mountainranges. However, the corridor was almosttoo narrow to function and the passingelephants were causing trouble for thelocal community as they travelled throughand ransacked neighbouring crops.

The funds from the appeal are being

used by WLT partner Wildlife Trust ofIndia (WTI) to widen the corridor andprovide alternative land for subsistencefarmers which does not come into conflictwith elephants. Once secured, thiscorridor will also provide safe passage forother migrating mammals such as thosepictured right.

The appeal inspired a number of WLT’screative supporters, including filmmakersJonny Lu and Jeremy Valender, whoproduced a beautiful short film abouthuman-elephant conflict in India and theimportance of corridors. The film wasshown for the first time during Big MatchFortnight; WTI Executive Director VivekMenon and WLT Patron David Gowerspoke at the premiere screening in DunhillLondon’s Bourdon House.

The appeal was also supported by arange of exclusive shirts designed byrenowned street artist Mau Mau,produced by WLT corporate supporterThe Hemp Trading Company. One ofthese shirts was signed by WLT PatronSteve Backshall and became part of WLT’sChristmas Auction for Elephants, whichfeatured several pieces of elephantartwork, including a photographic printby WLT Patron Chris Packham.

Securing safe passage for Indian Elephants

As Team GB was busy training forthe Rio Olympics, WLT launched the

Olympic Forest Appeal topurchase and protect 296acres (120 hectares)

of threatenedAtlantic Forest nearthe city of Rio deJaneiro.

Even in themidst of trainingfor her secondgold medal,Olympic

Champion rower

Helen Glover became an ambassador forthe appeal, drawing in support from herfans and followers on social media. WithHelen’s support, the appeal exceeded thetarget and raised £46,904, so thepurchased land has become the wildlegacy for Rio 2016: the Olympic ForestReserve.“It’s so exciting to think that while

I’m counting down the days, we willalso be getting closer to the goal ofprotecting Brazil’s forest. TheOlympic Forest Reserve will be afantastic legacy for the 2016Olympics.” Helen Glover, July 2016

A still from ‘Elephant Corridors’, a short film produced by Jonny Luand Jeremy Valender

Creating a wild legacy for Rio 2016

The Atlantic Forest is home to anumber of charismatic mammalspecies, including the Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth

Cover Image

Asiatic Wild Dog (Dhole), IndianLeopard and Bengal Tiger areother mammal species whichbenefit from the ElephantCorridors in India


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Endangered parakeets in Ecuador,Spectacled Bears and Mountain Tapirs inPeru, Blue-throated Macaws in Boliviaand Caucasian Leopards in Armenia… theAction Fund was able to support theconservation of a wide range of speciesand habitats in 2016, thanks tofundraisers and WLT Friends.A major achievement after two years of hardwork by WLT’s partner Naturaleza y CulturaPeru was announced when 66,954 acres(27,095 hectares) of Montane Forest and

Páramo habitat, named Chicuate-Chinguelas, was recognised by the Ministryof Environment as a private conservationarea (Area de Conservación Privada or ACP).

Charlotte Beckham, ConservationProgrammes Manager at WLT, says“Compiling the information needed for theACP application and supporting villages todevelop more sustainable initiatives is alengthy but collaborative process, requiringconsensus amongst remote communitiesand an agreed conservation plan to ensurefuture protection.”

This process was supported by the ActionFund, and now Chicuate-Chinguelas will beprotected legally in perpetuity by the localcommunity of Segunda y Cajas.

The Action Fund also part-funded thepurchase and protection of a 233 acre(94 hectare) extension to the BuenaventuraReserve in Ecuador, with partners AmericanBird Conservancy and Fundación Jocotoco.

The Action Fund also supported anextension of 578 acres (234 hectares) tothe Caucasus Wildlife Refuge in Armenia(combined land purchase and lease), areforestation project in Barba Azul NatureReserve, Bolivia, and an emergency grant in

response to inflation in Argentina to supportmanagement of the Patagonian CoastalSteppe Project.

