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It was formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in 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. [ 6 ]
The WWF's name remains World Wildlife Fund in Canada and the United States, but it is known as World Wide Fund for Nature around the world. The organization works to protect Canada's endangered species, promote sustainable ocean and fresh water management, and develop strategies for renewable energy development. [3]
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment. [42] It was formerly named the "World Wildlife Fund", which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. [42]
In 1980, IUCN and WWF moved into shared new offices in Gland, Switzerland. This marked a phase of closer cooperation with WWF, but the close ties between IUCN and WWF were severed in 1985 when WWF decided to take control of its own field projects, which so far had been run by IUCN.
Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy has over one million members globally as of 2021 and has protected more than 119 million acres (48 million ha) of land in its history. [5] As of 2014, [update] it is the largest environmental non-profit organization by assets and revenue in the Americas.
WWF fans started to reject his character and push from the company. [79] He defeated Bret Hart by disqualification in a title defense on the March 31 episode of Raw is War . [ 80 ] Behind the scenes, Hart mentored Johnson for his first year in WWF [ 81 ] and refused to be booked to take the title from him. [ 82 ]
The World Wide Fund for Nature (previously the World Wildlife Fund), is an international environmental organization Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (), the global conservation organization, as priorities for conservation.According to WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species dynamics, and environmental conditions".