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Hi Franca
You must have found our youth volunteer option which does have an age limit. However, if you have a look at our volunteer page, below our youth volunteer section, you will see a heading "volunteer with WWF in your own country". This is the bit that you are looking for. Most volunteer programs are run from our national offices so you will need to contact the WWF office in your country. However, please be aware that not all offices can offer volunteer placements.
http://www.panda.org/how_you_can_help...

Hi Debbie
WWF and all our millions of supporters are working hard to ensure a future that is more in harmony with nature than the one you describe. Have a look at our mission statement and see if it fits with your idea of what future we can all work towards.
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/
Why don't you also have a look through our pages of ideas of the myriad ways you can help to ensure a future more in line with WWFs vision.
http://www.panda.org/how_you_can_help/

Dear Joseph
There are lots of reasons and many of them are described on the following webpage.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

Dear Katharine
In fact ,Giant Pandas are only difficult breeders in captivity!
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

In the wild they are fine. A lot of WWF's work is about conserving their habitat they need so that they can do their thing in peace.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

Of course, by conserving Giant Panda habitat we also conserve the habitat of a myriad of other species! That is why the Giant Panda is one of our flagship species.

And yes, the Red Panda is also in our sights.
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/...

Hi Apud
Sounds like a project..... why not chat to your national WWF offices about ideas, possibilities and advice.
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_o...

WWF is already involved in Ujong Kulon national park as part of our rhino conservation work so it is worth disccussing!
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

Hi Kelvin
You might want to discuss this further with WWF South Africa but you may be interested in some of the work we are doing in South Africa with regards to rhino protection.
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_o...
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_o...
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_o...

This is our general African Rhino conservation program
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

Hi Lucy
You will need to contact our WWF Australia office for more details about their wetland project. Below is the WWF Australia "contact us" webpage.
http://wwf.org.au/about/contactus/

Here is a babel fish translation http://au.babelfish.yahoo.com/transla...

It makes the difference! We must make our part to preserve our planet. If each one to plant, at least, a tree in its house, garden, farm, we will be recompondo the nature of all the destruction that it already was caused! This will give more pure air, more birds, more beauty!

We couldn't agree more! Thanks Jefferson!

Hi Emma
Congratulations on knowing what you want to do and congratulations on wanting to help other species that we share this precious planet with! There is quite a lot you can do at 13yrs old but be aware you will need to cultivate patience! Patience and perserverence are 2 important hallmarks of success in conservation.

So what can you do?
1) Learn, learn and learn some more. The more educated you are about your fields of interest the better position you put yourself in and the better chance there is that you can do something positive for your planet. This website is a great start and has heaps of information about big cats as well many other endangered species and endangered places. Don't forget there is little point saving an animal species if they have nowhere to live or no food to live on so it is vital that the habitat of the animal is also conserved.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/where...

2)Go to your national WWF website and see if there is a junior club or even if there isn't contact them anyway to see what might be available for you or your school.
/http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/

3) You can also check out our "how you can help" pages. Some are suitable for you but others may not be. Make sure you grab your mum, dad, teacher or other caring adult to help you work out which ideas are right for you.
http://www.panda.org/how_you_can_help/

4)Many schools now encourage environmental action by their students so talk to your teacher about what is possible at your school. You may end up taking part in a kitchen garden (learning about food that is healthy to eat and healthy for the planet), checking streams for the health by investigating the bugs and animals that are living in it, planting trees on national tree day, "adopting" an endangered animal or perhaps something completely different.

As for what conservationists do? Well that is a big question! There are so many fields of conservation it would be very hard to know where to start. However, the following web page gives you links and ideas of the kinds of things that WWF staff become involved with,
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/footp...

Do conservationists get paid? Yes and No! Many people are conservationists because they believe it is the right way to behave. So they make conscious choices about everyday "green" living. They may compost, use solar power, ride a bike or volunteer locally to help conserve an area they love. However, their jobs may have nothing to do with conservation.

Others decide that they want to be conservationists both in their private life and as their job. These people do get paid but quite often have spent a lot of time volunteering to get the experience they need to get into the field they love. There is usually a strong education part as well. Many universities have environmental studies.

Hope that this helps...

Hi Inga-Lena
In general the arctic fox populations are OK but you are correct that the Scandanavian populations are at a critical low of only around 120 individuals.
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/...

