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  2. World Wide Fund for Nature - Wikipedia

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    It originally worked by fundraising and providing grants to existing non-governmental organizations with an initial focus on the protection of endangered species. As more resources became available, its operations expanded into other areas such as the preservation of biological diversity , sustainable use of natural resources , the reduction of ...

  3. List of nature conservation organizations - Wikipedia

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    Center for Biological Diversity - protecting endangered species through legal action, petitions, media and activism; Conservation International - secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity; Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - mission to save species from extinction

  4. International Union for Conservation of Nature - Wikipedia

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    Species Survival Commission (SSC): technical aspects of species conservation and action for species that are threatened with extinction. Specialist groups of the SSC prepare endangered species recovery plans known as Species Action Plans, which are used to outline the conservation strategies of species. [27]

  5. Meet the People Who Have Removed 83,000 Snares from Wildlife ...

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    Enter the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN), a non-profit organization that protects endangered species by supporting conservation entrepreneurs and strategies to help people and wildlife coexist.

  6. The Nature Conservancy - Wikipedia

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    They brokered the protection of 370,000 acres (1,500 km 2) of tropical forest in Calakmul. [11] In another program, TNC is working to protect wildlife habitat in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In 2007, the Nature Conservancy made a 161,000-acre (650 km 2 ) purchase of New York forestland from Finch Paper Holdings LLC for $110 million, its ...

  7. The Endangered Species Act, and what it protects, may be in ...

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    More than 1,600 species are listed as endangered or threatened under the law, which prohibits harming them or destroying their habitat.

  8. Wildlife Conservation Network - Wikipedia

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    All eight species of pangolins are dangerously close to extinction. To prevent pangolins from vanishing, WCN and Save Pangolins created the Pangolin Crisis Fund (PCF) in 2019 to protect pangolins and their habitats, help combat illegal wildlife traffickers, and reduce the demand for pangolin products in Asia and Africa.

  9. A New Law Protects Two Beloved Species From Being Held in ...

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    Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee may be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act after a recommendation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This social parasite is native to 15 ...