Gradually national participation and leadership grows, as does the international influence of the project. Visitors begin to arrive in significant numbers from many countries. The Portuguese project is under national management, so the UK Trustees decide to respond to requests for help from elsewhere. The decision is taken to focus on distinctively Christian projects for nature conservation in particularly needy parts of the world. Peter and Miranda Harris begin travelling to help other national projects get off the ground.
Informal groups form in Brazil and the Czech Republic.
Discussions are held in several other countries where Christians want to begin practical projects to express their sense that God cares deeply for his creation. All in A Rocha become aware that they are fully stretched but that much more could be done if we had the resources. Early discussions at the Aammiq marsh, Lebanon, in May 1998. The international network takes off From the small beginnings in the UK seventeen years ago, we have become an international network of national movements, each with their own local relevance, support and impact. We are preserving wetlands in Lebanon and Portugal, working in a Kenyan forest, teaching in France and the UK, and organising activities in Canada and the Czech Republic.