The difference made by WLT FriendsUrgent conservation projects supported byWLT Friends and the Action Fund

171 bird species were recorded inBuenaventura Reserve (Ecuador)during Fundación Jocotoco’s 2016BirdBlitz, including Violet-tailedSylphWLT Conservation Programmes

Manager Charlotte Beckham on asite visit to the Chicuate-Chinguelasproject in Peru

A commitment to conservationSir David Attenborough, WLT PatronWLT’s approach to conservation is whatworks. What you need, if you are going tosave the wildlife of the world, is land.Land not just for the magnificent animalsthat we recognise and care about but forthose species we cannot even see: thehordes of insects, the colonies ofmicroorganisms, the hidden seed storesin the soil and the species we have notyet discovered.

Looking at some of the achievementsin 2016, thanks are due to WLTsupporters for every donation making allof this possible. Now, more than600,000 acres have been purchased and

are being protected by WLT’s localpartners.

However, land protection does notend at purchase, and neither does WLT’ssupport for its partners. The Action Fundenables WLT to respond quickly in theface of environmental emergencies suchas natural disasters, and also allows us totake action when other urgent landprotection opportunities occur. Much ofthis support is made possible by theFriends of WLT, who commit to amonthly donation to go to importantconservation projects brought to theWLT team by their international partners.

So if you do care about the naturalworld and want to help, I would like tosuggest that there is no better way ofdoing so than supporting the WorldLand Trust.

Photo credits: Cover image (Shutterstock); Page 2: JohnBurton (David Bebber), Steve Backshall (SB); Page 3:Elephants (David Bebber), Dhole (Neil McIntosh), Leopardand Tiger (Srikaanth Sekar), Young elephant (Jonny Lu &Jeremy Valender), Banner (REGUA), Helen Glover (HG);: Banner (Andrew Smiley), Charlotte Beckham (CB),Sylph (Francisco Sornoza), David Attenborough (David

Bebber); Page 5: Berjaya (Hutan), Orang-utan (NickGarbutt), Manuk and wolf (FPWC), Tamandua (FundaciónPro-Bosque); Page 6: Hurricane damage (Programme forBelize); Banner and iguana (Roberto Pedraza Ruiz),Rainbow Boa (Jaime Culebras/TropicalHerping.com), Frog(Alejandro Arteaga/TropicalHerping.com); Page 7:Suzanne (Tran Đang Hieu), expedition photos (Suzanne

Stas), The Body Shop and Birdfair images (WLT); Page 8:Emerald (Dan Bradbury/WLT); Page 9: Tree Frog (LucasBustamante/TropicalHerping.com); Page 10: Margay(Francesco Rocca); Page 11: Mark Carwardine andsymposium (WLT); Page 12: Spectacled bears (PatriciaArellano), fundraiser photos belong to captionedindividuals


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Once a reserve has been created, rangersin the field provide the most obvious formof protection for habitat and biodiversity.In 2016, WLT supported the salaries of 33rangers in 14 countries through Keepers ofthe Wild, continuing the protection ofreserves managed by WLT partners.

One of the roles of the rangers is tomonitor wildlife, which provides importantfeedback on the condition of the reservesand species populations. Berjaya Elahan isa ranger who was part of a wildlife surveyteam in the Lower Kinabatangan WildlifeSanctuary in Malaysian Borneo.

Berjaya told WLT “The most commonwildlife survey methods we use are reccewalks, ground transects, humane gridtraps, river monitoring (for primates andbirds), and night surveys (for nocturnalanimals). We also use camera traps torecord the presence of particularly shy andrare species.”

Camera traps are fundamental forrangers to monitor wildlife. Many species,particularly in areas where wildlifepersecution is high, are very rarely seen byhumans, and hidden trail cameras are oneof the only ways to record them.

In Armenia, the rangers of the CaucasusWildlife Refuge (CWR) rely on camera trapsto monitor their populations of carnivoressuch as the Grey Wolf, Brown Bear andCaucasian Leopard. However, they are alsoskilled in tracking, which provides insightsinto the mammals’ behaviour.

