1. Make WLT your partner - or become a sponsor

The most effective way you can support the World Land Trust is by choosing to become a WLT partner. Partners pledge to donate £5 a month or more for at least a year. This helps us plan ahead, knowing that we have a secure income. One week per month, instead of that bottle of wine, save a piece of wildlife habitat instead! Business and organisations can sponsor the WLT - see our sponsors page for more information.

2. Make a donation to help save rainforest - Save an Acre

One acre of rainforest, steppe or other threatened land costs just £50. Imagine 'owning' a piece of unique wilderness, with the multitude of wildlife it supports. With your help we can protect these biologically important areas and you can proudly display your certificate, knowing that you have made a difference. Save an acre of rainforest here.

3. Save rainforest as a unique gift - Give an Acre

Why not give an acre as a gift for a friend or loved one? The perfect gift for the person who has everything - or who wants nothing, this is literally a gift for the world. Whether for a birthday, wedding, Christening or anniversary, by saving an irreplaceable piece of wildlife habitat you will give a gift that lasts forever and your gift recipient will receive a personalised certificate showing the area you have saved on his or her behalf.

4. Save rainforest when you earn with payroll giving (UK only)

Here's an easy way to support wildlife conservation: If the company you work for runs a Payroll Giving programme, you can have a donation to the World Land Trust deducted straight from your gross salary. You can give as much as you like and donations are tax free.

If your company does not yet run a Payroll Giving programme, did you know that the Government is offering one off grants of up to £500 to encourage businesses with less than 500 employees to participate? And that's not all, the government will also match the donations of each employee for six months from the time of their first donation. As the donation is taken off the monthly wage packet before tax, this means a donation of £10 will only cost the standard rate employee £7.80 while the charity will receive a whopping £20.00.

Persuade your employer to set up a Payroll Giving programme, and persuade your colleagues to donate to the World Land Trust. Fifty people donating £10 a month for six months would raise £6000. This is enough to buy a whole rainforest nature reserve – and it could even be named after the company.

For further information or help contact the World Land Trust. More information about Payroll Giving in the UK, including a list of Payroll Giving agencies, can be found on the HM Revenue & Customs website: www.hmrc.gov.uk/payrollgiving.

5. Save rainforest when you support a WLT sponsor

Many of the Trust's sponsors make donations to the WLT when supporters become their customers. For example:

• By opening an Affinity Savings Account with Stafford Railway Building Society you can save money and wildlife habitats at the same time.
• Visit the Rainforest Cafe in London for an educational tour, or order their special rainforest dish, and Rainforest Cafe will make a donation to the World Land Trust.

For more information on our sponsors and how they support the Trust, see our Sponsors pages.

6. Balance your carbon emissions and save rainforest

Why not help offset the carbon produced by your activities such as boiling a kettle, using a computer or going on holiday at our CarbonBalanced.org website. By making a donation to save rainforest trees, you can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.

7. Raise money when you sell on eBay

You can now support us when you sell items on eBay. All you need to do is select the World Land Trust as the benefiting charity and for each item successfully sold on eBay, a percentage of the price (as chosen by you) is directed to WLT. The listed charity items will appear with an “eBay for charity icon” along with the WLT logo.

Go to eBay for Charity to find out more.

8. Give us your time - work for the World Land Trust

The Trust has a very successful six-month internship programme which aims to equip recent graduates with the skills and experience needed for a career in conservation. From time to time other voluntary opportunities and paid vacancies are also available. See our Jobs and Internship page for more details.

9. Buy WLT's exclusive Christmas cards...or send free ecards

Buy our exclusive wildlife Christmas cards. You can also send Wildlife eCards - WLT's free electronic cards.

10. Join Green Ink - Authors and actors that help save wilderness

Are you an author or artist? Then you can support the World Land Trust through Green Ink. Through Green Ink, you can assign your Public Lending Rights to the WLT and help save wildlife habitats.

11. Recycle your empty printer cartridges and support the WLT

If you live in the UK you can support the WLT by donating your empty Inkjet and Toner cartridges. Simply complete this form for free cartridge collection.

12. Fundraise to help save wildlife habitats

Schools and youth clubs can save wildlife habitats by undertaking fundraising activities for the Trust. And there's a bonus: Not only will you help save rainforest, your school gets a place in the prestigious WLT Fundraising Hall of Fame. For some great fundraising ideas see the Top 20 tips on raising funds.

Raising funds online

A great way to raise money for rainforest through wedding gifts, birthdays and sponsored events.

World Land Trust has teamed up with justgiving.com so that all our fundraisers can raise money quickly and easily online with their own personalised webpages. To set up your page today visit www.justgiving.com/worldland/raisemoney or call justgiving.com on 0800 028 6183 for more details.

13. Save rainforest for free with a click of your mouse

...when you search the web with everyclick.com

Everyclick.com is an internet search engine with a big difference - it donates half its revenues to charity! It does not cost the WLT, or you, a penny. To support World Land Trust every time you search the web, just make www.everyclick.com/uk/worldlandtrust your home page and make sure you use it whenever you search the web.

Remember to tell your friends to use everyclick.com too. You can do this on www.everyclick.com/uk/myeveryclick/nomfriends

...through the Ecology Fund

Bookmark the Ecology Fund website and visit every day. By clicking on the 'Save Land' buttons, advertisers on the site will pay for wilderness land to be saved - you pay nothing. For a totally free way to help, visit the Ecology Fund.

14. Make a will or buy a green memorial gift

You can help save wildlife habitats by remembering the World Land Trust in your will, or by saving acres as a green memorial gift.

15. If you like what we do - tell your friends about us

If you feel our work is important, please tell others about us. The more supporters we have, the more land we are able to save. Word of mouth is one of the most effective ways of marketing - and it's completely free! Here are some suggestions on how to help spread the word:

• Send a Wildlife eCard. ECards are the perfect paperless alternative to traditional cards and an excellent way of letting others know about the World Land Trust.
• Join or link to WLT from your social networking profiles. Check out WLT's profiles on MySpace and Facebook, and join our online communities.
• If you have your own website, create link to the World Land Trust. You will not only help generate traffic to our site directly, but by increasing our link popularity, the WLT will improve its ranking in the search engines. The better the ranking, the more traffic and donations we will get and the more rainforest we will be able to save.

  You don't have to link to our start page either; why not link to this page as a way of letting others know how they can help save wildlife habitats.

• Add a WLT link to your email signature. Here is an example:

  Take positive action today: £50 saves one acre of
  rainforest or other wildlife habitat in a REAL place, FOREVER.
  http://www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/donation.htm