The results are in! Out of the British Red Cross, WWF and Oxfam, you voted for WWF to receive our donation of £10,000. Thanks to everyone who participated in support of their favourite cause.
WWF are now giving you the chance to decide which of their projects you are most passionate about. Below, you can read a bit more from WWF about the ways in which it safeguards the natural world, then, return to our and vote for how the £10,000 could be used:
a) Tackling Climate Change
b) Promoting forest conservation
c) Safeguarding endangered species
Voting closes 23.59GMT Sunday 24th July 2011
Tackling Climate Change
Climate change is a big issue for WWF because it affects everything we do. A warming planet alters weather patterns and water supplies, seasonal growth for plants and ways of life for people and wildlife. Thats why WWF is taking urgent, positive action to limit climate change through campaigns and help people who are most vulnerable to the inevitable future impacts to cope and adapt.
Promoting Forest Conservation
Forests contain as much as 90% of the worlds terrestrial animal and plant life and provide raw materials for food, shelter and fuel, essential for the 1.2 billion people who live in extreme poverty around the world. WWF promotes forest conservation, implements credible certification and sustainable forest management, and tackles illegal logging and trade. We also support forest conservation field programmes in the Amazon basin, Atlantic forest, Borneo, Colombia, the coastal forests of east Africa, the eastern Himalayas, and New Guinea.
Safeguarding Endangered Species
With nearly a quarter of all mammal species and a third of amphibians threatened with extinction, there’s an urgent need to safeguard wildlife and the places in which they live. The growing and unsustainable demand by people for natural resources is at the heart of the problem. We work to stabilise or increase numbers of species from the giant panda to the Iberian lynx through practical conservation programmes and by challenging the trade in endangered wildlife.
Vote now!
WWF is one of the worlds largest independent conservation organisations, with more than five million supporters and a global network active in more than one hundred countries. Were working to create solutions to the most serious environmental issues facing our planet, so that people and nature can thrive. Through our engagement with the public, businesses and government, we focus on safeguarding the natural world, tacking climate change and changing the way we live.
In 2011, WWFs 50th anniversary year, we are celebrating what we have achieved so far together, and are positive about tackling the challenges of the future. Find out more about our work, past and present at www.wwf.org.uk
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