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World Wide Fund for Nature

Conservation Agency

Gland, Switzerland

World Wide Fund for Nature
Avenue du Mont Blanc , Gland 1196 Switzerland
Director: Claude Martin Phone: 41 (22) 3649111 Fax: 41 (22) 36435358
Affiliations: Fundacion Vida Silvestre, Argentina; Fundacion Natura, Ecuador; Nigerian Conservation Foundation; DHKD, Turkey; Fudena, Venezuela

Mission: The WWF aims to conserve nature and ecological processes by: preserving genetic, species and ecosystem diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable both now and in the longer term; and promoting actions to reduce pollution and the wasteful exploitation and consumption of resources and energy. WWF's ultimate goal is to stop, and eventually reverse, the accelerating degradation of our planet's natural environment, and to help build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

Number of Staff: Total (130)

Key Personnel: Claude Martin, Director General; Jorgen Randers, Deputy Director General; Chiew Chong, Finance and Administration Director; Peter Dickinson, Program Services and Evaluation Director; Dawood Ghaznavi, Asia/Pacific Regional Program Director; Pamela Grant, Human Resources Development Director; Christopher Hails, Program Director; Richard Hamilton, National Organization Training Support Director; Peter Kramer, Network Development Director; Mario Fetz, International Development Director; Arun Chacko, Communications Director; Gordon Shepherd, Director of Treaties and Advocacy Coordination; Magnus Sylven, Europe/Middle East Regional Program Director; Deborah Denhardt, Membership Services; Andy Pattison, Information Assistant, 3649558

Web Site: http://www.panda.org

Publications: "WWF News" (bimonthly); "WWF Features"

Entry created: 1998-03-30
Review requested: 2007-02-27
Entry last reviewed: 1998-05-27

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