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The World Land Trust estimates deforestation in the Paraguay Chaco at over 200.000 hectare for 2008 alone

Land trust

There are land trusts working in Canada (e.g. Wildlife Preservation Canada, Edmonton & Area Land Trust, Ecotrust Canada, Georgian Bay Land Trust and Thames Talbot Land Trust), Mexico, and other countries worldwide, in addition to international land trusts like The Nature Conservancy and the World Land Trust.

World Land Trust

Other high profile supporters of the Trust have included Ken Livingstone, David Bellamy, Bill Oddie, Frank Thornton, Simon Barnes and Mark Carwardine .

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An initial appeal was made in the BBC Wildlife magazine in April 1989 and was followed up by a fundraiser by noted naturalists Gerald Durrell and his wife Lee Durrell at the London Butterfly House in May 1989 when the Durrells formally declared the Trust open.

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