Gor Hovhannisyan, one of the CWRrangers, said “The tracks of the BrownBears can often be seen with the first snow,and this helps us track their paths so wecan identify the location of their den,where they hibernate during cold winters.”

Rangers are also sometimes involved inrescue and rehabilitation projects. In June,rangers working in the Cerro BlancoProtected Forest of Ecuador released aNorthern Tamandua rescued from the pettrade.

The Keepers of the Wild have a range ofresponsibilities to ensure the safety of thewildlife within reserves managed by WLT’spartners, and as they are hired locally theyalso have an important role to play asconservation ambassadors in localcommunities.

Berjaya taking a photograph of a small frog as partof the wildlife survey in the Lower Kinabtangan

Wildlife Sanctuary. This area is known worldwide for itsexceptional biodiversity, including charismatic species such

as the pictured Bornean Orang-utan, Pygmy Elephant and Proboscis Monkey.WLT raised £1 million for the purchase of the Keruak Corridor in this regionin 2013-14, which is now under the protection of rangers like Berjaya

Keepers of the WildThe rangers ensuring WLT-fundedreserves have long-term protection

The rangers in the Caucasus Wildlife Refuge of Armenia protect wildpopulations of wolves, bears and even leopards. They monitor the wildlifeusing camera traps, tracking and occasional sightings

A Northern Tamandua was released by Fundación Pro-Bosque rangers intothe Cerro Blanco Protected Forest of Ecuador after being rescued by theEnvironmental Police from the pet trade



Saving real acres in real placesLand saved in 2016: 54,821 acres (22,185 hectares)under the protection of WLT’s local partners

Thanks to donations from individual and corporate supporters, WLT is able tocontinue wildlife conservation through land purchase and protection. In 2016, wewere able to help secure 54,821 acres (22,185 hectares), now under the protection ofWLT’s local partners.

Belize Hurricane Emergency Appeal

ArgentinaEl Pantanoso (Yungas Forest)Partner: Fundación BiodiversidadArgentinaSaved in 2016: 10,902 acres (4,412hectares)

ArmeniaCaucasus Wildlife Refuge (CaucasusMountains)Partner: Foundation for the Preservation ofWildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC)Saved in 2016: 578 acres (234 hectares)(continued lease of additional 5,076 acres)

BrazilOlympic Forest Reserve (Atlantic Forest)Partner: Reserva Ecologica de Guapiaçu(REGUA)Saved in 2016: 296 acres (120 hectares)

EcuadorRio Machay (Cloud Forest)Partner: Fundación EcoMingaSaved in 2016: 1,512 acres (612 hectares)Buenaventura (Cloud Forest)Partner: Fundación JocotocoSaved in 2016: 116 acres (47 hectares)Nangaritza (Foothill Forest)Partner: Naturaleza y Cultura Ecuador(NCE)Saved in 2016: 193 acres (78 hectares)

HondurasTrifinio - Pacayita Biological Corridor(Pineoak Forest)Partner: Asociación Ecológica de San

Marcos de Ocotepeque (AESMO)Saved in 2016: 35 acres (14 hectares)

IndiaGaro Hills (Tropical Evergreen Forest)Partner: Wildlife Trust of IndiaSaved in 2016: 521 acres (211 hectares)

Malaysian BorneoKeruak corridor (Tropical Rainforest)Partner: HutanSaved in 2016: 6 acres (2.5 hectares)

MexicoSierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve (Cloud,Pine-oak and Rainforest)Partner: Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda(GESG)Saved in 2016: 1,757 acres (711 hectares)

ParaguaySan Rafael (Atlantic Forest)Partner: Guyra ParaguaySaved in 2016: 21 acres (8.5 hectares)

PeruChicuate-Chinguelas (Montane Forest andPáramo)Partner: Naturaleza y Cultura Peru (NCP)Saved in 2016: 29,000 acres (11,735 hectares)

VietnamKhe Nuoc Trong (Lowland Forest)Partner: Viet NatureSaved in 2016: 9,884 acres (4,000 hectares)(continued protection of 49,421 acres)

In August, WLT’s founding project,Programme for Belize (PfB), was hit byHurricane Earl.

