World Wildlife Fund

1. World Wildlife Fund Kim Truong & DivyataLuthra

2. Vision “WWF's vision is to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature.”

3. Mission “WWF’s mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.”

4. History • In 1960, Sir Julian Huxley went to East Africa to advise UNESCO on the wildlife conservation • He wrote three articles on his findings, warning the public of the destruction of habitat and rapid decrease of the wildlife

5. Victor Stolan pinpointed a need to create an international organization to raise funds for conservation • Huxley gathered a group of concerned and passionate professionals • They produced and signed a declaration known as the Morges Manifesto

7. Major Activities • Arctic Seas • Amazon • Mediterranean • Coral Triangle

8. Arctic Seas • Largest and least destroyed of the inhabited regions on Earth. • Domain for the habitat of polar bears ,ringed seal, caribou, arctic fox, beluga whale narwhal, sea eagle and snowy owl. • Home to indigenous peoples, who have adapted to the world’s harshest environment.

9. Problems? • Climate Change • Pollution and industrial development • Over hunting

10. Climate Change and Impacts on the Arctic • The Arctic is extremely exposed to climate change, major physical, ecological and economic impacts are expected to appear rapidly. • Arctic indigenous communities are already noticing some of these change such as warmer winters, earlier break-up of ice in the spring, etc. This TEK (traditional ecological knowledge) supports scientific evidence. • Some of the shrinking glaciers are due to natural cycles, however, scientists now believe that human influences will cause further temperature rises. Canadian Arctic First Nations Leader, Fred Sangrias

11. Slight changes in the temperature can bring average temperatures above freezing points. • Glaciers, sea ice and tundra will melt, contributing to global sea level rises. • Polar bears could become extinct by the end of this century if there is an almost complete loss of summer sea ice cover. • The area of the Greenland Ice Sheet that experiences some melting has increased by about 16% from 1979 to 2002. A vast area of fjords and tundra, jagged peaks and frozen seas, glaciers and icebergs, and ice and snow, the Arctic is one of the planet's last pristine regions. But for how much longer?

12. What is WWF doing? • Policies and actions to combat climate change can be stimulated through the WWF’s International Arctic Programme. • Persuades governments to go over and above existing commitments for arctic environmental protection. • Aims to reduce or eliminate direct threats to biodiversity from oil and gas development • Works with fishermen to protect of the world’s richest and most productive remaining fisheries from illegal fishing. • Protects key arctic species and habitats.

13. WWF Arctic Programme in Copenhagen

14. Amazon • The Amazon Biome (twice the size of India) is virtually inimitable in scale, complexity, and truly is a region distinguished by superlatives. • The Amazon encompasses the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, as well as endangered flora and fauna, and its rivers accounts for 15-16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans. • Is home to more than 30 million people living across a vast region. • Its population is still made up of indigenous people – 350 different ethnic groups, more than 60 of which still remain largely isolated.

15. The Amazon is home to more than 30 million people living across a vast region. • Amazon’s population is still made up of indigenous people – 350 different ethnic groups.

16. Problems? • Forests Burn, Soils lessen and people suffer: • Market forces, population pressure and infrastructure advances are continuing to pry open the Amazon’s rainforest. • As the pressures inflicting the region grow in intensity, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price to be paid is not only loss of biodiversity and habitat – but also of a decreasing life quality for people. • Today, regional government programmes and initiatives are pushing for constant development, often encouraging blind clearance of forests for cattle ranching, oil drilling or soybean production. • Deforestation

17. Deforestation and Impacts on the Amazon • Deforestation is mainly marked in areas nearing urban centers, roads and rivers. However, even remote areas that show no human activity are showing signs of human pressures. • Some deforestation can be legal in private properties. According to the Brazilian Forestry Code ( a federal law), 20% of rainforest in each property can be cleared under a license provided by environmental agencies. • Loss of Biodiversity: Species lose their habitat, or can no longer live in the small fragments of forests that are left. • Due to a high degree of regionalism, species that are only found within a specific geographical range, even localized deforestation can result in loss of species.

18. Habitat Degradation: Building new highways are causing a widespread fragmentation of rainforests. These disintegrated landscapes are affected in species structure, composition and microclimate and are more exposed to droughts and fires. • Modified global climate: The forests’ ability to absorb the pollutant carbon dioxide (CO2) is reduced. At the same time, there is an increased presence of CO2 released from the burning trees. • Loss of water cycling: Deforestation reduces the critical water cycling services provided by trees. When rainfall reduction is added to the natural variability that characterizes rainfall in the region, the resulting droughts may lead to major environmental impacts. Fires already occur in areas disturbed by logging. • Social impacts: With reduced forests, people are less able to benefit from the natural resources these ecosystems provide. This can lead to increased poverty and in cases, people may need to move in order to find forests which can sustain them.

