image

Thanks

The World Wildlife Foundation wants to thank all persons who helped us with developing this website. This page will be constantly updated with other supporters of our organization.

The photography used on all our pages is subject to copyright, must not be reproduced without permission and has been provided by:…

Top of Page

Mediterranean monk seal

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Phocidae
Genus: Monachus

Size:
Length of male: 240 cm
Length of female: 238 cm
Weight of male: 315 kg
Weight of female: 300 kg

Status:
Classified as Critically Endangered (CR) by the IUCN Red List 2007. Listed on Appendix I of CITES and Appendices I and II of the Convention on Migratory Species …

Top of Page

Empty

Empty

Top of Page

Animals

Top of Page

Action Centre

From how you choose to live, to when you decide to get involved, to what you do to help endangered species are the steps that make you different from the rest.

You can make a difference today by supporting an animal cause or a land programme through donations and/or …

Top of Page

Compensation Programmes

Compensation Programmes

In addition to the land programmes that provide a safe environment for the endangered animals to live and breed, the World Wildlife Foundation also promotes compensation programmes that will protect them from the hostile human element.

Many of the endangered animals, such as the Patagonian Puma of Argentina and Chile, …

Top of Page

Land Programmes

Land programmes are intended to provide a safe, natural habitat within the wilds where particular endangered animals can breed and increase in numbers. The land has to have the correct climate and the correct ecosystem with which to provide an adequate source of food. The land must also be protected …

Top of Page

Patagonian Land Programme

Urgent Land Programme

World Wildlife Foundation needs to buy land such as this to protect pumas, eagles, condors, armadillos, guanaco, pudu (the world’s smallest deer), wild boar, red deer, skunk, wolves and wildcat.

Overview
Steppe is the typical environment of most of Patagonia, & covers a huge area of land. It is one …

Top of Page

Saving the Southern Puma

Urgent Current Programme

Southern Pumas in Argentina & Chile are at GREAT risk. The population of Pumas is declining alarmingly.

Our current programme is dealing with this by enrolling the landowners of Argentina and Chile to help preserve the Puma despite the depredations the puma makes by killing sheep and guanacos which …

Top of Page

animal 2

Site update in progress. Check back soon.

Top of Page
Partners sponsor