EXCLUSIVE UPDATE FOR SUPPORTERS

SUMMER 2021

RISE OF THE As wild tiger start to recover they need your help to face the future

LAND FOR LIFE APPEAL 60 YEARS OF TAKING ACTION How you’re supporting Maasai 2021 is the start of a vital decade people to thrive with for conservation – and we’re ready CONTENTS Over the next decade, we’ll build 4 TOGETHER, WE DID IT! on our work with governments, Successes you’ve helped us achieve businesses and other around the world organisations to drive the changes “WE’RE RISING TO THE necessary to protect nature. From fixing the global food system to 6 HOPE FOR restoring wildlife , we can Wild tiger numbers are increasing, CHALLENGE OF RESTORING all create a cleaner, fairer future but there’s still work to be done to help people and tigers share the land. By Mike Unwin NATURE BY 2030” 12 WWF IN ACTION A round-up of our latest news 14 60 YEARS OF WWF Our chair of the board of trustees looks ahead to the next 10 years – a critical time for taking action for nature GUEST CONTRIBUTORS BECCI MAY is our senior programme adviser for tigers: “Ten years ago, tigers were at risk of extinction in the wild. Now they’re making a comeback.”

DAVE LEWIS is chair of WWF-UK’s board of trustees. “Ours is a huge agenda,” he says, “but we can make NATURE’S THERAPY a difference when we act together.” The smell of wild garlic. The warmth of summer sun. The rustle of autumn leaves. Did you know experiences GET IN TOUCH like these can support mental [email protected] health? A few years ago I was living in London 01483 426333 chasing my career. I was tired, stressed and WWF-UK Living Planet Centre, Rufford House, COVER: © GETTY | © AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE / FELIPE RODRIGUEZ | CONTENTS: © GETTY | CONTENTS: RODRIGUEZ / FELIPE & WILDLIFE PEOPLE | © AFRICAN © GETTY COVER: disconnected from nature. I discovered the Brewery Road, Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL science showing how being in nature can help reduce stress, anxiety and negativity. MEET THE IMPACT TEAM Editor Liz Palmer [email protected] I began to volunteer and saw how being Editorial executive Holly Towner outdoors helped people improve their mental Senior supporter engagement manager and physical health. I started practising Hannah Crawley mindfulness on nature walks, and realised Supporter engagement manager there was far more to be seen and heard Stephen Osborne than I’d ever noticed before. I wanted to Senior editor Guy Jowett share what I had seen and help others feel For Immediate Media Co. the same benefits. Consultant editor Sophie Stafford Last year, WWF and the Mental Health Art editor Nicole Mooney Foundation produced Thriving With Nature, Production editor Charlotte Martyn a guide to help everyone get outdoors, boost Account manager Katy Hewett their wellbeing and connect with nature. Editorial director Dan Linstead We need nature now more than ever, and Produced in association with Immediate Media Co. www.imcontent.co.uk must strive for a new normal in which we thrive with nature. THANKS TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS You can find out more and read the guide at Will Baldwin-Cantello, Barney Jeffries, wwf.org.uk/thrivingwithnature Dave Lewis, Becci May, Mike Unwin Will Baldwin-Cantello, WWF director of WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU nature-based solutions We’d love to hear your thoughts about this issue of Impact or our work around the world. Please email them to [email protected]

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“WE CAN ALL HELP PROTECT NATURE, AND TOGETHER WE CAN SAVE THE ONE PLACE WE ALL CALL HOME” TOGETHER, WE DID IT! DAVE LEWIS, CHAIR OF OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES Thanks to your support, we can help protect wildlife and wild places. Here The number of are some of the great things supporters Adélie penguins in western Antarctica like you have helped achieve has fallen due to a decline in the abundance of their 1 UGANDA main food, krill YOU HELPED BOOST MOUNTAIN GORILLA BIRTHS For many years, you’ve provided crucial support to the 6 ANTARCTICA

