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The 1001: A Nature Trust, the contributors to which are sometimes referred to as the 1001 Club, is a financial endowment that helps fund the World Wide Fund for Nature.It was established in 1970 by the then-head of the WWF, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, with help from Anton Rupert, a South African entrepreneur.
National Wildlife Federation - conservation education and advocacy for Northern American Wildlife; Nature Conservancy of Canada - help protect Canada's most important lands, waters and wildlife; Open Space Institute - conservation organisation and think tank in the Eastern United States; Pheasants Forever - conserving wildlife habitat suitable ...
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 five million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries and supporting around 3,000 conservation and environmental projects. [ 6 ]
Since the late 1980s, organizations such as Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Wildlife Fund have participated in international debt-for-nature swaps. The NGO transfers the debt title to the debtor country, and in exchange the country agrees to either enact certain environmental policies or endow a government bond ...
The Endangered Wildlife Trust. The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit South African conservation organisation. Founded in 1973, the EWT has an expanding footprint throughout southern and East Africa, focusing on the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems.
Terrestrial ecoregions of the world. This is a list of terrestrial ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The WWF identifies terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions. The terrestrial scheme divides the Earth's land surface into 8 biogeographic realms, containing 867 smaller ecoregions.
The Cheetah Preservation Foundation is a conservation organisation set up in South Africa in 1993 with special dedication to the protection of the vulnerable South African cheetah. It is one of the largest wildlife organisations in Africa .
The World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report 2022 found that wildlife populations declined by an average 69% since 1970. [1] [2] [3]The Living Planet Index (LPI) is an indicator of the state of global biological diversity, based on trends in vertebrate populations of species from around the world.