Protect Our World's Forests
World Wildlife Fund
Eighty percent of the world's known terrestrial plant and animal species can be found in forests. In fact, a square kilometer of forest may be home to more than 1,000 species.
But threats to the world's forests are growing at an alarming pace. Expanding agriculture and illegal and unsustainable logging, usually resulting from the demand for cheap wood and paper, are responsible for most of the destruction of the world's forests
You can help us stop this by protecting the world's forests. You're a valuable WWF activist, so we wanted to send you this opportunity to show your support for forests in an impactful way. Donate today and 100% of your donation will support WWF's forest conservation work. And, if you donate $55 or more, you can choose to receive this organic bamboo and cotton T-shirt as a thank-you gift
Your contribution will help us protect some of the planet's last intact rain forests, reforest regions that need it, encourage responsible forest management, and work on many other projects that conserve forests around the world.
Five Ways WWF Protects Forests
Together with many partners around the world, WWF works to ensure that the world’s most important forests are protected. Here are five ways we do that:
1. Funding permanent protection: WWF and its partners use an innovative funding approach that ensures the long-term financial stability—and the long-term conservation—of protected areas.
2. Creating and strengthening policies: WWF helps create and strengthen policies in the US and worldwide to deter illegally sourced timber. In the US, our focus is the Lacey Act, which prohibits illegal timber and timber products from entering the US market.
3. Promoting responsible production: We work to effect change among nearly 200 companies and other entities that want to create a market for environmentally responsible forest products.
4. Promoting responsible consumption: We encourage people—from individuals to leaders of government agencies—to buy forest products with the Forest Stewardship Council label, which means the product's material was sourced from a responsibly managed forest.
5. Reducing pollutants: We help create programs that are designed to pay groups or countries for protecting their forests and reducing emissions of greenhouse gas pollutants, especially carbon dioxide.
Donate and help protect our forests to sustain nature's diversity, benefit our climate and support human well-being. .
5. Reducing pollutants: We help create programs that are designed to pay groups or countries for protecting their forests and reducing emissions of greenhouse gas pollutants, especially carbon dioxide
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