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What the world needs now is love
What the world needs now is love
We were thrilled to team up with Universal Music and the singer Will Young to release a special Christmas single. Putting his own unique spin on the Burt Bacharach classic What The World Needs Now Is Love, Will highlighted the decline of nearly half of global wildlife populations since the song was first released in 1965.
Counting rhinos in Nepal
Counting rhinos in Nepal
Experience some of the drama of surveying the rhino population in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park – a land of tall grasses, rivers, swamps and thick forest. We supported the latest survey, where 645 individual rhinos were counted – a 21% increase since 2011. Help WWF tackle poaching and the illegal wildlife trade
Our Changing Climate: JacksGap join WWF in Greenland
Our Changing Climate: JacksGap join WWF in Greenland
Finn and Jack Harries’ films (as JacksGap) have clocked up more than 185 million views on YouTube. They joined our polar programme manager Rod Downie and glaciologist professor Alun Hubbard on a trip to Greenland’s ice sheet. They produced this excellent short documentary, which highlights the threats posed by climate change and offers optimism that together we can tackle them.
A living river – the story of Lake Hong
A living river – the story of Lake Hong
A beautiful film about the transformation of the Yangtze’s Lake Hong. Since 2002, with the support of HSBC, we’ve helped to deliver positive changes for communities along the Yangtze and the ecosystems that they depend on.
The Celtic Seas: wondrous wildlife on your doorstep
The Celtic Seas: wondrous wildlife on your doorstep
A beautiful portrait of the vibrant life beneath the waves just off the coast of the British Isles. The Celtic Seas are home to thousands of amazing species, including fin whales and basking sharks. The film explains how the Celtic Seas Partnership, led by WWF, works with communities and industries that depend on these waters to protect them from overexploitation, pollution and climate change.
Earth Hour UK celebrations in 2015
Earth Hour UK celebrations in 2015
Across the UK, 10.4 million people joined the world's biggest celebration for our planet. Iconic landmarks switched off their lights – including Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the OXO Tower, the lights in Piccadilly Circus, Edinburgh Castle and the Senedd in Cardiff. We hosted events at our Living Planet Centre, too.
Learn more about climate change, penguins and polar bears
Learn more about climate change, penguins and polar bears
A lovely film by WWF-UK and Templar Publishing, based on Christiane Dorion’s book ‘How the weather works’. It explains in a simple way how climate change is caused and how it impacts on penguins, polar bears and the whole planet. It also suggests positive actions we can take to reduce our own carbon footprint.
Turtle’s-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef
Turtle’s-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef
We supported a successful global WWF campaign for increased protection of the iconic World Heritage site – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – against industrial destruction. The reef is home to almost 6,000 species. Our video shows a snippet of what a journey through the reef looks like for one of them: a green turtle.
A simple love poem for the world
A simple love poem for the world
As part of the campaign to #showthelove in the lead-up to the UN climate summit in Paris, we joined forces with Ridley Scott Associates and David Harewood, Meera Syal, Stephen Fry, Dermot O’Leary, Jarvis Cocker, Deborah Meaden, Emilia Fox, Alison Steadman and Raymond Blanc who brought Shakespeare’s Sonnet number 18 to life in a beautiful film that celebrates the world around us.
Why the Amazon matters for all of us
Why the Amazon matters for all of us
A fantastic animated video that explains why we all feel the impact of a tree being felled in the Amazon. Deforestation continues at a rate of 1.72 million trees a day, clearing a space equivalent to about three football pitches every minute. Find out how the consequences of deforestation are felt around the world.
Giant panda rangers: a day in the life
Giant panda rangers: a day in the life
Ranger Zhouhonglin explains how camera traps that we’ve provided are helping giant pandas and other wildlife in China. Learn more about his daily work and how he and other rangers are helping to protect giant pandas.
Incredible penguin-cam captures life in Antarctic seas
Incredible penguin-cam captures life in Antarctic seas
A penguin’s-eye view of life in Antarctic waters – thanks to a tiny camera mounted on the back of an Adélie penguin. It was filmed in Terre Adélie – ‘the land of the Adélies’. Filmed as part of a wider scientific study, the footage provides vital information about the penguin’s foraging strategies. You can adopt an Adélie penguin at wwf.org.uk/penguin
Biggest ever climate lobby of Parliament
Biggest ever climate lobby of Parliament
Thousands of people joined us and the rest of the Climate Coalition in an event to lobby more than 300 MPs in Parliament and along London's South Bank. We all called on MPs to take strong action to tackle climate change.
