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The WWF has worked to protect nature in over 100 countries for over 45 years using science-based conservation efforts. Their mission is to preserve biodiversity and ecological systems by protecting species and natural areas, promoting sustainable resource use, and reducing pollution. Their goal is to conserve 19 of the world's most important natural places and change markets to protect nature by 2020, focusing on places with high biodiversity that face threats but can be impacted in the next decade, such as the Amazon and coral reefs.

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The WWF has worked to protect nature in over 100 countries for over 45 years using science-based conservation efforts. Their mission is to preserve biodiversity and ecological systems by protecting species and natural areas, promoting sustainable resource use, and reducing pollution. Their goal is to conserve 19 of the world's most important natural places and change markets to protect nature by 2020, focusing on places with high biodiversity that face threats but can be impacted in the next decade, such as the Amazon and coral reefs.

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By Joanna Booker.

What Do The WWF Do?


• For more than 45 years, WWF has been
protecting the future of nature.
• They work in over 100 countries.
• WWF's unique way of working combines global
reach with a foundation in science, involves
action at every level from local to global, and
ensures the delivery of innovative solutions that
meet the needs of both people and nature.
What Is Their Mission?
• WWF's mission is the conservation of nature. They use
the best available scientific knowledge and advancing
that knowledge where they can, they work to preserve
the diversity of life on Earth and the health of
ecological systems by
– protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and
animals, including endangered species;
– promoting sustainable approaches to the use of renewable
natural resources; and
– promoting more efficient use of resources and energy and
the maximum reduction of pollution. 
Their Goal
• “By 2020 WWF will conserve 19 of the world's
most important natural places and
significantly change global markets to protect
the future of nature.”
The “19 Priority Places”
• Their focus is on 19 places that are of the highest priority, based
on the wealth and diversity of life they support, the destructive
challenges they face, and the ability to impact them within the
next decade.
• Some of these places include the world's largest and most intact
tropical rain forests, the most diverse freshwater systems, the
most varied coral reefs, the most biologically significant deserts,
and the most productive fishing grounds. These places are;
Amazon, Amur-Heilong, Arctic, Borneo and Sumatra,
Chihuahuan Desert, Coastal East Africa, Congo Basin, Coral Triangle,
Eastern Himalayas, Galapagos, Gulf of California, Madagascar, Mekong,
Mesoamerican Reef, Namibia, Northern Great Plains, U.S. Southeast
Rivers and Streams, Southern Chile and Yangtze.

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