thank you
Thank you for helping us to achieve incredible things this year!
A massive thank you to each and every one of you for helping to achieve so much for our planet. This year you’ve supported our campaigns to protect World Heritage sites. You’ve helped make Earth Hour bigger than ever. You’ve helped us raise awareness by sharing our films. And you’ve run your socks off in our Team Panda events.
What’s more, your generosity is the reason we’ve been able to increase our spending on conservation around the world. It’s helping to achieve some truly inspiring successes. This year, wild tiger numbers increased globally for the first time in conservation history. The giant panda was officially reclassified: it’s no longer endangered (but it’s still vulnerable). Numbers of critically-endangered black rhinos in Kenya rose a further 5%, to 678. We helped convince 24 countries to agree to protect an incredible 1.5 million sq km of the Ross Sea, in Antarctica. And we were part of efforts to ensure 191 countries reached a historic agreement to control aviation emissions.
We couldn’t have done any of this without you. So we just wanted to say a great big thank you.
Deep reef community. Barrier reef, Carrie Bow Caye, Belize © Anthony B Rath / WWF
Together with you, we achieved great things this year in our international campaign to protect UNESCO World Heritage sites. By creating thousands of origami birds as part of our ‘origami migration’ you helped convince the Spanish government to cancel destructive dredging of the river that keeps Doñana national park’s spectacular wetlands healthy.
And your part in WWF’s global campaign to send more than 190,000 emails to the Belize prime minister has helped ensure plans to explore for oil next to the fragile Belize barrier reef have been suspended.
We need to keep up the pressure – so please add your voice.
Thank you for showing you care so much about our planet.
Our Living Planet Report 2016 predicts that unless we change things now, we’ll see a 67% decline in populations of the world’s wildlife between 1970 and 2020.
You’ve helped us call for more ambitious action from governments across the UK to protect nature at home and overseas.
We invited our ambassador Sir David Attenborough and Professor Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre to reflect on the findings of the Living Planet Report, and the impact humans are having on our planet. It’s a must-see, and you can watch the video
Johan Rockstrom speaking at Living Planet Lecture.
© Richard Stonehouse / WWF-UK
Close-up of the eye of a Bengal tiger, (Panthera tigris tigris or Panthera tigris bengalensis) © National Geographic Stock / Michael Nichols / WWF
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we've raised a phenomenal £71.1 million this year. It’s the greatest amount we’ve ever raised at WWF-UK. And it’s allowed us to spend nearly 8% more on conservation than we did in the previous year. We can’t thank you enough. Without you, we really couldn’t do what we do!
