World Land Trust

The World Land Trust (WLT) is an international conservation charity that works through partnerships with local organisations to protect the world’s most threatened habitats. Its approach focuses on securing land for conservation, creating habitat corridors, restoring degraded forests, and supporting research on threatened and newly discovered species. 

Many of the habitats where WLT operates are home to species found nowhere else on Earth, yet face intense pressure from deforestation, industrial farming, and habitat fragmentation. Conserving these landscapes is essential not only for biodiversity but also for the communities that rely on healthy ecosystems. Working at a local level through trusted partners ensures that conservation efforts are effective, long-lasting, and tailored to each landscape’s unique ecological and social context. 

With ERF support, WLT’s partners are delivering projects across multiple biodiversity hotspots. These include Fundación Jocotoco expanding Ecuador’s Buenaventura Reserve and scaling up cloud forest restoration; ECOTRUST creating a chimpanzee corridor in Uganda’s Albertine Rift and planting 50,000 native trees; Foundation for Eco-development and Conservation (FUNDAECO), expanding Full Conservation Zones and establishing biological corridors in Guatemala; and the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group restoring coastal forests in Tanzania to safeguard elephant migration routes and community-managed reserves. Together, these projects protect critical habitats, strengthen ecological connectivity, and deliver tangible benefits for both wildlife and people. 

WLT – The video below is a snapshot of their work in 2022.