International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) in © CHRIS JOHNSON / WWF AUSTRALIA Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. YOU HELPED PROTECT PENGUINS FROM FISHING IGCP’s work with governments and local communities has helped 2 With your support, we helped create a large ocean sanctuary the mountain gorilla rise steadily to over 1,000 in the Antarctic that will protect the world’s biggest individuals. Last year saw a record 12 gorilla births in just 3 Adélie penguin colony. Through a coalition with other 16 weeks in the Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Area, 1 environmental NGOs and the krill fishing industry, we one of the three sites where mountain gorillas live. 4 secured an agreement to make a 4,500 sq km area of ocean These are the only great apes whose population off-limits to krill fishing all year round. The area, around is increasing. Key to this success is mountain Hope Bay in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, is home to gorilla tourism that ensures the benefits are wildlife including whales, seals and seabirds, all of which

© JEREMY D’ARBEAU D’ARBEAU © JEREMY shared with nearby communities, giving depend on krill. The tiny crustacean plays a key role in the local people a real incentive to help 5 Antarctic food web, but is caught on an industrial scale for protect gorillas. Unfortunately, tourism use in fish feed and food supplements. Several giant colonies

£4.76MThe sum you helped us raise KOALA © GETTY has been hit hard by the pandemic. of Adélie penguins live in the area, but their numbers have Your support will be crucial in helping during our UK Aid Match fallen in recent years, so protecting their food is vital. Now communities bounce back. appeal, including £2 million we’re pushing governments to create an even larger, officially 6 from the UK government designated, marine in the region.

2 3 COLOMBIA 4 KENYA AND TANZANIA 5 AUSTRALIA YOU HELPED GHARIALS RETURN TO INDIA’S RIVERS YOU HELPED Critically endangered gharials in India have received a boost, INDIGENOUS YOU HELPED SUPPORT WILDLIFE GUARDIANS YOU HELPED KOALAS as we’ve helped release 30 juveniles into Hastinapur Wildlife COMMUNITIES You’re helping Maasai communities to coexist and thrive RECOVER FROM BUSHFIRES Sanctuary on the Ganges river. Numbers of these unusual- with wildlife, thanks to your response to our Land for Life Thanks to your support for our emergency looking crocodilians have declined by up to 98% due to PROTECT FORESTS appeal. Maasai people have grazed livestock alongside appeal after last year’s devastating bushfires, © AFRICAN PEOPLE & WILDLIFE / FELIPE RODRIGUEZ and changes to freshwater habitats, and they’re now You’re helping local people in the Colombian Amazon to and elephants for generations, but the land is changing, our colleagues in Australia have launched found only in India and . We worked with Uttar Pradesh conserve their forest home. Local and indigenous communities under pressure from loss, privatisation, rising human the biggest nature regeneration programme Forest Department to set up a reintroduction programme in have been guardians of the Amazon for generations, but they population and expanding agriculture. With less land to share, in the country’s history. Regenerate Australia 2008, which has released 818 captive-bred gharials into the need support to protect their ancestral territories from threats there can be more conflict between people and wildlife. With aims to restore wildlife and habitats hit by the Ganges. One individual we released at the sanctuary was later such as agriculture, mining and climate change. They have the loss of crucial fires, rebuild communities and lead the country spotted around 915km away – the furthest distance recorded a key role to play in conserving protected areas. With your tourism income due towards a sustainable future. Its goals include for reintroduced gharials. Local communities play a vital role support, our colleagues in Colombia have been providing © LUIS BARRETO / WWF-UK to Covid-19, our doubling the number of koalas in eastern Australia

© ALAMY in conserving the and we’ll continue working with them training to strengthen of indigenous territories. appeal raised vital by 2050, and saving or growing two billion trees in and the forest department to raise awareness of the threats to We’ve launched a series on radio and YouTube that provides funds to support the next decade. Work is already under way, planting gharials, and to increase breeding populations. a space to share and learn about the peoples in the Putumayo Maasai communities, more than 100,000 trees to connect key koala habitats. region. You’ve helped local communities living around national secure sustainable This includes trialling seed-planting drones to help restore parks to develop alternative livelihoods, including producing livelihoods and habitat on a large scale. It’s a great example of how we can use honey and growing trees to help restore the forest. protect wildlife. technology and innovation to transform conservation work.