20. What is WWF doing? • WWF has been involved in the Amazon for 40 years. • WWF work in the Amazon includes participation in the creation of a number of important protected areas including Peru’s Manu National Park in 1973. • WWF has developed relationships with local, state and national governments in every country where they work, and has also invested resources, time and energy into partnerships with local NGOs, civil society groups and the private sector. • Although WWF’s presence in the region has been key to many conservation results over the years, it is with the voicing of the Living Amazon Initiative in 2008 that WWF has been able to bring together 40 years of experience.

21. Mediterranean • The name Mediterranean is derived from the Latin mediterraneanus, meaning "inland" or "in the middle of the earth". • This area stretches from west to east- from the Iberian Peninsula to the Middle East – and from southern Europe to northern Africa. • It comprises of diverse cultures, beautiful coastlines and deep blue waters.

22. Problems? • Forests • Freshwater • Blue fin Tuna

23. Freshwater • Trillions of litres of fresh water flows throughout the Mediterranean. • Each drop starts from a source and contributes to underground streams, mountain lakes, coastal lagoons, and closed basins of the Mediterranean freshwater ecosystem. Rivers- Neretva and Trebisnjica (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Lake Skadar- Montegro

24. That same drop is responsible for supporting hundreds of thousands of people along its waterways, millions of birds, and the many endemic fish species in the area. • But right now a large percentage of the freshwater systems in the Mediterranean are either destroyed or threatened by inadequate water management. Les Guerbes- Algeria

25. What is WWF doing? • To protect the future of the local people and the environment they live in, WWF aims to: • protect important sites, • promote and support integrated river basin management, • support the improvement of water policies and management, • enable the civil society to influence decision making processes, • decrease the damage caused by existing infrastructures, • promote sustainable hydropower planning and construction • Created in 2003, the WWF Mediterranean Freshwater Programme is focusing its initial work on sites in two geographic priorities: the Balkan rivers and streams of Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia).

26. Coral Triangle • The Coral Triangle, the global centre of marine biodiversity, is a 6 million km2area. • Within this nursery of the seaslives 76% of the world’s coral species, 6 of the world’s 7 marine turtle species, at least 2,228 reef fish species, and cetaceans (whales, dolphins, etc). • The Coral Triangle is defined by marine zones containing at least 500 species of reef-building coral—the darkest area that is roughly triangular in shape shown in the map below.

28. This isn’t just a problem for marine biodiversity—human populations are also at risk. • An estimated 120 million people live within the Coral Triangle, of which approximately 2.25 million are fishers depend on healthy seas to make a living.

29. Problems? • Coral reefs fading, crumbling • Climate Change • Reef fish declining • More tuna landed

30. Coral reefs fading, crumbling • With a growing population and persistent poverty across Southeast Asia, corals reefs are being over-exploited through increased fishing pressure, and highly damaging techniques such as blast and poison fishing. • As deforestation continues across the region, sediment run-off flows to coastal areas where it chokes reefs.

31. What is WWF doing? • Expanding from their presence in the Coral Triangle’s ecoregions,they are focusing on several areas where they can achieve significant results: • Support improved governance of the Coral Triangle. • Promote sustainable tuna fisheries. • Finance marine protected area for the future. • Create an international marine protected area network for turtles bycatch in the Indo-Pacific region . • Reduce the impacts of climate change and tourism.

32. Success Stories • Halting the decline of the panda • India’s Panna Tiger Reserve makes a comeback

33. Halting the decline of the panda • Pandas are classified as endangered animals • WWF has been working with the Chinese government in the Qinling and Minshan Mountains to maintain and increase panda populations

34. Panda populations have increased by 40% since the 1980s. • Panda habitat has increased by new reserves and green space

35. Poaching and illegal logging has significantly decreased • Community initiatives that promote peaceful coexistent with pandas and humans has been very positive.

36. India’s Panna Tiger Reserve makes a comeback • Tigers are classified as endangered animals • In 1998, the reserve boasted 21 tigers • In 2009, the reserve lost all of its tigers to poachers

37. WWF and the Indian government put together protective and remedial actions to make Panna safe for tigers • Translocated a male and female tiger into the reserve

38. WWF lent technical support by providing radio collars and surveillance systems to monitor and track the tigers • By June 2010, three tiger cubs were born

40. Careers Sustainable Transportation Manager • 2-5 years of experience in urban transportation • High degree of business intelligence • Strong interpersonal skills • Strong management skills

41. Financial Analyst • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance • Minimum of 5 years of experience • Strong analytical skills

42. Volunteer • Within the country • National Ambassador – promote events • Event Assistants – Annual Canada Life CN Tower Climb for WWF-Canada • In-House – fundraising, administrative tasks

43. Outside of the country • Help out with the environmental issues • Brazil, India, Madagascar, Paraguay, Peru, etc. • Approximate cost: 3700USD

44. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

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