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World Wildlife Fund was founded on April 29, 1961 in Gland Switzerland by Prince Philip, Prince Bernhard, Sir Peter, Julian Huxley, and Edward Max Nicholson. All of these people were incredibly passionate and committed individuals who sought to secure the funding necessary to protect places and species that were threatened by human development.

The first three "national appeals" (now called national organizations) were also established in 1961 in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the United States. Since then, WWF-US has grown to include over 1 million supporters and has helped lead conservation projects in Alaska, the Northern Great Plains, and around the world!

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Why is this important to the history of the environment?

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Why is this important to the history of the environment?

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World Wildlife Fund's President and CEO, Carter Roberts said "Conservation endures as a living discipline because it is inhabited by a magnificent collection of people. Only by working together can we create solutions to the most vexing problems we face." Because of WWF, our whole world is so much closer to achieving the six goals that were mentioned before. For more than 60 years, WWF has worked to help people and nature thrive. As the world's leading conservation organization, WWF works in nearly 100 countries, making this program accessible to all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds. At every level, they collaborate with people around the world to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live, which has created an immense impact throughout the world for these past 60 years.

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Around the world, WWF supports community management of natural resources and helps them to protect those resources against outside threats. This collaborative conservation is grounded in the benefits nature provides to people and the role of Indigenous people and local communities as stewards of their own lands.

The WWF addressed the governance and empowered Indigenous people and local communities to have a meaningful seat at the table and benefit directly from conservation efforts. This collaborative conservation approach affirms and secures customary land and legal rights of local communities and Indigenous people.

Women and girls often play a central role in the use and management of natural resources, yet they are often excluded from participating in community decisions about how those resources should be used. WWF helps eliminate cultural, legal, and other barrier to full engagement, helping women and girls gain better access to education and economic decision-making opportunities so they can improve their lives and help lead environmental change in their communities.

With partners like CARE and USAID, WWF launches innovative conservation projects that merge conservation and human well-being, and are cornerstones of international development. Together, they work with communities to develop sustainable practices that translate to increased income, improved livelihoods, greater health, gender equity, and better managed and more accessible natural resources.

For its entire history, WWF has joined a group of conservation organizations at the forefront of efforts to incorporate human rights and needs into their work. The most important inhabitants of any forest, river basin, or seascape are its people, and the policies WWF has embraced are central to making sure that all people have access and opportunity to better their lives in the places that they work.

WWF's Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework is designed to ensure meaningful community engagement, which results in better conservation, and to identify and promptly address risks associated with their work.

In many of the places WWF works, people are directly reliant on nature for their health and economic well-being. By securing health services, supporting sustainable livelihoods and helping communities build their capacity to manage their needs and opportunities, WWF builds a foundation for conservation that helps both people and nature.

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WWF has an indirect impact on the world's economy. They are an NGO (Non Government Organization) meaning they are only funded by donors and individuals. When the people donate, WWF starts and follows through on projects that protect and free nature and environments from disasters. After people get involved they start to improve their relationship between themselves and their environment, which, in turn, improves the conditions, which then improves the economies. All of the environments around the world have a significant economic value. When people become invested in the conservation of these environments, they start to protect these places, which preserves the economic value, and, in turn, preserves the economy.

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WWF works to help local communities conserve the natural resources they depend upon; transform markets and policies toward sustainability; and protect and restore species and their habitats. Their efforts ensure that the value of nature is reflected in decision-making from a local to a global scale.

WWF connects cutting-edge conservation science with the collective power of their partners in the field, more than one million supporters in the United States and five million globally, as well as partnerships with communities, companies, and governments.

Today, human activities put more pressure on nature than ever before, but it’s also people who have the power to change this trajectory. Together, WWF believes that we can address the greatest threats to life on this planet and protect the natural resources that sustain and inspire us.

Recognizing that the problems facing our planet are increasingly more complex and urgent, WWF focuses its work on six ambitious goals. Through this integrative approach, we can challenge the planet’s greatest threats and ensure a healthy future for people and nature. These six goals include, creating a climate-resilient and zero-carbon world, rebuilding food systems to nourish people and nature, conserving the world's most important forests, protecting freshwater resources and landscapes, achieving healthy oceans and nature-positive seascapes, and conserving wildlife and wild places.

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How has this changed the way we see our environment and our responsibilities?

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How has this changed the way we see our environment and our responsibilities?

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WWF helps people around the world have an active impact on the environment. For hundreds of years, people have seen problems around the world that were not only impacting the environment, but were also impacting humans. WWF provides a solution for the people who want to do something about these issues. They lead movements for wildlife and biodiversity conservation, forests and sustainable land use, oceans and sustainable fishing, sustaining our food and freshwater systems, climate change, reducing plastic waste, and so much more.

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I believe that WWF is one of the most incredible foundations that have been created. They are passionate about protecting and preserving the world, which is incredibly important to me and my values as well.

World Wildlife Fund has been a huge part of my knowledge of the environment and my learning of the world, as well as my personal efforts. Since I was young, I have used WWF as a resource for my life and for my education of the world around me :)

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I feel very strongly about the World Wildlife Fund organization. It has played an important role in the way that I feel about the environment. I believe very strongly in the conservation and protection of animals and the environment. I believe that each individual plays a crucial role in the world, which is strongly backed up by the World Wildlife Fund's values and beliefs.

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What would I like to see done about this?

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What would I like to see done about this?

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I think that World Wildlife Fund is a beautiful organization that has so many innovative ideas that can have an incredible impact on the vast majority of the world if only people stand for what they believe in to protect the world and help support WWF's mission to carry those beliefs through with their conservation efforts.

Ways that YOU can help support WWF are:

-Donating

-Joining a campaign

-Learning and educating yourself and others

-Becoming a part of their team

-Joining a project

-Doing your own personal measures to help protect a part of the environment that is important to you.

-Adopt an animal

-Become a partner in conservation

-Give through a donor-advised fund

-Create a fundraiser

-Become a member

AND SO MUCH MORE! YOU HAVE AN IMPACT!

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WWF’s Wildlife Adaptation Innovation Fund supports the testing of new ideas that have the potential to reduce the vulnerability of wildlife due to changes in climate through projects. Lessons learned from these projects provide useful guidance that moves conservation beyond standard approaches. Successful efforts can be replicated or taken to scale to help wildlife endure even under conditions of rapid change.

"Projects piloted through this fund must meet the following criteria:

-Address climate vulnerability of one or more target species through interventions that directly support those species or help communities adapt to change and thus reduce pressure on target species.

-Be implemented in one year or less with plans to monitor results in the following years.

-Focus on on-the-ground project implementation of a project rather than research."

This idea portrays a wide range of ideas that can support the conservation efforts that pertain to our lives today.

An example of this project would be controlling the temperatures of the sand in the Choco regions of Columbia for sea turtles. The sex of a sea turtle is determined by the temperature of the sand in which the egg is incubated. The higher temperatures result in more female sea turtles, which, with the increasing temperatures, due to global warming, ends up bringing the mortality rates up due to almost entirely female populations.

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I feel very strongly about World Wildlife Fund because it has been such a huge part of my journey with my environmental values. I understand that there are many people who view WWF in a negative or unimportant way, however I believe that their work has created a huge change in the preservation of the environment, which in my mind, is something to be commended.

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As we were approaching the 60s, scientists were seeing the populations of animals decline at a rapid amount that started to become concerning. This is the idea that the founders needed to start the program of WWF.

Now, we are seeing a rapid increase of animals dying out, environments being destroyed and our climate becoming worse and worse. WWF is a foundation that has, over the years, become committed to supporting the preservation of our world.