The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an international conservation organization founded in 1961, and known internationally as the World Wide Fund for Nature. The World Wildlife Fund acts with other U.S. organizations in a network to conserve the natural environment and ecological processes essential to life. Particular attention is paid to endangered species and to natural habitats important for human welfare. In hundreds of projects conducted or supported around the world, WWF helps protect endangered wildlife and habitats and helps protect the earth's biodiversity through fieldwork, scientific research, institutional development, wildlife trade monitoring, public policy initiatives, technical assistance and training, environmental education, and communications.

WWF has articulated nine goals that guide its work:

• to protect habitat
• to protect individual species
• to promote ecologically sound development
• to support scientific investigation
• to promote education in developing countries
• to provide training for local wildlife professionals
• to encourage...