World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Global conservation:wwf partners with local communities, individuals, governments, businesses and foundations to Fund actions to ensure effective management of conservation areas; protect wetlands and rivers from depletion; conserve marine seascapes and reduce overfishing; reduce drivers of nature loss from food systems; reduce conflicts between local people and Wildlife; employ energy solutions that generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the current energy production system; and enact forest management approaches that regenerate or restore critical habitats for Wildlife and a range of forest-based products for people. (see schedule o for more details)

Public education:with over one million members in the united states, wwf-us is working to inform and encourage everyone to support a future in which people and nature thrive. Wwf shares information with the american public on nature's value and the importance of conservation through a variety of channels, including our wild classrooms educational curriculum, our signature publication World Wildlife magazine, our public service announcements, our website, our direct outreach, and our annual events such as earth hour. (see schedule o for more details)

International country programs:from peru's rainforests and the mountains of bhutan to namibia's communal conservancies, the wwf network brings its science-based and results oriented approach to environmental challenges. Wwf supports the creation of nature-based livelihoods for communities in some of the World's most remote locations. Wwf-us specifically manages country-office operations throughout latin america, as well as in bhutan, namibia, and nepal - directly supporting conservation efforts in some of the most ecologically diverse places on earth. (see schedule o for more details)

Public affairs: at wwf, we believe we can foster a safer, healthier and more resilient future for people and nature. We help individual citizens and some of the World's largest companies rethink the way they produce and consume energy, food, and water. Wwf provides decisionmakers with the results of field studies describing the biological richness of some of the World's most productive regions, research into the loss or degradation of key ecological systems such as the arctic, tropical rainforests, fisheries, coral reefs, river systems and wetlands and solutions based on technology applications, policy incentives, and actions that individual citizens can take to protect our planet.

Market transformation: wwf partners with corporations, government agencies, local communities, ngos, universities and research institutes to reduce the impact of the production and trade of commodities that most affect our conservation priorities. Our goal is to measurably reduce the most significant impacts of individual actors as well as entire industries.

