Founder: Dr. peter scott Guy Mountford, edward herrmann, Sir Julian Sorell Huxley.
Type: charitable trust
Established:1961September 1 1 day.
Headquarters: Switzerland, principal: Dr. Claudie Martin of edward herman.
Chairman of the Foundation: Imika Anyaoku
Service scope: global
Goal: environmental protection
Methods: Lobbying, researching and providing solutions.
Number of volunteers: about 4,500.
Slogan: For a living planet.
Founded in 196 1 and headquartered in Switzerland. At present, WWF works in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa through a global network consisting of 27 national members, 265,438+0 project offices and 5 affiliated member organizations. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest independent non-governmental environmental protection organizations in the world, with nearly 5 million supporters and active in more than 90 countries.
WWF is the largest and most experienced independent non-governmental environmental protection agency in the world. It has 5.2 million supporters all over the world and active networks in more than 100 countries. Since the establishment of 196 1, WWF has initiated or completed about 12000 environmental protection projects in six continents 153 countries. At present, WWF works in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa through a global network consisting of 27 national members, 265,438+0 project offices and 5 affiliated member organizations. WWF's work in China began with 1980, the protection of giant pandas and their habitats. It is the first international NGO invited by the China government to carry out protection work in China. From 65438 to 0996, WWF officially established its Beijing office, and since then, it has set up offices in eight cities across the country. Up to now, * * * has more than 80 employees, and its project areas have also expanded from panda protection to species protection, protection and sustainable utilization of freshwater and marine ecosystems, forest protection and sustainable management, sustainable development education, climate change and energy, wildlife trade, scientific development and international policies. The mission of WWF is to stop the deterioration of the natural environment of the earth and create a bright future in which human beings live in harmony with nature.
WWF is committed to:
Protecting the world's biodiversity;
Ensure the sustainable utilization of renewable natural resources;
Promote actions to reduce pollution and wasteful consumption. The logo theme of WWF is a giant panda. In fact, this lovely giant panda has a real prototype named Jiji, which was a female panda exchanged by Austrian animal dealer Heini Dehmel for three giraffes, two rhinos, hippopotamus and zebra at 1958, and later lived in London Zoo.
The establishment of WWF coincided with Xixi's visit to London Zoo. WWF recognizes that an influential organization logo can overcome all language barriers. So they agreed to use the image of the giant panda as the symbol of the organization. Since then, the giant panda has become an idol symbol of the global nature conservation movement.