Approximately 50,000 acres (20,000hectares) of the project were affected bythe storm and was consequently underhigh risk of further damage from fires. PfB’scity office also suffered significant damagefrom flooding.

WLT launched an emergency appealand raised almost £7,000 to support PfB’srecovery operations.

Buy an Acre is WLT’s signature appeal.In the countries where the Buy an Acreprogram operates, £100 can purchaseone acre of land which is owned andmanaged by our partners. In 2016, Buyan Acre funding supported the ElPantanoso purchase in Argentina andseveral land purchases in Mexico andEcuador.

Sierra Gorda, Mexico

Sierra Gorda contains more than 10different types of vegetation, includingevergreen and deciduous tropical forest,shrubs and cacti, oak forests, pine forestsand cloud forests. It is home to a widerange of animals, including the picturedjuvenile Casquehead Iguana.

Nangaritza, Ecuador

The Nangaritza Valley has anabundance of reptile species, includingthe pictured Rainbow Boa, and manyendemic species, such as the Kingsbury’sRocket Frog (inset right), making the areabiologically distinct from the surroundinglowland Amazon forests.

Buy an Acre


Carbon storage in VietnamMeet the PhD student researching carbonstorage and sequestration in Khe Nuoc Trong

Suzanne Stas is doing her PhD in TropicalForest Ecology with the University ofLeeds in partnership with WLT, studyingcarbon storage and sequestration in WLT’sCarbon Balanced project in Vietnam.

“In 2016, I spent nearly half a year inVietnam to establish forest plots in the KheNuoc Trong forest. Together with two VietNature staff, a botanist and several peoplefrom the nearby village I headed out toseveral sites in the forest.

Most of these sites are pretty remote, sowe built basic forest camps close to ourworking sites. Field days followed prettymuch the same routine: waking up earlymorning to have a filling breakfast with

rice before heading out to our sites tospend the whole day stringing the plot,measuring tree diameters, tree heightsand slopes and identifying tree speciesand stumps from logging. We brought apan and water to cook quickly noodleson firewood for lunch.

In the late afternoon, we headed back tothe camp to wash off the sweat in the river,enjoy dinner with rice wine and fall asleepin our hammocks to the sounds of theforest. Even though you often hear birdsand insects in the forest, other wildlife canbe difficult to spot: there were only a fewdays when we got lucky and saw snakes,monkeys or forest bees.

However, one insect which we saw (andfelt!) every day was the mosquito. Wegathered a vast dataset of forestparameters, which enables us to see thevariation in biomass and carbon stocksacross sites. We are currently analysingwhether differences in logging intensitiesdrive these differences in biomass and howmuch other environmental variablescontribute to these variations.

We were recently in Vietnam again,where we met with WLT, Viet Nature andother key partners in Vietnam to progressthe third-party certification of the Khe NuocTrong project. It is great to see how ourcarbon data is translated directly to theconservation of this beautiful forest on theground.”

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Help Reggie Find Love: WLTcorporate supporter The Body Shopcommitted to one penny pertransaction towards the Vietnamproject when they launched theirBio-Bridges campaign last year,using the Red-shanked Douc‘Reggie’ to promote the campaign

Suzanne’s fieldwork sent her intoKhe Nuoc Trong, where she had tohike through the mountains andrivers to reach their hammock campin the heart of the AnnamiteLowland Forest

WLT had a strong presence at theBritish Birdwatching Fair in 2016.In addition to the usual stand, corporatesupporter Páramo Directional Clothingsponsored a lecture tent for WLT so ourvisiting partners could give talks aboutAtlantic Forest conservation in Brazil, savingthe threatened Yellow-shouldered Parrot onMargarita Island (Venezuela), andconservation and ecotourism in Armenia.

WLT Head of Development DanBradbury also gave a talk about theimportance of the Keepers of the Wild tolong-term protection of WLT reserves, andvisitors to the stand met ManukManukyan, Head Ranger at the CaucasusWildlife Refuge (Armenia).

Paul Best fromPuro FairtradeCoffee was alsopresent on theWLT stand,providingrainforest-friendly coffee inreturn for donations to WLT.