Form 990, fy23 results, part iii:in fy 2023, wwf made valuable strides in addressing some of the most significant conservation challenges facing the planet. Among many achievements, we note these:shaping the new global biodiversity framework: in late 2022, wwf's fuller symposium convened experts from wwf and partner organizations to raise awareness about the power of "other effective area-based conservation measures or oecms. The oecm framework aims to bring greater recognition of and support for sites beyond traditionally protected areas and national parks, including indigenous lands and privately conserved areas thatregardless of their reason for existingdeliver on biodiversity goals. In june 2023, with support from margaret a. cargill philanthropies and others, wwf cohosted a workshop on oecms attended by nearly 50 participants from 14 latin american and caribbean countries representing indigenous and nongovernmental organizations and government ministries and agencies. And in december 2022, more than 190 countries approved a united nations agreement to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, including conserving 30% of earth's lands and waters with oecms embedded in the plan. Often called 30x30, target 3 of the global biodiversity framework represents a shared global commitment that will galvanize action at an unprecedented scale. As target 3 moves into action, wwf and others are supporting countries, ngos, indigenous and local leaders, and more to ensure countries pursue conservation measures that embrace equitable, effective protected areas and oecms. The goal is to drive greater support and funds to everything from highly biodiverse, indigenous-held sacred sites to marine areas managed sustainably by local communities.advancing historic climate action: in fy23 wwf endorsed and strongly advocated for the passage of the inflation reduction act, which contained the largest investment in climate action in american history. The bill was passed by congress and signed into law by the president in august 2023, unleashing some $370 billion in historic investments to help the united states meet its climate change commitments under the paris agreement in areas as diverse as clean energy, climate-smart agriculture, and coastal resilience. Additionally, the renewable thermal collaborative (rtc), which wwf founded to achieve an ambitious goal of reducing industrial thermal energy emissions by 30% over the next decade, released its vision report that outlined pathways to decarbonize u.s. industry by 2050. Wwf released version 2 of the tropical forest credit integrity (tfci) guide along with eight major environmental and indigenous peoples organizations. The guidance outlines how to differentiate forest carbon credits and help move the market toward credits with high social and environmental integrity.protecting Alaska's bristol bay: Alaska's bristol bay supplies 44% of the World's sockeye salmon. For decades, however, a proposed mine in the bay's headwaters threatened miles of salmon streams and thousands of acres of wetlands, ponds, and lakes. After years of regional and national efforts to block the mine, a decidedly local decisiondriven by native landowners and supported by a coalition of organizations including wwf could be a pivotal step toward stopping the mining project for good. The indigenous-led bristol bay victory challenge raised $20 million to purchase a conservation easement on 44,000 acres owned by an Alaska native corporation. The easement, announced in december 2022, will permanently protect the land, safeguarding vital salmon rivers and bisecting the route of a proposed road from the mine site to a deepwater shipping port. And in january 2023, the us environmental protection agency took a major step toward further securing the bay, banning the disposal of mine waste in the proposed pebble mine area. Over the years, more than 650,000 wwf supporters have signed petitions aimed at stopping the mine and securing the lands and waters that support Wildlife, the salmon fishery, and Alaska native communities.disrupting Wildlife crime: Wildlife crime represents an urgent threat to rhinos, elephants, tigers, and any other vulnerable species; it also undermines Wildlife economies that protect animals and benefit the communities with whom they coexist. Wwf is committed to stopping poaching, disrupting illegal supply chains, and reducing consumer demand. We equip rangers who protect endangered Wildlife with essentials like thermal imaging cameras, deploy dogs to sniff out contraband in transit, and convene multinational tech companies to detect and block illegal trade online. We cast a wide net, and we target hot spots like southeast asia a key consumer and transit hub for elephant ivory as well as a top market for rhino horn. With funding from partners including the us state department, usaid, and the us fish and Wildlife service, we are enhancing efforts to stop illegal Wildlife tracking while also working to change behaviors and beliefs among producers and consumers through corporate social responsibility initiatives and campaigns to reduce demand. And in february 2023 we conducted a workshop with customs and port authority agents in viet nam to improve detection of Wildlife trafficking. A month later, the viet nam customs authority seized seven tons of elephant ivory in a sea container smuggled from angola.safeguarding rhinos in namibia: namibia is home to the World's largest population of black rhinos, including a growing number that roam freely in the northwestern kunene region, where the country established one of its first communal conservancies more than 30 years ago with wwf's help. Today there are 86 conservancies nationwide where communities exercise the right to manage Wildlife and benefit from it through tourism and other sustainable ventures. The model has been such a success thatthanks in part to community rhino rangers, education programs, and rebounding tourism revenuesno rhinos were poached in namibian conservancies in 2022. In fact, an august 2022 report to which wwf contributed found rhino populations across africa that are comanaged with local communities are doing better than those managed by government agencies alone. And in june 2023, wwf-namibia secured long-term funding to establish a conservation corridor in kunene between skeleton coast national park and etosha national park, 100 miles inland. This sustained baseline of financing supports not only these iconic protected areas but also the proposed ombonde people's park, an initiative of the local otjiherero and ovahimba communities whose communal lands include important habitats that bridges the two parks.future-proofing global river systems: connected and resilient rivers are lifelines. They support plants and animals, recharge aquifers, and replenish sediment in fertile floodplains and deltas. But hydropower dams and other components of our built environment increasingly impede rivers and threaten freshwater species, which have declined by 83% since 1970. With infrastructure expected to double by 2030 to provide food, energy, and other needs to a growing human population, wwf is advocating for holistic energy-system planning that moves beyond site-by-site considerations to better balance renewable energy development and the stewardship of freshwater resources. In march 2023, wwf played a leading role at the united nations water conferencethe first global summit on water in almost 50 years. We stressed the scale of the freshwater crisis and built momentum to stop the construction of poorly designed or located dams, protect Wildlife, and safeguard communities that rely on healthy rivers for their livelihoods. We also helped announce the wwf-supported freshwater challenge. Championed by colombia, the democratic republic of the congo, ecuador, gabon, mexico, and zambia, the challenge aims to restore more than 186,000 miles of rivers and more than 860 million acres of wetlands, an area larger than indiaby 2030.celebrating progress during the year of the tiger: wwf has long urged the us congress to pass the big cat public safety act, which is intended to help prevent captive tigers from ending up in the illegal trade in tiger parts and products a primary threat to the species in the wild. It also aims to help ensure the welfare of captive big cats, as well as public safety, by requiring facilities to obtain a federal permit for big cat ownership. Through these actions, information would be provided on who owns them, when they're sold or traded and what happens to their parts when they die. After many years of advocacy, the big cat public safety act was passed and signed into law in december 2022.

Pushing for a global plastics treaty: in march 2022, 175 nations voted to establish a global treaty for plastic pollution at the un environmental assembly convened in nairobi, kenya. This began a two-year process to develop and finalize the treaty. In september 2022, in support of this process, wwf and the ellen macarthur foundation launched the business coalition for a global plastics treaty to support an ambitious, effective, and legally binding international agreement that accelerates the transition to a circular economy. Throughout the rest of fy23 wwf continued to engage in advocacy efforts to ensure that the final treaty will deliver on our vision of ending plastic pollution.