The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the world's largest non-governmental organizations for the protection of nature. The former name of this fund is World Wildlife Fund or World Wildlife Fund.
The World Wildlife Fund was established on September 11, 1961, in Switzerland, with the original name World Wildlife Fund. In its first year, WWF had branches in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and then expanded to branches in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa. Today, WWF has branches in 59 countries around the world. In 1986, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, and because of its expansion, WWF decided to change its name to World Wide Fund For Nature (except for the United States and Canada, which kept the old name).
The WWF logo is a sketch of a giant panda named Chi Chi who was living at the London Zoo at the time of WWF's founding.
Purpose and activities
WWF works to reduce the destruction and destruction of nature caused by humans globally, building an environment in which people protect, care for, and live in harmony with nature.
WWF sets out the following goals:
Conserve the world's biodiversity.
Ensure the use of renewable natural resources is maintained.
Promote the reduction of environmental pollution and wasteful consumption.
WWF's mission is to "protect animals, plants, forests, landscapes, water resources, land, and natural resources through the use and governance of geographical areas," the Instituting Document states. Grants will be spent on scientific research and education of the masses, mass communication, regulation, coordination of efforts and association of interest groups". In terms of operational goals, WWF is different from other environmental protection organizations in that WWF focuses on lobbying, linking with commercial companies to finance long-term projects to protect the environment. protect the ecosystem, instead of creating short-term publicity and mass media campaigns. During its operation, WWF has expanded its scope of activities to become a mass nature protection organization, in particular, WWF focuses on preventing and reducing the expansion of the greenhouse effect causing environmental damage. global warming, establish permanent and long-term conservators of threatened plant and animal species, instead of just targeting wildlife as the initial goal. Since 1961, WWF has funded approximately 12,000 projects in 153 countries to convert one and a half million square kilometers into national parks.
Around the world, there are about 4000 employees of over 100 countries operating in about 300 protected geographical areas. In 2006, more than 5 million people around the world gave financial support, with donations amounting to over 374 million Euros, used to protect nature. As a result, in 2006, 2000 projects to protect nature and the environment were implemented.
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