Contact the Scandanavian WWF offices (Norway, Sweden and Finland) to see what programs are available regarding the arctic fox throughout Scandanavia.
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_o...

Hi,
Our national offices make decisions regard web pages rather than us. Some do have English versions but others have a made a decision not to - possibly because of resources or because the content is aimed at local communities.

Hope this explains the situation a little.

Hi Niranth
Your best bet is to contact your local vet for advice regarding the tortoise. Good luck.

Hi MC Deli
Thanks for the feedback!

Hi Izzy
Sustainable fishing is a complex issue that WWF currently tackles with illegal fishing being just one (albeit very problematic) aspect of ensuring healthy seas and oceans.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/footp...

And yes illegal fishing really does have a huge and unregulated impact on fish levels. Have a read of the following to get a good idea about the difficulties that need to be addressed with regards to illegal fishing.
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/...

To see what WWF does about illegal fishing have a read through the following
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/footp...

Hope this was helpful.

Hi Gena
First you need to know what our aims and goals are. To understand these read our mission statement in the following webpage.
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/
Just below our mission statement are the guidelines we use to ensure that while we go about achieving our goals we do them in a way that is consistent with WWF's beliefs regardless of which WWF office around the world we work from.

As to exactly how we achieve our goals - well there is no short answer to this but the following webpage and it's associated links are a good starting point. In essence, we prioritise places and species that require conservation and we work on reducing the impact that people have on our one and only planet.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/
I also suggest reading this next webpage (and links) as it goes into more detail that may be helpful with your project.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/how_w...

For an idea of some of our successes you can look at the following.
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/succe...

Good luck with your school project!

Dear Cherie
Thanks for your support!! However, it is our national offices that organise various promotional ideas and gifts such as the recycling bag. Please contact your national office directly to see if they still have this product as part of their merchandise.
The website URLs of our larger offices and links to our smaller offices are available at:
http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_o...

Hi Andrew
Thanks for the feedback. I am not sure which country you are from but chances are that the ad you saw was created/promoted by your national WWF office. Chances are that they sell the T-shirts you describe on their site. If they don't then you may want to suggest the idea to the national office......
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

Hi Greta
We couldn't agree more.
Here are our elephant pages
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...

Look at our solution pages to find out more about what we are doing for elephants (you can see them once you choose which type of elephant you want to find out more about).

Hi Lucie
Thanks for your feedback. We have tried a homework help section in the past but it is very hard to guess what your homework questions from around the world will be. It is also hard trying to work out which age we should target our pages too. Pre-school, early school, mid school or high school? All the age groups have different needs.....See our problem.

Also, to be honest, we've found that most kids go straight to the "help" section and ask their questions to us without having much of a look around the website to see if the answer to their question is already there. Perhaps we could have a page that helps kids work out how to really search and use the website?

However, we do have a great section known as "about our earth" which has lots of different topics you can explore. Not all of it will be kid-friendly but feel free to ask an adult to help you understand the bits that may not make a sense - a teacher, librarian, big brother or sister, or parent can all help
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/

Have a look through and let us know what you think would make it kid friendly. (It has pictures but perhaps you'd like different sort of pictures?)

The other thing you can do is check out your national office's webpage. Sometimes the national offices have kids clubs or kids pages. It's worth having a peak.

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

Dear Julia
Our response: Dear Chris,

Thank you for taking the time to contact us with your reactions to
“The Cove”. This hunt in Japan is not something that WWF is actively
working on at present, but we do greatly encourage the government of
Japan and the people of Taiji to reconsider it. WWF believes that,
as the hunt is not necessary for subsistence or cultural reasons, and
as management of the hunt has not been effective and transparent, and
as contaminant levels in the dolphin meat pose a human health concern,
a switch in Taiji from dolphin hunting to dolphin and whale watching
would be extremely positive.

We encourage people to visit www.takepart.com/thecove for information
on many different ways to get involved.
WWF has a long and active history in whale, dolphin and porpoise
conservation. WWF is the only NGO working to conserve all 5
populations of river dolphins, and has many active programmes to
conserve coastal and marine whales, dolphins and porpoises. In fact,
WWF works on all 8 species of small cetacean which are listed as
threatened (critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable) by IUCN.
To find out more about our work in the area go to:
http://www.panda.org/what_we_do/endan...