John Burton, who has died aged 78, was no ordinary conservationist. Radical, visionary and inspirational, he challenged the usual approaches to saving wild creatures and their habitats through his creation of the World Land Trust (WLT), an organisation he set up with his wife, Viv.
WLT arose from a 1988 campaign in which John became involved in raising funds to save 110,000 acres (45,000 hectares) of tropical forest in Belize that were about to be cleared for agriculture.
