Lawrence Linden Former Board Chair. Daaiyah Bilal-Threats Former Staffer. Child Organizations. Coalition Memberships. Donor Organizations. Donation Recipients. Total contributions Program service revenue Investment income Comp. These are separate legal entities that are responsible to their own boards and accountable to their donors. They give up to two-thirds of the funds they raise to the international secretariat at WWF International and keep the remainder to spend on whichever conservation projects they choose.
All offices, however, carry out local conservation work such as practical field projects, scientific research, advising governments on environmental policy, promoting environmental education, and raising awareness of environmental issues. Interest from the trust fund helps WWF International to meet its administration costs.
In total, contributions from individuals remain the organization's most important source of funds, making up approximately half of its annual income. Governments and aid agencies provide 20 percent of WWF's income, while 16 percent comes from trusts and legacies and 17 percent comes from other sources, including donations from corporations and royalties on merchandise. Here are a few examples of the impressive work WWF has done:.
The Seas Must Live - Launched in , WWF set up marine sanctuaries for whales , dolphins, and seals, and to protect marine turtle nesting sites. Currently, WWF is working around the world to save our seas and marine life by building up political will to end chronic overfishing, reducing the use of destructive fishing methods, rebuilding devastated fisheries, and improving resource management. Thanks to the efforts of WWF, the number of rhinoceroses in Kaziranga National Park, India, rose from in to 1, in ; in Chitwan Park, Nepal, from 60 in the late s to today; and in southern Africa, from 20 at the turn of the last century to nearly 8, today.
The strategy defined the three chief goals of conservation: maintenance of essential ecological processes and life support systems; preservation of genetic diversity; and sustainable use of species and ecosystems. Since the launch, 50 countries have formulated and initiated their own conservation strategies based on WWF's recommendations. Click here to found out how you can obtain a copy of WWF's strategy series. TDPs recommend such strategies as the formation of partnerships, involvement in politics, or campaigning to the public.
At the same time, WWF has identified a list of priority ecoregions known as the Global Ecoregions , constituting the most valuable and sometimes vulnerable areas of the world in terms of breadth of biodiversity and ecological processes.
WWF is carrying out conservation efforts on a selected subset of the Global and encourages others to take up the challenges of conserving the rest of the Global ecoregions. It may seem daunting, but there's a lot you can do to help save our natural resources if you're interested. Choose monthly donation Prefer a one-off donation?
Choose one-off donation Prefer a monthly donation? How we use our funding. Today over , Canadians use our website as a go-to source for information on Canadian charities reading over 1. World Wildlife Fund. Operating Charity. Updated on June 24, by Sydney Olexa. Financial Review. Salary Information Full-time staff: Avg. This year, the first cohort of 19 students earned their Living Planet Leader certification , which will support their efforts to create change in their future careers by demonstrating their sustainability skills and experience to potential employers..
In the long-term, this will help improve community resilience to climate change. Supported Katzie First Nation in efforts to recover an important historic and cultural food source: chinook salmon. We continued our partnership with Katzie First Nation to restore four salmon spawning sites in B.
This supported rescue and rehab for affected wildlife as well as habitat recovery and future-proofing the country. Promoted solutions and recommendations to improve Canadian wildlife recovery efforts by releasing Living Planet Report Canada on the state of wildlife in Canada. Charity Contact Website: www. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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