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Establishment
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded on April 29, 1961, and is working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment.It was formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States. -
World Wildlife Fund, Inc.-The U.S. Appeal
World Wildlife Fund, Inc. (WWF)—the U.S. appeal—became the second national organization to be formed in 1961. -
The British National Appeal
H.R.H. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1961 became president of the British National Appeal, the first national organization in the World Wildlife Fund family. -
Launch of WWF in London
Launch of WWF at the Royal Society of Arts, London, September 28, 1961. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Incorporated in the District of Columbia on December 1, 1961, WWF named Dwight D. Eisenhower its President of Honor. -
Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy
WWF hires its first scientist, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, as a project administrator, in 1973. -
WWF helps Americas Initiative
WWF in 1991 helps create the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, which to date has gene-
rated more than $150 million in conservation and development funding from the proceeds of restructured government-to-government debt in seven Latin American countries -
Study on Pandas by WWF
WWF and the Chinese government in 2004 release the most comprehensive study ever done of pandas in the wild, showing nearly 50 percent more pandas than previously thought. -
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
WWF in 2007 forms the Climate Savers Computing Initiative with Google, IBM, Dell, Intel and others, establishing new efficiency standards for computers that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54 million tons per year. -
50th Anniversary
WWF-US 50th Anniversary
