- Tell me more about WWF
- What do the initials WWF stand for?
- How can I work, volunteer or take an internship with WWF?
- Can artificial islands help save polar bears?
- I have problems with my animal adoption
And the answers are...
Please tell me more about WWF and whether you make the world a better place?
The following page provides a short but great overview of WWF, its mission, structure and what we focus on to help our living planet:However, for more detail you may wish to also read the following:
As to whether we make the world a better place, we certainly believe we do! Of course, ultimately, only you can decide whether or not you agree with us! Why not read about just some of our success stories and see for yourself.
Our online campaign tool has also had many successes.
Finally, you can also find out about recent highlights for WWF:
What does WWF stand for?
We haven't made it easy for you - what with changing our name in the early 1990s in some countries, and not in others, while having a large number of non-English translations of the initials, but basically this should help clear things up for you:What do I need to do if I want to work, volunteer or undergo an internship with WWF.
It's great that you want to work for nature conservation. To find out about employment opportunities or ways in which your skills and offer of support could be utilized, we encourage you to simply contact any WWF office of your choice. You could either contact them directly or write a letter, including your CV (Curriculum Vitae).The contact details of WWF offices from all over the world are available on this web site.
You could also visit our jobs section and some volunteer work opportunities are posted from time to time.
This page displays a number of offices that offer internships ... but you would have to write to individual WWF offices in areas of your choice to see if they can offer you something.
Why doesn't WWF make artificial ice islands to help the polar bears?
Polar bears have evolved over 200,000 years to survive in one of the world's harshest environments.To survive and breed they must catch lots of seals at holes in the ice - seals can easily outswim polar bears in open water. Therefore, sea ice is absolutely essential to polar bears throughout much of the year. It is this loss of sea ice for progressively longer periods in the arctic that is driving polar Bears towards extinction.
For sure a few handy artificial icebergs would give them a place to rest, true, but without an adequate food supply, such summer platforms would really be of little help other than as ambulance-like stretchers for ever-skinnier bears.
Clearly, the real solution is for societies and governments to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and shift to renewable energy supplies and embark on a truly sustaianble life on this planet. If we don't, it does look likely that there will be no more polar bears in the wild.
