Keep the World Wild
Our new initiative is highlighting the plight of many of our most threatened species and habitats
This autumn we hope to create widespread publicity and inspire support for many of our most vital projects to safeguard the natural world. We’re calling this our Keep the World Wild initiative.
Read on to find out some of the many ways you can be involved – focusing on five of the key species that need our help.
Please do help WWF to Keep the World Wild!
Ice Bear in Trafalgar Square
Join us in Trafalgar Square from 11-20 December where renowned sculptor Mark Coreth has created a life-sized sculpture of a polar bear out of ice and bronze. The bear is slowly melting, symbolising the climate change crisis this and other species are now facing. The event coincides with the UN climate change conference where we are striving to secure the strongest possible agreement to tackle global warming.
Adopt a polar bear and you can help save this creature and its home from the effects of climate change. Recent summer thawing of Arctic sea ice – a result of the climate change now threatening our planet – has broken all records, making access to prey more difficult.
Scientists now believe that summer sea ice could disappear in just a few years time – and if that happens, polar bear numbers could plunge catastrophically.
Adopt a polar bear
Keep The World Wild exhibition
WWF is proud to be associated with Roger Hooper's latest exhibition of wildlife photography. You can see his spectacular images at Hoopers gallery in Clerkenwell from 4 December to 22 January 2010.
David Nussbaum, Chief Executive of WWF, will talk about the new Keep the World Wild initiative when he opens the exhibition.
The exhibition is on at Hoopers Gallery, 15 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0AA.
Time to help the tiger
Look out for our appeal highlighting the plight of this majestic icon of the natural world. With an estimated 4,000 tigers thought to survive in the wild, urgent action is needed to save them from poaching and habitat loss. We have launched an urgent global initiative to increase populations to at least 6,000 by 2020.
Adopt a tiger
Just the ticket
Our Christmas raffle will focus on the plight of the giant panda. You can order tickets online or by calling free on 0800 9540255. Money raised will help conservation projects such as our work in China to reconnect isolated populations of giant panda.
Pick up a penguin
Adopting a penguin is a brand new way to support WWF’s work – it makes a great Christmas gift or why not treat yourself? Follow the lives of five Adélie penguins in Antarctica and help us conserve this charismatic species.
On the north-western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, factors including climate change have caused populations of Adélie penguins to drop by 65% over the past 25 years. You’ll help us work to reverse this decline, and experience the challenges and successes involved in safeguarding this fascinating creature. Your adoption costs from as little as £3 a month. Adopt a penguin
Amur appeal
We desperately need your help safeguarding the Amur leopard – fewer than 40 are thought to survive in the wild. A huge thank you to all those who have already responded to our Amur leopard appeal, asking you to increase the amount you give to us. You may soon receive a call about this.
The Amur leopard is a new addition to our adopt-an-animal range – giving you the opportunity to follow the progress of Tolstyi, El’duga and Narva in south-eastern Russia. Your gift of adoption will help WWF protect these beautiful – and critically endangered – wild cats. Adopt a leopard
Watch out for more ways to Keep the World Wild here soon
