Who are the WWF?

WWF is an organisation focused on saving species and landscapes and larger global issues.

 

 

Summarise their History.

On 29th April 1961 WWF, the World Wildlife Fund, was founded, and was set up in September in the town of Morges, Switzerland. WWF was the first global green organisation. In September, a department carrying out the administrative work was established in Switzerland. Afters this, national WWF offices were gradually set up across the world, with the first being in the UK in November 1961.

The focus of WWF's work had, by the end of the 1970s, broadened. WWF now focuses now on not only the conservation of wildlife and habitats, but also on the human race's impact on the environment.

Finally, in 1980, the World Conservation Strategy

 

 

Who is this man and what is his role in the organisation?

His name is Carter Roberts and he is the CEO of WWF.

 

 

Where do they work?

WWF works in many places across the world, focusing in:

Asia:

- Amur - Heilong

- Borneo and Sumatra

- Coral Triangle

- Eastern Himalayas

- Greater Mekong

- Yangtze

Africa:

- Coastal East Africa

- Congo Basin

- Madagascar

- Namibia

South America:

- Amazon

- Southern Chile

- The Galapagos

North America:

- Arctic

- Chihuahuan Desert

- Gulf of California

- Mesoamerican Reef

- Northern Great Plains

 

Describe what the ‘Adopt an Animal’ project is about.

In the 'Adopt an Animal' project, the customer will choose to pay money to symbolically adopt an endangered animal. This symbolic adoption supports WWF's global efforts to protect wild animals and their habitats.

 

 

Find your Inner Animal. Take the quiz and record the result. Use you school email address.

YOUR INNER ANIMAL IS A
BARN OWL
You love the nightlife but not necessarily the company of others. Rather, you enjoy being alone in the crisp night air, listening and watching, keen observer that you are. Your careful, measured movements provide a big payoff.

 

 

Pick a place the WWF describe on their website and write a summary.

The Amazon is a vast region that spans across eight rapidly developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. This vast landscape contains:

- 1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet's remaining tropical forests

- 4,100 miles of  rivers

- 2.6 million square miles in the Amazon basin, about 40 percent of South America

 

 

Pick a species the WWF describe on their website and write a summary.

 

Vaquita's are known to be the world's most rare marine mammal, only being discovered in 1958. Vaquitas often drown due to illegal fishing operations in Mexico's Gulf of California. Over half the Vaquita population has been culled in the last three years alone. Vaquita's are very similar to dolphins. They are usually found in the Gulf's shallow waters.

 

 

Read one of the research papers on climate change and dot point the paper.

http://www.wwf.org.au/our_work/people_and_the_environment/glo

- Greenhouse gas pollution is making the planet heat up at faster rate than ever

- Oceans are becoming more acidic

- Hotter days, more severe storms, floods, snowfalls, droughts, fire and higher sea levels are expected if global warming continues

- Jobs, agriculture, water supplies, industries, human lives, survival of species and ecosystems threatened

- Temperature rises could result in 25% of the Earth’s animals and plants disappearing due to not adapting fast enough

- Recent temperature rises and ocean acidification due to human activities like burning coal and oil, and clearing forests.

- WWF aims to limit global warming to 1.5° to avoid the worst social, economic, health and environmental impacts.

- Australia is the highest per person greenhouse gas polluter among all developed countries

- We are the 15th highest overall polluter and our emissions are still rising.

- Australia has the resources to shift to a clean economy that produces less pollution, more jobs, healthy children and a safer planet for our wildlife.

 

 

Umky Patrol

For several years polar bears have been coming into towns in Russia’s North-East and posing a threat to the people and to themselves. The Umky Control also known as the Polar Bear Control is a group of people that watch for polar bears coming into this region and use long sticks to drive the bears away. Since 2000 three people have been killed because of these polar bears. A local biologist believes the polar bears are drifting into these villages because global warming has shrunk their normal ice habitat. The Umky Control are now monitoring and protecting Walrus’s. These animals also live on ice so that they can dive into the water to catch their food. Also because of global warming, Walruses ice habitat has shrunk causing the species to move to land.