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World Land Trust’s conservation partners worldwide are managing vast areas of wilderness with few resources. By funding reserve wardens we can ensure active protection of these reserves and enable habitat restoration while providing employment opportunities in remote communities.
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Situation
WLT purchases and protects threatened habitats, such as tropical forests and wetlands, crucial for the survival of endangered species. Following the creation of reserve areas, active protection and regular patrolling is needed to prevent incursions and damage. Our project partners are often co-ordinating these activities over an enormous area and are logistically and financially stretched as greater areas of land come under their management.
Solution
This project will ensure effective protection of WLT-funded reserves by providing our partners with the means to employ and equip rangers at as many reserves as possible. Rangers are usually recruited from the local community, have a very good knowledge o