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Since its foundation in 1989, the World Land Trust has helped bring about the purchase and protection of more than 540,000 acres of wildlife habitat in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the UK.
Its current projects are concentrated in Ecuador and Mexico.
Buenaventura, Ecuador
A reserve rich in endangered bird species in low altitude cloud forest in southwestern Ecuador.
Tapichalaca, Ecuador
High in the Andes, a reserve with an astonishing 150 threatened plant species, plus endangered birds, frogs, bears and tapirs.
Yanacocha, Ecuador
A project involving the protection and regeneration of critically threatened Polylepis woodland just 15km from the capital of Quito, high on the slopes of a volcano that overlooks the city.
Sierra Gorda, Mexico
A carbon sequestration scheme providing smallholders with incentives to reforest over-grazed and eroding plots with native conifers, promoting ecological regeneration and wastershed restoration.