World Land Trust Archieven - Nikwax https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/tag/world-land-trust/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:43:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://nikwax.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.webp World Land Trust Archieven - Nikwax https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/tag/world-land-trust/ 32 32 Nikwax and the World Land Trust, a partnership to help protect the natural world https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2023/12/19/nikwax-and-the-world-land-trust-a-partnership-to-help-protect-the-natural-world/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2023/12/19/nikwax-and-the-world-land-trust-a-partnership-to-help-protect-the-natural-world/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:57:21 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2023/12/19/nikwax-and-the-world-land-trust-a-partnership-to-help-protect-the-natural-world/ To end 2023, we are thrilled to share with you a guest blog from Tracey Butler, Corporate Partnerships Manager at our longstanding environmental partner World Land Trust (WLT), the international conservation charity that protects the world’s most biologically significant and threatened habitats. Working through a network of partner organisations around the world, WLT funds the...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2023/12/19/nikwax-and-the-world-land-trust-a-partnership-to-help-protect-the-natural-world/feed/ 0 Why we need to keep global temperature increases within 1.5°C. https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2023/07/11/why-we-need-to-keep-global-temperature-increases-within-1-5c/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2023/07/11/why-we-need-to-keep-global-temperature-increases-within-1-5c/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:49:40 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2023/07/11/why-we-need-to-keep-global-temperature-increases-within-1-5c/ In last month’s blog we covered some of the basic principles around climate change and what causes global warming. Today, we hear a lot about keeping global temperature increases within 1.5°C, and so, in this blog we are looking at the significance of 1.5°C, why we started talking about it, and why it’s so important....

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2023/07/11/why-we-need-to-keep-global-temperature-increases-within-1-5c/feed/ 0 Interview: we talk environment, sustainability and lockdown, with Nikwax’s Sustainability Director https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2021/02/23/interview-we-talk-environment-sustainability-and-lockdown-with-nikwaxs-sustainability-director/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2021/02/23/interview-we-talk-environment-sustainability-and-lockdown-with-nikwaxs-sustainability-director/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2021 15:02:10 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2021/02/23/interview-we-talk-environment-sustainability-and-lockdown-with-nikwaxs-sustainability-director/ Here at Nikwax, our passion for the great outdoors and protection of the environment is at the heart of what we do. We constantly strive to improve our sustainability and environmental credentials throughout the business, and with that focus, we employed our own Director of Sustainability. We speak to Maïté Angleys about Nikwax, the outdoor...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2021/02/23/interview-we-talk-environment-sustainability-and-lockdown-with-nikwaxs-sustainability-director/feed/ 0 The Nikwax Philosophy – More Than Waterproofing. Part 3 – Supporting Conservation https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2019/02/06/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-3-supporting-conservation/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2019/02/06/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-3-supporting-conservation/#respond Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:13:18 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2019/02/06/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-3-supporting-conservation/ At Nikwax, our focus is on the great outdoors and ensuring we can help people enjoy being outside and making the most of the natural world. Apart from creating aftercare which helps keep people warm, safe and dry outdoors, we also place emphasis upon the responsibility we hold to help care and protect the natural...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2019/02/06/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-3-supporting-conservation/feed/ 0 THE NIKWAX PHILOSOPHY – More Than Waterproofing. Part 2 – Carbon Balanced with World Land Trust https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2018/12/20/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-2-carbon-balanced-with-world-land-trust/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2018/12/20/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-2-carbon-balanced-with-world-land-trust/#respond Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:00:52 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2018/12/20/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-2-carbon-balanced-with-world-land-trust/ At Nikwax we have always firmly believed that we should care for the environment in any way that we can and be committed to low impact – both in terms of the products we make and also with our environmental footprint. This logo represents the Nikwax approach to reducing its carbon impact. It is a...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2018/12/20/the-nikwax-philosophy-more-than-waterproofing-part-2-carbon-balanced-with-world-land-trust/feed/ 0 Nikwax 40 Year Round Up https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/12/04/nikwax-40-year-round-up/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/12/04/nikwax-40-year-round-up/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:00:23 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2017/12/04/nikwax-40-year-round-up/ As we are coming to the end of our 40th birthday year we thought it would be great to share some of our highlights with you! Here are our favourite moments from the year:    