Puro donate two per cent of their salesto buy and protect rainforest through WLTprojects, and last year they fundedprojects in Mexico, Honduras, Peru,Ecuador and Guatemala.

WLT Patron Chris Packham also visitedthe WLT stand, pictured above with WLTFounder CEO John Burton.

WLT at Birdfair, from top left: DanBradbury (WLT), Paul Best (PuroCoffee), Bibiana Sucre (AsociaciónCivil Provita), Raquel Locke(REGUA), Jo Leverett (WLT), EvaMartirosyan (FPWC), Julia Warnes(WLT), Charlotte Beckham (WLT).Bottom, from left: Manuk Manukyan(FPWC), Nicholas Locke (REGUA)

Visits from Armenia, Brazil and Venezuela... and rainforest-friendly coffee!


WLT Accounts 2016Account summary for the year ending

31 December 2016


White-bellied Emerald (Amaziliacandida) photographed at La MilpaField Station in the Rio BravoConservation and ManagementArea, Belize

Financial summary 2016/15Income 2016 (£’000) 2015 (£’000)

Donations and legaciesWLT Friends 341 327Individual donations 1,109 649Corporate donations 535 531Trusts and Foundations 797 706Legacies 75 1,260

Charitable activities 478 476Other trading activities 6 27Investment income 25 24Other - 3

Total income 3,366 4,003

ExpenditureCost of raising voluntary income 305 327Cost of trading and investment management 10 23

Charitable activitiesLand acquisition 2,033 2,135Reserve management 622 635Reforestation 98 270Partnerships and communications 240 187

Total expenditure 3,308 3,577

Movement of fundsIncome less expenditure 58 426Total net gains/(losses) 270 71Net movement in funds 328 497Total funds brought forward 4,191 3,694

Total funds carried forward 4,519 4,191

Represented byFixed assets 2,078 1,498Net Current assets 2,664 3,125Creditors: amounts falling due after one year (223) (432)

Total net assets 4,519 4,191

Analysis of total funds of the charityUnrestricted funds 425 336Revaluation fund 107 107Designated funds 1,747 1,798Restricted funds 1,431 1,270Endowment fund 809 680

Total charity funds 4,519 4,191

Explanatory notes

World Land Trust’s (WLT) Director ofFinance Liz Stone summarises thefinancial year of 2016.

2016 was a year of growth anddevelopment for WLT. Whilst reportingan overall decrease in income against2015, attributable to an exceptionallegacy recognised in the previous year, allother areas have seen stability or growth.Expenditure kept pace with continuedsupport and the development of newconservation projects around the world.69 per cent of expenditure was disbursedor committed to our partners and 91p inevery £1 raised was spent on our charitableactivities.

Brexit dominated the agenda, bothpolitically and internally at WLT. As themajority of our funds are raised in Sterlingand we have strong exposure by supportingour partners in US dollars, the Brexit pounddrop meant we immediately had to raise anadditional 10 per cent of income just tocontinue to fulfil our existing fundingcommitments. We took this in our stride andat the end of its 26th year WLT is in a strongposition both organisationally andfinancially. We are well placed to tacklethe challenges ahead and will continue toensure that all donations entrusted to usachieve maximum conservation impact onthe ground.

The majority of WLT’s total funds carriedforward at the end of 2016 (£4,519,000)are committed to particular projects,geographical areas or activities and areawaiting disbursement.

These are broken down into: Unrestrictedfunds represent the funds for the generaluse of WLT; Revaluation fund representsthe movement of revaluing WLT’sHalesworth property to deemed cost;Designated funds are amounts set asideby the Trustees for specific purposes (thesefunds are not available for the general

operating costs of WLT); Restricted fundsrepresent funds given to WLT for specificprojects or specific geographical locationsor areas (disbursement of funds are inaccordance with relevant conditionsimposed); Endowment fund representsfunds given to WLT under terms requiringthe fund to be invested permanently toprovide income for the futuremanagement of the specified land andreserves.

