World Land Trust - US

World Land Trust - US

The World Land Trust-US (formerly World Parks Endowment) is a US-based nonprofit environmental organization established in 1989 and in 2006 affiliated with World Land Trust, a UK-based nonprofit environmental organization as both organizations are dedicated to minimizing their costs in order to allow donated funds to flow to real habitat conservation projects on the ground. Its mission is dedicated to protecting lands that conserve the most threatened species and endangered ecosystems, working largely in the rainforest and cloud forests of the Latin American tropics, the world's highest biodiversity priority. For this purpose, it privately funds the purchase of large tracts of land by local NGO's for the purposes of protecting it, in a fashion similar to the Nature Conservancy by making use of land trusts. The organization also seeks to help in-situ conservation measures by providing training, capital and equipment for environmental stewardship in economically impoverished areas. The World Land Trust-US also offers to offset the carbon emissions of individuals and businesses [http://www.carbonbalanced.org/] .

Most purchases are made at an average of only $100 an acre. Since its founding, WLT-US has saved over convert|700000|acre|km2 of land -- convert|62500|acre|km2 purchased outright and over convert|600000|acre|km2 created as governmental protected areas.

List of projects

* Tropical Forest Project, Ecuador
* Carbon Sequestration Project, Ecuador
* R.E.G.U.A. (Reserva Ecologica de Guapiaçu) Brazil protects one of the last stands of tropical rainforest left in the severely depleted Atlantic Rainforest and is situated about 80 km NE of Rio de Janeiro.
* Cosanga Valley, Ecuador working with the owners of Cabanas San Isidro and other conservation-minded people in the Cosanga Valley of Ecuador to buy forested lands that are for sale at reasonable prices. These lands are covered by Andean cloud forests.

External links

* [http://www.worldlandtrust-us.org/ Official website of the WLT-US]


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