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WWF International
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international non-governmental environmental organization
WWF International is a global environmental organization that works to protect wildlife and natural spaces around the world. It matters because it addresses large-scale environmental challenges that affect ecosystems and species across national borders.
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- Instance of
- non-governmental organization
- Official name
- World Wide Fund for Nature
- Award
- Peabody Awards
- Field of work
- conservation
- Country
- Switzerland
- Founded by
- Guy Mountfort
- Headquarters
- Morges
- Chairperson
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
- Employees
- 12000
- Revenue
- 457102976
- Official website
- wwf.panda.org
- Image
- WWF Schweiz, Zürich Office (Ank Kumar, Infosys Limited) 01.jpg
- Motto
- Building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
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- native label
- World Wide Fund for Nature
- Commons gallery
- World Wide Fund For Nature
- Commons category
- World Wide Fund For Nature
- inception
- 1961-04-29
- topic's main category
- Category:World Wide Fund for Nature
- member of
- European Environmental Bureau
- location of formation
- New York
- operating area
- Internationality
- number of volunteers
- 200000
- has works in the collection
- National Museum of World Cultures
- different from
- WWE
- official observer status in organization
- SPRFMO
- social media followers
- 187000
- funder
- Open Society Foundations
- short name
- WWF
- official donation page URL
- wwfdonate.panda.org/support_wwf
- privacy policy URL
- wwf.panda.org/es/privacidad
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Encyclopedic overview
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment. The official name of the Swiss umbrella organization and in some countries is World Wide Fund for Nature following a renaming, while World Wildlife Fund remains the official name in other countries including Canada and the United States. WWF is the world's largest conservation organization, with over 5 million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries and supporting around 3,000 conservation and environmental projects. It has invested over $1 billion in more than 12,000 conservation initiatives since 1995. WWF is a foundation with 65% of funding from individuals and bequests including The 1001: A Nature Trust, 17% from government sources (such as the World Bank, Foreign Office, and USAID) and 8% from corporations in 2020.
WWF aims to "stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature." Living Planet Report has been published every two years by WWF since 1998; it is based on a Living Planet Index and ecological footprint calculation. In addition, WWF has launched several notable worldwide campaigns, including Earth Hour and the debt-for-nature swap, and its current work is organized around these six areas: food, climate, freshwater, wildlife, forests, and oceans.
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