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It was a historic moment in 2010 when all 13 countries For decades, we’ve worked tirelessly to with tiger populations at the time made a commitment to secure a future for wild tigers. With your double wild tiger numbers by 2022, the Chinese Year of the support, we’ve achieved huge successes, Tiger. It remains one of the most ambitious conservation but as we approach a key milestone in tiger goals ever for a single species conservation, we need your help again

he tiger pads along a trail, eyes “The goal has catalysed action,” says caught in the camera flash. The Becci May, our senior programme adviser monochrome image, captured for tigers. She explains how, with your remotely on a camera trap last help, TX2 has provided fresh impetus to November, may be blurry, but WWF’s long-running tiger conservation Twhat’s remarkable is the location. This efforts, strengthening our work to combat tiger is in Ilam, eastern Nepal, and at an the threats tigers face and, alongside altitude of 3,165m. This individual is not partners in 14 different tiger landscapes, only far to the east of its usual range but pioneering ways to help people and also far above it. Indeed, it is the highest- tigers live together. The results have altitude tiger ever recorded in Nepal. been impressive. Not only has the global “Tigers are rewilding themselves,” decline in wild tigers been arrested, but says Stuart Chapman, who heads WWF’s the population had risen to around 3,900 Tigers Alive team. These cats are versatile by 2016. Conservationists are cautiously predators, equally at home at 40°C in optimistic that updated survey results the steamy tropics and -40°C in the will reveal even greater gains since then. snowy forests of the north. If left alone, all they require is suitable habitat and STOPPING THE SLIDE sufficient prey. But while finding tigers in In September 2022, a second summit will unexpected locations might be thrilling, be hosted in Vladivostok, . There, it creates challenges for those trying to we’ll celebrate the many achievements for WORDS: MIKE UNWIN | PHOTOGRAPHY: © NITISH MADAN / WWF INTERNATIONAL / WWF MADAN © NITISH | PHOTOGRAPHY: UNWIN MIKE WORDS: protect them. “If tigers are on the move,” tigers and people, remind everyone we says Stuart, “conservation needs to need a concerted push towards our TX2 keep up with them.” goal and agree what to do next. Tiger conservation has a sobering Nepal’s trail-camera cat highlights a history. By 2010, the global population critical element in tiger conservation: had fallen to an all-time low of as few the need for more corridors of suitable as 3,200 individuals. Under siege from habitat that link one safe space with poaching and habitat destruction, the another. Nobody is sure where this BRINGING BACK THE ROAR world’s largest cat had become one of its individual came from – it may have rarest. “If that decline had continued,” strolled across from India – but in a world explains Stuart, “tigers would have of increasing human pressure, remaining blinked out across Asia.” tiger populations risk becoming trapped Urgent action was needed. That year, in ‘islands’ of protection. To secure a tiger summit was convened involving the species’ long-term future, these all tiger-range governments, the World populations must be able to spread out Bank, WWF and other partners, at which and connect, promoting a healthy gene an ambitious goal was set: to double the flow throughout the broader population. number of tigers in the wild by 2022, the Nepal provides a good example of next Chinese Year of the Tiger. This bold success in this respect. This is the first commitment was dubbed TX2 for short. tiger range country to have pretty much

