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WWF replied on October 29, 2009 10:57 to the question "WWF: "threat of chemicals" fact or fiction?" in WWF:

Hi Brandon

You make some excellent points.

Unfortunately the document you refer to is about 5 years old and we no longer have a programme of work on toxics. Not for some years now. What this effectively means is that we do not have any guidelines or set of principles on this issue to share with you. Equally, and our apologies, we do not have the staff anymore who can respond correctly and satisfactorily to the questions you justifiably raise.

However, in your feedback there is an overarching issue which WWF must address in all its reports. Especially if we are achieve any degree of credibility.

This is why the comments that you have made will be pushed up to highest levels here.

Our apologies again that we can't answer your direct questions, but we are sincerely grateful that you raised this as an issue.

I will also remove the report that you refer to from our site today.

Ste

WWF replied on October 23, 2009 07:21 to the question "From where could i send some of my works ?" in WWF:

Hi Victor

You can send them to questions@wwf.panda.org. The max total attachment size that you can send in 1 email is 20MB.

They will then get forwarded on to the correct people.

Cheers

ste

WWF replied on October 19, 2009 10:11 to the question "May i know about wwf SWOT analysis?" in WWF:

Hi Yee Ru

I'm not too clear what you need. As far as I know (which doesn't say a lot :-) a SWOT analysis is performed on a specific project?

Do you have a specific project in mind? I can then ask around.

cheers

ste

WWF replied on October 15, 2009 10:26 to the problem "Problem adding Facebook Account to Admin" in Causes:

hi David

It happens when trying to add a facebook friend here

http://nonprofits.causes.com/account/...

If I add a friend (after connecting) it simply refreshes and shows only me.

WWF reported a problem in Causes on October 14, 2009 07:44:

Problem adding Facebook Account to Admin

How do

I'm trying to add friends to the Causes admin for WWF, but having no joy. Is it me, ir is there a wee bug at the moment?

WWF replied on October 07, 2009 10:50 to the idea "Easy Share Button" in WWF:

Hey Harry - you read our mind :-)

We hope to have a button like this on the site within the next 2 weeks.

Thanks for the input. Great minds thinking alike and all that :-)

Any more top ideas, please do send them in.

Cheers

ste

WWF replied on October 06, 2009 17:26 to the question ""HOW and WHY was the WWF formed"" in WWF:

Hi Melissa

The How historically:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/histo...

The Why holistically:

http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/why_w...

And just in case... The Who:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/

WWF replied on October 06, 2009 17:21 to the idea "Wrong Goals - Bad Science" in WWF:

HI SR

Although in more general terms I would agree with you about the horror of being wasteful, isn't the point more about being sustainable

Or have I misunderstood the point you are making? (apologies if so)

I mean, you could spend your money on buying the same pair of shoes 50 times and wearing each pair only once. But if you earn enough money to do that, although it is terribly wasteful, it is at least, in terms of your income, sustainable?

About the forests: really? OK - I will see if I can find any facts on that as I'm no expert.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers

ste

WWF replied on October 06, 2009 16:32 to the question "How to Calculate Your Ecological Footprint" in WWF:

You are absolutely right.

And to your suggested solution: I was also thinking this morning how the whole thing could be simplified... it doesn't have to be scientifically accurate, but more an indicator. One that can be easily used and adopted and most importantly spread around.

For example, you could have a scale of 1 to 10 - with 1 being the lowest impact and 10 the highest.

You could then assign different actions different points levels.

So

* cycling 2x a week to get somewhere is 1 point.
* driving every day is 10 points.
* eating meat less than 3x a week is 4 points
* eating meat every day is 8 points

They are simply be indicators.

So come up with enough questions (that you could just take from any footprint calculator), test with 3 or 4 people, score them, maybe tweak the points as you go, and you should find different levels appearing.

Then you could assign a traffic light indication of how big the person's footprint is based on how many points they get

Red: whoah, think again (> XXXpoints)
Green: nice going (<xx>re still (and always) learning.

cheers

ste

WWF replied on October 05, 2009 16:18 to the question "How to Calculate Your Ecological Footprint" in WWF:

Hi Charles

Just to add to Jackie's response...

As far as I know it all gets pretty complex.

There is a PDF document here that (kind of) shows how footprints are calculated:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/image...

And in there, *i think* it is the "CLUMS" that are used as the main basis for how our impacts are measured.