A detailed breakdown of our funds arecontained within the full Annual Accounts.


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Income Five year report

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Statements

Palmar Tree Frog (Hypsiboas pellucens) photographed in FundacionJocotoco's Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador

The summarised financial information includedabove and page 8 are extracted from the auditedAnnual Accounts for the year ended 31 December2016, which were approved by the Trustee Boardon 21st June 2017.The report of the auditors on the Annual Accountswas unqualified.

The summarised financial information shown doesnot contain sufficient information to allow for afull understanding of the financial affairs of WLT.

A copy of the full Trustees’ Report and AnnualAccounts can be obtained [email protected] or by contacting WLT’sregistered office in Halesworth. The annualaccounts have been submitted to the CharityCommission and Companies House.

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With thanks tosupporters in 2016

Corporatesupporters andcompaniessupporting WLTprojects (£1,500+)A C Gold Electrical Services ABOAirport Parking & Hotels Altavia HTT Aurora LPGBirdfindersCapital International CarbonCoCott Beverages EarthfareEmpatikaEnterprise PlantsEuromonitor InternationalEurostar Group forPlanetGemfieldsGo Green TaxisGoodlife Foods Heal the EarthHH GlobalHumble Bundle Ian Smith Office Products

GroupInnogreenJacada TravelJestico + Whiles Kew Brewery Kingsbury Watermill & The

Waffle HouseLonnies NiteclubMaidenhead AquaticsMedia BountyMiko Coffee NVNeal’s Yard Nikwax Noble HouseOak Furniture UKPáramo Directional

ClothingRainforest Café

Recycled Products Resource Utilities (Green

Mobile)Robert WaltersStafford Railway Building

SocietySteppes TravelStudio One ConsultingSustainSuccess Swire Pacific Offshore

Operations Pte Tapir Apps GmbHTaylor BloxhamThe Body Shop

(International)THTC Clothing Tucan TravelVOYAVW Heritage Parts CentreWildFishGemsWildlife Travel

Other companiesgiving generoussupportAlder Carr FarmAntalisBirdscapes GalleryDarsham NurseriesDRAB Dunhill Private Members

ClubEssential LondonHalesworth Arts FestivalKingfisher PressNature Picture LibraryNaturetrekRococo ChocolateShutterstockSwarovski Optik

FundraisersAdam HigginsonAlice MiltonAlvyda & Nick

Andy FlavellCathriona & PaulChris & Nancy BaumeDan BradburyDan Lambert & Ben

SaundersEd ClarkeEdel HanlyElisabeth DalyEllen BuckinghamGina Lane & colleaguesHelen CoxJacqui JobbinsJamie MossJanine WalshJonathan BriggsKarrim & Ellen JalaliKieran Gillick & Joe RobertsMarion MarshallMichael LuscombeMiranda & William

HerringtonNaomi WaltersPatrick DoneganPeter & Helen

WigglesworthPeter FitzpatrickRob Beale & Phil

Giannecchini Robert GuyRuss SharpRussell Tanner Sarah LathamSteven WareThomas NaisbyTy ToozeWendy & Arabella

Woo-Lake

Legacies & InMemory donationsMargaret BibbyMichael BanesPearl BoatmanGeoffrey Forrest

Richard EllingworthJane PointerJenny Smithson

Trusts,foundations,schools & zoos(£1,500+)ArcadiaBritish & Irish Association of

Zoos and Aquariums(BIAZA)

Chessington World ofAdventures & Zoo

Clutton Primary SchoolErnest Kleinwort Charitable

TrustEuropean Outdoor

Conservation AssociationHampshire Collegiate Prep

SchoolHugh Anderson Legacy TrustJosephine P and John J Louis

FoundationKilverstone Wildlife

Charitable TrustMuriel Jones FoundationOceanarium BournemouthOil Aid

Ornithological Society ofthe Middle East (OSME)

