Save the Forests Appeal
The World Land Trust has a vision: "to protect the world’s most threatened habitats and species for the future". An international conservation charity, it protects the world's most biologically significant and threatened habitats - and it's Action Fund means it can move swiftly to save habitat which is under immediate threat.
The Trust was founded back in 1984, and so far, the Trust and its supporters have protected 3,307,362 acres, protected over 13,000 species, planted 2,347,843 trees and co-funded 3,575,259 more acres. That's a huge achievement!
And they have an appeal, launched in March 2025, to raise £443,540. Their partner, AESMO, can then expand the work it does to protect the cloud forests and watersheds of Western Honduras.
The Trifinio region there is home to beautiful mountains, waterfalls, streams and forests. It provides essential clean water to local people – over 250,000 of them.
Like so many forests, these are under threat. You see, 1,257,764 acres of humid primary forest were cut down in Honduras between 2002 and 2032. The land was wanted for coffee plantations and cattle pastures.
This destruction has meant that the forests are very fragmented – there are just patches left in vast tracts of land that is degraded.
Please support this appeal. It will mean AESMO can save 225 acres of cloud forest – all very precious. The land to be purchased includes a 77 acre property with four water springs, and the land next to it is being used for coffee farming – so likely to be deforested next. It’s essential that this appeal comes through as soon as possible to save the forest that’s left.
A successful appeal will mean the land can be purchased, and three rangers employed for three years. They will undertake tasks such as:
Patrols to prevent hunting and forest fires
Regular biodiversity monitoring
Using camera traps to record species
Reforestation tasks
Measuring water sources
Wildlife will of course benefit from the protected forests, including beautiful birds such as the Wine-throated Hummingbird and the Golden-cheeked Warbler.
There are amphibians such as the Cerro Pital Salamander and the Honduras White-lipped Frog (both critically endangered) plus the Monte Cristi Graceful Brown Snake and the Merendon Palm Pit Viper. And don’t forget the Margay (tree ocelot)!
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