Our successes

To address the biggest threats to the natural world, we’ve set ourselves many ambitious targets to meet by 2018 – in six key areas.

Giant progress China’s fourth National Giant Panda survey found at least 1,864 pandas in the wild– a rise of nearly 17% since 2003

Stripes surveyed Wild tiger populations are showing signs of increasing – at the halfway point in a 12-year plan to double their numbers

Nepal numbers A survey we supported found 645 greater one-horned rhinos in Nepal – a 21% rise

Amazing Amur tale We’ve helped to increase wild Amur leopard populations from around 35 to around 70 in the last nine years

Curbing wildlife crime The latest conference on illegal wildlife trade agreed new measures

Javan joy Footage from Java’s Ujung Kulon National Park has revealed welcome evidence that Javan rhinos are breeding

Snow tracks We’ve helped ensure no snow leopards were poached or killed in retaliation for attacks on livestock in Kangchenjunga, Nepal

Amazon abundance We supported a count of Amazon river dolphins in an area threatened by hydropower development

Beyond borders Camera traps we set up show wild Amur tigers are steadily spreading further into China, beyond the border with Russia

Turtle increase We’ve recorded an increase in the number of adult female turtles nesting in Lamu seascape, Kenya

Magical Mekong A report we collated shows 139 previously unknown species in the region around the Greater Mekong river

Hidden Himalayas More than 200 species have been discovered in the eastern Himalayas since 2009

Great Barrier relief WWF campaigned for increased protection for the Great Barrier Reef

Rainforest rescue Our successful public campaign with Sky, to keep one billion trees standing in the Amazon, ended in 2015

Ocean blues Our Living Blue Planet Report highlights that average population sizes of marine vertebrates have nearly halved since 1970

Robot recce We’ve launched marine robots to help us better understand the importance of UK marine hotspots to wildlife

Amazon millions An Amazon protection programme we helped launch in 2002 now helps protect 59.3m hectares of rainforest

Treetop triumph We’re working to restore forest cover in Sabah, Borneo, so it offers better habitat for wildlife including orang-utans

Logging axed Our efforts to raise awareness about the critical importance to wildlife of particular forests in China have paid off

UK water win We won our legal action against Defra and the Environment Agency for failing to ensure the UK’s most precious rivers, lakes and coastal areas were healthy

Pantanal pact With HSBC, we’ve been encouraging action to protect springs and rivers and secure the future of the Pantanal

Finless feat We supported translocation of eight finless porpoises, which can start new populations in lakes we’ve been helping to restore

Seeds of success A scheme we launched with HSBC is reducing soil erosion in the Mara river basin. It’s part of our efforts to restore river flows and improve livelihoods

Turning the tide We’ve designed a system that shows dam developers which Amazon rivers are priorities for conservation

Snap happy We helped to release 65 captive-bred young gharials in a wildlife sanctuary in the upper Ganges

Fighting for forests More than 100,000 people added their names to our forest campaign petition. Over 50 well-known businesses have given us their backing, too

Union for tuna A new partnership will improve the sustainability rating of about one third of all canned tuna sold in the UK

Top marks We renewed our Seafood Charter partnership with M&S

Timber sustainability scores Our Timber Scorecard assessed the transparency of 100 businesses about their use of sustainable timber

Tuna triumph We won an award for our technical support and leadership for sustainable fisheries in the south-west Indian Ocean

Trade body backing The Timber Trade Federation, which has 300-plus members, signed up to support our forest campaign

African agreement We helped broker a groundbreaking agreement that Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda will improve timber trade in this region

Seafood success We’ve raised greater awareness among fishing fleets and government fisheries departments about MSC certification

Fillip for the Philippines Our yellowfin tuna improvement project in the Philippines has received new support from several UK companies

A global deal More than 190 countries reached a ground-breaking agreement to tackle climate change, at UN talks in Paris

Action for the Arctic We’ve been helped in our efforts to inspire people to take action to tackle climate change, thanks to a film by Finn and Jack Harries (JacksGap)

Coal fired We’ve been successful in our call for the UK to phase out coal power

Scotland renewables success We published research identifying the path to Scotland becoming a fully renewable electricity nation by 2030

Poetry promotion Stephen Fry, Meera Syal, Jarvis Cocker and others helped us engage millions of people on the subject of climate change

Scotland’s way ahead WWF Scotland was among the founding members of Scotland’s Low Carbon Infrastructure Task Force

Building on Scotland’s energy efficiency The Scottish government committed to establish energy efficiency as a National Infrastructure Priority

Climate concerns We were part of the biggest ever climate lobby of Parliament

Global goals UN member states adopted new goals to guide the planet towards sustainable development over the next 15 years

Wellbeing in Wales The Welsh Assembly passed a groundbreaking act to further sustainable development in Wales

Keeping Europe’s nature alive We joined more than 500,000 people who spoke up to preserve EU laws that protect Europe’s amazing wildlife

Rethinking risk Our report showed almost a third of UNESCO natural World Heritage sites are under threat of oil, gas and mining exploration

Low-carbon opportunities We joined leading global investors in Mercer’s major project assessing opportunities for investors in a transition to a low-carbon economy

A greener budget The UK committed to developing a 25-year plan to restore biodiversity, and to retain the Natural Capital Committee – which we called for