Stichting WildlifeTayto ParkThe British CouncilThe Francis Wildlife

Charitable FoundationThe Generations TrustThe Lyddon Charitable

TrustThe Lyminster TrustThe Peter Smith Charitable

Trust for NatureThe Ridgeback Charitable

TrustThe Stephen and Joanne

Vaughan CharitableTrust

WLT Ambassadorsin 2016Diane AbelaDavid BackEmma BeckettNick BrownNick CaunterSarah ClassNicola DaviesField Marshall Sir John

ChappleRobert FinchJo FinchDan FreemanAlex Gregory-PeakeAnna HaberTony HawksSu IngleChris JenkinDomini JonesJonny LuBill OddieRenton RighelatoPatrick SherriffEmma TozerKristina TurnerMarianne van Pelt

Over 10,900 acres (4,400 hectares) of YungasForest (Argentina) was secured in May 2016,protecting the habitat of several cat species,including the pictured Margay. This purchasewas made possible thanks to support fromArcadia, BIAZA, donations to Buy an AcreArgentina and Jane Pointer’s legacy

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Green Ink: Thank you to all our Green Ink authors, artists, translatorsand editors who have donated the Public Lending Rights in their booksto WLT.

And thank you to everyone who contributed to our work in 2016

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)(Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation with theEuropean Parliament, the Council of the EuropeanUnion and the European Commission that theyintend to strengthen by ensuring data protectionfor all individuals within the European Union. Theprimary objectives of the GDPR are to give controlback to individuals over their personal information.The new regulation was adopted on 27 April 2016and comes into force on 25 May 2018. It will then

replace the data protection directive from 1995.Leading up to the implementation of the GDPRWLT will be adhering to the recommendations andwill not be publishing the names of individualdonors. Over the next few months we will be givingsupporters an opportunity to state their choice andconfirm that they are willing for their names to bepublished if and when appropriate. Our policy ofnever passing on details to third parties will remainin place.


Patrons Sir David Attenborough OM CH FRS,Steve Backshall, David Gower OBE &Chris Packham

Honorary PresidentDr Gerard A Bertrand

TrusteesMyles Archibald (Hon Treasurer), NickBrown, Sir Kenneth Carlisle, Kevin Cox,Nicola Davies, Rohini Finch, Simon Lyster(Chair) Nigel Simpson, Miranda Stevenson,Andrew von Preussen

Council MembersAlbertino Abela, Mark Avery, Iain Barr, MarkCarwardine, Willem Ferwerda, AlistairGammell, Mark Gruin, Stanley Johnson,Mark Leaney, Pauline Martin, Iain Orr,Bruce Pearson, Richard Porter, MarkStanley Price, David Wallis, Sue Wells

StaffWLT employed 26 full and part-time staffmembers in 2016 at the WLT office inHalesworth, Suffolk.

Who’s Who at WLT

Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG)hosted the 2016 WLT Alliance Symposium,which was held for members of the allianceto exchange stories and learn from eachother.

The collated experiences shared by themembers of the Alliance at the PartnerSymposia have been invaluable learningexperiences for young conservationists andNGOs.“The symposia have been key to my

professional development, and comingto Sierra Gorda has again given meinspiration and increased my desire towork in conservation with NGOprojects on the ground.”

Bibiana Sucre, Executive Director ofAsociación Civil Provita (Venezuela)

The Board of Trustees, Advisory Council, Staff and

partner organisations behind World Land Trust

ProgrammePartners andoverseasorganisationsWLT workedwith in 2016ArgentinaFundación Biodiversidad-ArgentinaFundación Naturaleza para elFuturo (FuNaFu)Fundación Patagonia NaturalArmeniaFoundation for the Preservationof Wildlife & Cultural Assets(FPWC)BelizeProgramme for BelizeBoliviaAsociación ArmoníaFundacion Natura Bolivia

BrazilReserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu(REGUA)ChileFundacion MelimoyuColombiaFundación ProAvesEcuadorFundación EcoMingaFundación JocotocoFundación Pro-BosqueNaturaleza y Cultura Ecuador(NCE)GuatemalaFundación para el Ecodesarrolloy la Conservación (FUNDAECO)HondurasAsociación Ecológica de SanMarcos de Ocotepeque(AESMO)IndiaWildlife Trust of IndiaIranIranian Cheetah Society

