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Conservation organisations:
WWF (world wildlife fund):
What the WWF is:
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The world’s leading independent conservation organisation
A truly global network, working in more than 100 countries
A challenging, constructive, science-based organisation that addresses issues from
the survival of species and habitats to climate change, sustainable business and
environmental education
Creating solutions to the most important environmental challenges facing the planet
so people and nature can thrive
An organisation that makes a difference
It employs around 6,200 full time staff
Values the support of more than 5 million people
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5 billion in
more than 13,000 projects
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Goals and strategies of the WWF:
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By 2020, WWF will conserve many of the world’s most ecologically important regions
by working in partnership with others to:
Protect and restore species and their habitats
Strengthen local communities' ability to conserve the natural resources they depend
upon
Transform markets and policies to reduce the impact of the production and
consumption of commodities
Ensure that the value of nature is reflected in decisions made by individuals,
communities, governments and businesses
Mobilize hundreds of millions of people to support conservation

Who WWF work with:
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In carrying out its work, WWF cooperates with many partners, including UN
organizations, IUCN, and development agencies such as USAID and the World Bank
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Examples of partnerships co-managed by WWF international include:

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Avon
FISA - the World Rowing Federation
H&M
HSBC
IKEA
Mimex Brands & Labels
Mondi Group
Nokia Corporation
Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Team Garmin-Sharp
The Coca-Cola Company

84 % of WWF's spending is directed to worldwide conservation activities
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Achievements:

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World Land Trust (WLT) pioneered the Buy an Acre concept of buying land for
conservation, starting in 1989, and has, since then, funded ground-breaking habitat
protection for over 20 years, with an impressive track record of achievements
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Saving real acres in real places
Creating Corridors
Empowering local partners
Influencing Governments
Tackling climate change; Tree Planting, Carbon Balanced + REDD+ Development
Creating a network of knowledge; Symposia to share experience and skills, Training
for REDD+ projects + Books for Conservation
Producing educational resources
Training conservationists for the future

Saving real acres in real places
WLT was initially founded to raise funds to purchase acres of threatened tropical forest in
Belize, Central America for a project called Programme for Belize
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This means donors can save whole acres of threatened habitat,
enabling overseas partner organisations to create protected wildlife reserves
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Creating Corridors
In areas where land is more expensive, the WLT has been extremely successful in funding
smaller, strategic land purchases to create vital wildlife corridors
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Connecting
fragmented wildlife reserves can increases a species' gene pool and chance of continued
survival
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Critically, these
projects protect people as well as wildlife, by decreasing human-animal conflict
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We believe it is
essential to use the expertise and knowledge of local organisations rather than to manage
projects from the UK
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When saving habitats and wildlife, buying land is just the beginning; the reserves must then
be managed and protected from on-going threats, such as illegal hunting and deforestation
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These rangers
carry out a wide range of duties beyond protecting the reserves which include running
education programmes and raising environmental awareness in local communities
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Support
from international funders such as WLT has a powerful leverage effect as was recently seen
in India
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Our influence on governments can also be seen in Paraguay; in 2008 WLT signed a sharedmanagement agreement with our partner organisation, Guyra Paraguay, and the Ministry of
the Environment in Paraguay
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5 million acres, a big step towards saving the Dry Chaco in a country that is seeing largescale deforestation
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In 2005, we developed the Carbon Balanced Programme to encourage
individuals and small to medium sized businesses to offset their unavoidable carbon
emissions
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REDD+ development: WLT’s first REDD+ project is helping to protect vast areas of highly
threatened habitat in Paraguay
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WLT is committed to the fight
against dangerous climate change and believes that well-designed REDD+ projects can play
a fundamental role in achieving this
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The first focused on ‘Land
Purchase as an Intervention Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation’ (a publication based on

the symposia can be viewed online) and in 2008 the topic discussed was 'Reaching Financial
Stability of Protected Areas’
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This provided an opportunity for a number of our corporate and individual donors and
partner representatives to discuss their respective expectations of each other in order to
improve donor- partner relationships
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Training for REDD+ projects: In 2010 the WLT worked in collaboration with IUCN-NL to
develop a REDD+ training programme for African NGOs
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Our training programme is an
example of the capacity building that will be needed if REDD+ is to become a successful
global tool for conservation
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Books for Conservation: WLT works in partnership with the Natural History Book Service
(NHBS), providing free books to organisations that lack resources or do not have access to
conservation libraries, through the NGO Books for Conservation programme
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Producing educational resources:
WLT’s education programme has produced a series of curriculum-based resources for
teachers, students and parents
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The website, which is also available in a printed pack, was awarded "5 star rating for
educational usefulness" by Schoolzone and received the "Topmarks Excellent Site Award" by
Topmarks Education
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Training conservationists for the future:
WLT’s internship programme is a continuing success story
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We have also worked
in collaboration with the University of East Anglia (UEA) on the Graduate Diploma course in
Conservation and Project Administration, running from 2005 to 2010
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The WLT and UEA continue to work closely together, planning innovative
projects to support the conservationists of the future

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