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Recent Wildlife Focus News


April 28, 2010

Do you have a photo of a Maned Wolf?



Do you have images of Maned Wolves, Spectacled Bears or Giant Anteaters? The World Land Trust are currently producing a new educational fundraising resource called Running in the Corridors to encourage teachers and students to raise money for current World Land Trust supported project areas.
As part of the resource for Key Stages 1 and [...]

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April 16, 2010

New webcam in the Brazilian Rainforest



An interview with our Atlantic Rainforest webcam creator
As many of you will have noticed there has been an exciting addition to our webcams. The The Atlantic Rainforest webcam was set up by WLT friend Luciano Breves and streams live from the Southern Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil’s Parana state.
Green-headed Tanager: one of the species you may [...]

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November 6, 2009

Wildlife webcam receives unusual visitor



If you were lucky, yesterday you may have caught a Collared Aracari Toucan on the wildlife webcam in Buenaventura Reserve, Ecuador.
The feeding platform behind the hummingbird feeder us usually visited by a raucous band of coatis, but the toucan appeared around 10am Ecuador time and stayed eating plantain for about 5 minutes before flying off [...]

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July 22, 2009

Webcam in the Forest: Now with sound!



We have installed new webcam equipment at Buenaventura in Ecuador and as promised we are now broadcasting the Webcam in the Forest live with sound. We invite you all to listen to some of the over 30 different species of bird that live in the reserve.

For the next few days we will be tweaking the [...]

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April 2, 2009

World Land Trust Conservation Projects on Google Earth.



Ever wondered where exactly the Buenaventura Reserve is in Ecuador? Or where in India WLT are helping to protect Elephants? Well now with a little help from Google Earth you can find out! WLT have created a Google Earth file showing a selection of it’s supported reserves complete with polygons, images and links to help [...]

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February 10, 2009

Name that bird!



When watching the webcam early this morning I was pleasantly surprised to see a couple of large "turkey" like birds come to the wooden feeder to sample some of the plantain placed there by the Buenaventura staff. This was the first time I have seen these birds on the cam – and before I make [...]

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October 27, 2008

New Video sharing section on Wildlife Focus



Upload your video and win DVD!
Here at Wildlife Focus we really want people to get involved with the site by contributing wildlife related content such as photos, videos and your wildlife experiences. The idea is that in time the site will become a place, not only where people can learn more about the World Land [...]

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October 22, 2008

Ants eat webcam router!



If you are reading this blog then you will be aware that the webcam has been offline for some time due to the lack of internet connection at the reserve. Amongst other things these "technical" difficulties were due to the extremely damp conditions in the tropics shorting out our circuits and the wires inside the [...]

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September 25, 2008

New WLT Project Appeal in Borneo



The World Land Trust has launched an exiting new appeal to help protect some of the last remaining forests of Borneo – some of the biologically richest regions on earth. One of the most striking creatures in these forests is the Orang-utan – over 600 of which will be protected in the area WLT aims [...]

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August 11, 2008

Free Wildlife Wallpapers from the World Land Trust



You can now download stunning images from the World Land Trust partner reserves to use as your as desktop backgrounds on the new Wildlife Wallpaper section of the site. The wallpapers are all high quality and have been specially selected to brighten up your monitor whilst at the same time helping to raise awareness for [...]

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