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/12/04/nikwax-40-year-round-up/feed/ 0 Nikwax proud to balance its carbon emissions for 40 years https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/07/31/nikwax-proud-to-balance-its-carbon-emissions-for-40-years/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/07/31/nikwax-proud-to-balance-its-carbon-emissions-for-40-years/#respond Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:26:54 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2017/07/31/nikwax-proud-to-balance-its-carbon-emissions-for-40-years/ More Than Waterproofing –  In their 40th year Nikwax is proud to have balanced all their operational carbon emissions since their start. Maintaining their commitment to conserving and protecting the natural world. As Nikwax celebrates its 40th year as a forward thinking, innovative company, we are also proud to be celebrating the fact that we...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/07/31/nikwax-proud-to-balance-its-carbon-emissions-for-40-years/feed/ 0 Carbon For Conservation https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/01/06/carbon-for-conservation/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/01/06/carbon-for-conservation/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:51:57 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2017/01/06/carbon-for-conservation/ For almost a decade Nikwax has been supporting World Land Trust (WLT) in safeguarding and restoring critically threatened habitats around the world through the Carbon Balanced programme. Nikwax’s approach to environmental sustainability is completely in line with the offsetting programme’s ethos of measure, reduce and then offset greenhouse gas emissions. Launched in 2005, the Carbon...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2017/01/06/carbon-for-conservation/feed/ 0 River dancing: my quest to save the rainforest https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2015/05/14/river-dancing-my-quest-to-save-the-rainforest/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2015/05/14/river-dancing-my-quest-to-save-the-rainforest/#respond Thu, 14 May 2015 10:52:40 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2015/05/14/river-dancing-my-quest-to-save-the-rainforest/ A guest blog this month comes from BBC wildlife presenter and Strictly Come Dancing star, Steve Backshall. Easter and its lure of chocolate hold nothing over me: Easter is a time for doing adventurous things. So when I got booted off Strictly, signing up to kayak the 125 miles from Devizes to the Houses of...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2015/05/14/river-dancing-my-quest-to-save-the-rainforest/feed/ 0 WLT – Save the Andean Condor https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2015/03/12/wlt-save-the-andean-condor/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2015/03/12/wlt-save-the-andean-condor/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:49:31 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2015/03/12/wlt-save-the-andean-condor/ Soaring high above the mountains in the very remotest parts of South America, the Andean Condor is a spectacular sight. With a wing span of up to three metres, the Andean Condor has a vast range, flying over lowland desert and coastal regions of South America as well as riding thermal currents high over the...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2015/03/12/wlt-save-the-andean-condor/feed/ 0 Nikwax helps protect habitat for Jaguar, Spectacled Bear and Baird’s Tapir in Colombia https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2014/11/11/nikwax-helps-protect-habitat-for-jaguar-spectacled-bear-and-bairds-tapir-in-colombia/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2014/11/11/nikwax-helps-protect-habitat-for-jaguar-spectacled-bear-and-bairds-tapir-in-colombia/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:09:22 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2014/11/11/nikwax-helps-protect-habitat-for-jaguar-spectacled-bear-and-bairds-tapir-in-colombia/ 1,772 acres of Colombia’s threatened Chocó Rainforest has now been saved thanks in part to funding from World Land Trust, and Nikwax is delighted to have played its part in this purchase! This year, Nikwax has donated £6,364.20 to the World Land Trust’s (WLT) Action Fund for the trust’s most urgent land purchase and protection projects. 2014 is...

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]]> https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2014/11/11/nikwax-helps-protect-habitat-for-jaguar-spectacled-bear-and-bairds-tapir-in-colombia/feed/ 0 World Land Trust needs your votes to help its Caucasian Leopard project! https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2014/03/20/world-land-trust-needs-your-votes-to-help-its-caucasian-leopard-project/ https://nikwax.com/en-gb/blog/2014/03/20/world-land-trust-needs-your-votes-to-help-its-caucasian-leopard-project/#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:40:35 +0000 https://nikwax.com/blog/2014/03/20/world-land-trust-needs-your-votes-to-help-its-caucasian-leopard-project/ WLT could win a €30,000 grant from National Geographic Germany for its Caucasian Leopard project and you can help by casting your vote!  National Geographic Germany is a member of the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA), who shortlisted the World Land Trust’s (WLT) project for this public vote. Nikwax, a long standing WLT corporate supporter,...

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