It doesn't provide the full full-on data sheets that are used to arrive at the footprint results, but I believe these are huge (huge) bundles of information.

I would say that the best people to contact about this would be these people:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/in...

Sorry I can't be of more help right now, but I'll ask around in the office and see if I can find out anything in addition.

(And will report it here if I do).

cheers

ste

WWF replied on September 30, 2009 14:28 to the question "What is the salary of presidents of WWF?" in WWF:

Hey Christine

OK - so I did know the answer (our own in-house oracle confirmed it for me).

The President is a voluntary position. They get no wage.

Hope this answers your question.

Cheers

Ste

WWF replied on September 30, 2009 09:40 to the question "What is the salary of presidents of WWF?" in WWF:

Hi Christine

I'm just double checking on your first question (I think I know the answer, but just want to be sure).

As for the second, the expenditure (and income) is broken down here:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/organ...

Also on this page:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/

Need to scroll down, on the right hand side... there are reports going back to 2003 that list the financials for WWF for each year.

(2003 is when we changed the format of how we report, hence why it starts then and not before).

Right: I'll get back to you on the salary question as soon as I'm sure I won't make a fool of myself.

cheers

Ste

WWF replied on September 23, 2009 08:52 to the question "Wetlands Project WA" in WWF:

Hi Lucy

Just to add to Jackie's response. You could contact Chris, the Project Lead for this, directly using this email:

ccurnow [at] wwf. org. au

The [at] = @

(I write it this way so that Chris's email does not get picked up by email harvesting engines :-)

WWF replied on September 22, 2009 07:18 to the idea "WWF web sites translated" in WWF:

Jackie is right.

But the other thing you can do is simply enter the URL of the WWF web site that you want translated here:

http://www.translate.google.com/trans...

It's pretty rough, and it doesn't do Mongolian yet, which I believe is what you wanted translated, but it usually does a pretty good.

WWF replied on September 18, 2009 08:13 to the problem "server problem" in WWF:

Hi

This was probably a blip on the servers. I checked the downloads and their links and they seem to be OK now.

If you are still having a problem, let us know the URL of the page where the report is failing to download for you, and we'll take a look.

Sorry for any inconvenience this blip caused.

Cheers

ste

WWF replied on September 17, 2009 14:05 to the problem "wrong dates" in WWF:

Thanks Ellen - no idea how the wrong dates got there.

I'm fixing it now.

Ta for the heads up.

Ste

WWF replied on September 15, 2009 12:33 to the problem "Can't print the donate page" in WWF:

Hi Sarah

Yes - sorry about this. We recently had the site redesigned, and now some of the pages do not come out correctly when printing.

We hope to have this fixed within the next few weeks... but admittedly we thought the same thing a few weeks back, and it is still not working.

So at the moment all I can do is offer you our apologies and sincerely promise you that this is definitely something we are currently working on.

cheers

ste

WWF replied on September 10, 2009 15:31 to the problem "Broken link" in WWF:

Many thanks Fish for alerting us to this.

I've tried to find a suitable replacement site and also see where and if the original page moved. But with no luck. So I have had to remove the link altogether.

WWF replied on September 09, 2009 07:43 to the question "How is WWF financed: is it a QUANGO?" in WWF:

Hi Margaret

The answer is no, we are not a Quango (according to the definition I understand):

"an organisation to which government has devolved power"

We are an independent organisation:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/organ...

With our own board of Trustees:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/organ...

But we do get funding from some Government aid agencies in order to carry out specific and targeted projects that align with our projects and ultimate goals/mission:

http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/how_w...

More information on our finances can be found here:

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/organ...

And also in the Annual Review that we publish each year (PDF):

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf... (2008 1.1MB)

At the bottom of this page you can find our Annual Reviews going back to 2003

http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/organ...

and just in case I missed anything:

http://www.panda.org/wwf_quick_facts.cfm

:-)

Hope this helps.

Cheers

ste

WWF replied on September 07, 2009 14:50 to the problem "WWF Brazil" in WWF:

Hi Teresa

You are absolutely right and we are equally aghast.

WWF did not approve the advertisements produced by DBB Brazil but nonetheless apologizes to 9-11 victims and families for any pain they may have caused.

We are outraged that the ad concept was ever created and we are deeply sorry that WWF is in any way connected with them.

The ad was unthinkably insensitive and should never have seen the light of day and it does not in any way reflect the thoughts and feelings of the people of WWF nor the values we uphold.