World Land Trust - US
Encyclopedia
The World Land Trust-US 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 trust
s. 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 and protected over 1700000 acres (6,879.7 km²) of tropical rainforest lands.
Nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
environmental organization
Environmental organization
An environmental organization is an organization that seeks to protect, analyze or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation or lobby for these goals....
established in 1989 and in 2006 affiliated with World Land Trust
World Land Trust
The World Land Trust is a UK-based nonprofit environmental organization established in 1989. Its primary aims are to ensure conservation of plants, animals and natural communities in areas at risk...
, a UK-based nonprofit
Nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
environmental organization
Environmental organization
An environmental organization is an organization that seeks to protect, analyze or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation or lobby for these goals....
as both organizations are dedicated to minimizing their costs in order to allow donated funds to flow to real habitat conservation
Habitat conservation
Habitat conservation is a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range...
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 trust
Land trust
There are two distinct definitions of a land trust:* a private, nonprofit organization that, as all or part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisition, or by its stewardship of such land or easements; or* an agreement...
s. The organization also seeks to help in-situ conservation
In-situ conservation
In-situ conservation is on-site conservation or the conservation of genetic resources in natural populations of plant or animal species, such as forest genetic resources in natural populations of tree species...
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
Carbon offset
A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....
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 and protected over 1700000 acres (6,879.7 km²) of tropical rainforest lands.
Project examples
- Fundación de Conservación JocotocoFundación de Conservación JocotocoFundación de Conservación Jocotoco is an Ecuadorian non-governmental environmental organization. Fundación Jocotoco was founded in 1998 when a group of conservationists came together to purchase the type locality of the newly discovered Jocotoco Antpitta . Robert S...
http://www.fjocotoco.org/ critical habitat protection in EcuadorEcuadorEcuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, - Fundación ProAvesFundación ProAvesFundación ProAves is a nonprofit environmental organization in Colombia established in 1998. Its primary aims are to protects birds of conservation concern and their habitats across Colombia.ProAves has over 60 full-time professional staff...
http://www.proaves.org/ critical habitat protection in ColombiaColombiaColombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, - Asociacion Armoníahttp://www.armonia-bo.org/ critical habitat protection in BoliviaBoliviaBolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
, - Reserva Ecologica de Guapiaçu (REGUA) BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
Atlantic Rainforest protection,