Tracking the blue whale in southern Chile
Tracking the blue whale in southern Chile
A fascinating film of our expedition to the Gulf of Corcovado in southern Chile to attach transmitters to blue whales so we can learn more about where they migrate to, and which feeding areas they use most. This helps to identify priority areas for protection. WWF’s Francisco Viddi joins scientists from Centro Ballena Azul (Blue Whale Centre) on this incredible quest.
Sniffer dogs Murray and Sears on a training exercise
Sniffer dogs Murray and Sears on a training exercise
Our global ambassador Andy Murray is passionate about protecting endangered animals. He’s also well known for his love of dogs. So he’s chosen to lend particular support to our new sniffer dog programme in Nepal, including the training of two Belgian shepherd dogs that have been named Murray and Sears (after Andy and his wife).
Andy Murray and sniffer dogs: to be the best
Andy Murray and sniffer dogs: to be the best
Our global ambassador Andy Murray has taken time out of his hectic schedule to help us create engaging videos that encourage people to support WWF work that’s really close to his heart. Andy is taking every opportunity to help us raise awareness of the growing threat that poaching and illegal trade pose to some of the world’s most vulnerable wildlife.
Andy Murray trains Wimbledon puppies
Andy Murray trains Wimbledon puppies
Andy Murray, global ambassador for WWF, is supporting the work of sniffer dogs in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. In this fun short film, Andy joins five cocker spaniel puppies, during only their second outing to become sniffer dogs.
Rare Javan rhino mother and calves
Rare Javan rhino mother and calves
New camera trap footage of critically-endangered Javan rhinos shows a mother with three calves – providing a glimmer of hope for the future. The rhino species clings to survival in Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park. We’re working to improve the quality of the habitat. We’re also supporting anti-poaching efforts and securing political will to establish a second population.
Sumatran rhino – rare camera trap footage
Sumatran rhino – rare camera trap footage
Only around 100 critically-endangered Sumatran rhinos survive in the wild. Their numbers fell by 50% or more in the 1990s, but their rapid decline has slowed during the last decade, owing to better protection.
Introducing Wear it Wild
Introducing Wear it Wild
A film that explains to schoolchildren and youth groups why we asked people to Wear it Wild – to raise awareness of the decline in numbers of some of our planet’s most threatened species, including tigers and rhinos. Wear it Wild in 2016 on 27 May!
WWF-UK’s Wear it Wild
WWF-UK’s Wear it Wild
WWF’s Wear it Wild was perfect excuse to don a leopard print onesie, wear a zebra print tie to work or rock some ’80s print on the school run. Whatever way you chose to Wear it Wild, you helped to raise funds to protect the planet's beautiful wildlife. In 2016, Wear it Wild will be on 27 May.
Celebrating the wonderful orang-utan
Celebrating the wonderful orang-utan
A wonderful video featuring orang-utans in one of the reserves in Sabah (north-east Borneo) where we’re working to restore forest cover so it offers better habitat for wildlife. We’ve supported aerial nest count surveys to map where the orang-utans are. The results have helped us advocate for more forests to be restored and protected.
Playful Amur leopard: camera trap footage
Playful Amur leopard: camera trap footage
A young female Amur leopard, known as Berry, plays in front of a camera trap in Russia’s Land of the Leopard National Park.
Snow leopard: how to fit a satellite collar
Snow leopard: how to fit a satellite collar
We supported a project to fit a snow leopard in Nepal with a collar that has satellite GPS technology. It will help conservationists track the snow leopard’s movement patterns and habitat use, and improve efforts to save this elusive species.
Captured Amur tiger released into the wild
Captured Amur tiger released into the wild
A young male Amur tiger was identified as a ‘conflict tiger’ in an area where prey was depleted. Rather than confining him to a life of captivity, the Russian government gave him a second chance. We supported efforts to capture, collar and release the tiger in a different region – in the mountains of the Russian Far East.
Thank you for joining the 2015 climate marches
Thank you for joining the 2015 climate marches
A snippet of the atmosphere on the day more than 50,000 of you joined us on climate marches in Cardiff, Edinburgh and London – as 785,000 people took to the streets across the world to call for strong action to tackle climate change.
For the love of the Arctic
For the love of the Arctic
Rod Downie, our polar programme manager, invites us all to speak up for the things we love that are affected by climate change.
WWF and Barclays: preserving resources and livelihoods in east Africa
WWF and Barclays: preserving resources and livelihoods in east Africa
WWF is working with Barclays to fund vital projects in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique. Our Protecting East African Resources and Livelihoods (PEARL) project helps to address some of the main direct threats to biodiversity loss, natural resource degradation and livelihood vulnerability in east Africa.
Yangtze finless porpoises
Yangtze finless porpoises
CNN's David McKenzie encounters Yangtze finless porpoises. WWF and HSBC are working to improve the prospects of this critically endangered species in China.