KenyaNature KenyaMalaysian BorneoHutanLeap SpiralMexicoGrupo Ecológico SierraGordaParaguayGuyra ParaguayPeruNaturaleza y Cultura Peru(NCP)PhilippinesPhilippine Reef and

Rainforest ConservationFoundationUnited KingdomThe Conservation Volunteers(Gloucestershire)VenezuelaAsociación Civil ProvitaVietnamViet Nature ConservationCentreZambiaKasanka Trust Wildlife andEnvironmentalConservation Society of Zambia(WECSZ)

OperationalPartnersAmerican Bird Conservancy Accionatura (Spain)British Trust for Ornithology IUCN National Committeeof the Netherlands Nature and CultureInternational

October 2016: Representatives of 19 organisations from 16 countries cametogether for the 2016 WLT Alliance Symposium, held in Sierra Gorda,Mexico. WLT Symposia are held every 18 months to exchange experienceand knowledge between conservation NGOs all over the world

Contact usTo make adonation, pleasevisit the WLTwebsiteworldlandtrust.orgor call theHalesworth office at+44 (0)1986 874422.

Requests andquestions can alsobe emailed to [email protected] your enquirywill be forwarded tothe relevantmember of staff.

WLT Symposium: Reflection on 10 years of the WLT Alliance

WLT Council Member, wildlifephotographer and writer MarkCarwardine spoke at afundraising event for WLT duringthe Halesworth Art Festival

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Each year in March, the EuropeanOutdoor Conservation Association(EOCA) holds an online poll featuringimportant wildlife conservation projectsfrom around the world.

The winning project receives a grant of£25,000 from EOCA, which is made up ofbusinesses from the European outdoorindustry.

In 2016, WLT submitted the ‘Saving theSpectacled Bear’ project on behalf ofEcuadorian partner Fundación Jocotoco.The Spectacled Bear’s habitat is graduallydisappearing, threatened by road buildingand fire, agriculture and the spread ofhuman settlement.

Thanks to a huge response from the WLTonline community, WLT won the grant with55 per cent of the votes. By the end of theyear, the Spectacled Bear conservationproject was well under way, with 10 cameratraps purchased and placed within thereserve as part of a bear monitoring

program. The grant also supported aneducational exhibition about the bears anda comprehensive fire prevention programto reduce risk to the bear habitat.

2016 Fundraisers: Top right, BethanMcFadden, bottom right, Rob Bealeand Phil Giannecchini and left,Wendy and Arabella Woo Lake

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WLT’s work is strengthened by thecommitment and creativity offundraisers, whose efforts are not onlyincredibly valuable due to the funds theyraise for important appeals, but also asinspirationalambassadorswho spread theword about thework we do.

2016 saw agreat range offundraisingactivities whichaltogetherraised £35,970,from wildlifeartist BethanMcFadden’s artexhibition ‘Vanishing Species’ and a‘Zoolympics’ from Dudley ZoologicalGardens, to mother and daughter Wendyand Arabella Woo Lake walking over300 miles around the UK and Rob Beale andPhil Giannecchini running the London2 Brighton ultramarathon.

A very special thank you tofundraisers

Using Carbon Balanced Paper is a simpleway to reduce the carbon impact of yourmarketing communications and supportWLT’s land protection projects at the sametime. Ask your printer to quote on CarbonBalanced Paper.

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Keep track of voting opportunities!The EOCA vote forSaving theSpectacled Bear wasfeatured in WLT’smonthly eBulletin,as well as WLT’ssocial media. Signup for the eBulletinon the WLT websiteand follow WLT onFacebook,Instagram andTwitter for thelatest conservation news

World Land Trust, Blyth House, Bridge Street, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8AB, UK Tel: 01986 874422 Fax: 01986 874425 Email: [email protected] Registered Charity 1001291

Ways to get involved and make a differenceVoting for Spectacled Bears, running for the Olympic Forestand using art to raise awareness and funds

Spectacled Bear mother and cubphotographed in FundaciónJocotoco’s Antisana Reserve, Ecuador


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