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In November 2020, this tiger was caught on a camera trap set for red pandas, roaming the mountain forests of ILI-BALKHASH 1. TERAI ARC Ilam at an altitude of | © RPN 3,165m, the highest 51,000 sq km 4. AMUR-HEILONG ever proven sighting INTERNATIONAL / WWF | © SHUTTERSTOCK / NATUREPL.COM MEDVEDEV | © VLADIMIR INTERNATIONAL / WWF KESHARI | © SUYASH / WWF-US RONDEAU | © EMMANUEL / WWF-INDIA TALEGAONKAR © RAHUL This region spans 810km 1.84 million sq km of a big cat in Nepal. of lowlands and foothills The discovery in north-west India and This vast, rugged, cross- highlights the need southern Nepal, and is border region straddles to map all potential home to around 850 tigers. north-eastern and high-elevation Protected areas include the Russian far east. There habitats for tigers India’s Corbett Tiger Reserve are estimated to be around and Nepal’s Bardia and 580 tigers in Russia, and 20–30 in China. The region Chitwan national parks. achieved the TX2 goal in its own right, prey species, such as red and sika deer, is also home to the critically endangered Amur . with the 2009 population of around 120 which will attract tigers to new territories GREATER MANAS tigers soaring to an estimated 235 today. and sustain them once they’re there. Bardia National Park, in particular, When tigers find new territories, they has recovered impressively. Part of the soon encounter people. Today, more richly biodiverse Terai Arc Landscape, than half the world’s human population WESTERN INDIA BRAHMAPUTRA which straddles south-western Nepal lives within the species’ global range, and northern India, this park lies just and in the ‘buffer zones’ around reserves © BRAD FLEET / WWF | © MARIZILDA CRUPPE / WWF-UK | © GETTY | © RAFAEL DE CASTRO BENTO / WWF-BRAZIL | © NASA / WWF-BRAZIL BENTO CASTRO DE | © RAFAEL | © GETTY / WWF-UK CRUPPE | © MARIZILDA / WWF FLEET © BRAD SUNDARBANS across the border from Katarniaghat millions of people make their living from 2. WESTERN Wildlife Sanctuary in India. Between the land. Inevitably, some encounters DAWNA the two lies the Khata corridor. It was between people and the cats are negative. GHATS NILGIRIS TENASSERIM Approx. 18,500 sq km once a degraded and overgrazed area, Tigers predate livestock, especially where but we’ve worked closely with the local they can’t find enough natural prey. This hilly south-west community to restore this 13x6km buffer Occasionally, they even attack humans. Indian region is a Unesco- zone, providing natural resources for the recognised global community and rich habitat for tigers. hotspot. Its 11 LIVING WITH TIGERS “Forest without grassland is bad,” The concerns of local communities are tiger reserves are home to EASTERN PLAINS around 780 wild tigers. says WWF-Nepal senior manager Sabita at the heart of WWF tiger conservation Malla, explaining how a community-run programmes, explains Becci. “We work programme to maintain short, nutritious with local people to help find ways to grazing lawns has benefited prey species protect and improve their livelihoods, 3. CENTRAL INDIA in Khata. Tigers have been quick to take and reduce the risk of conflict.” In turn, Approx. 152,000 sq km advantage of this revitalised corridor, and it’s the communities who are best placed EXPLORE TIGER LANDSCAPES BANJARAN the population in Bardia has surged from to respond constructively to problems as This forested region includes Today, around 83% of wild tigers live in 12 of 14 WWF- TITIWANGSA 18 in 2009 to at least 87 today. they arise and provide solutions. the Satpuda and Maikal supported landscapes. Since 2018 we’ve focused our attention hills at the heart of India. A similar project is achieving success In the buffer zones around Bardia, within these landscapes on 71 priority sites identified as It is home to around 800 in the vast forests of the Amur-Heilong we’re working with the community to having the greatest potential for tiger recovery. These sites are of India’s tigers, largely in CENTRAL region on the Russia-China border. Here, prevent problems by using predator-proof called ‘heartlands’. Together they’re home to around a quarter such well-known reserves as SUMATRA Russia’s Land of the Leopard National pens for livestock. Better mapping with of the world’s tiger population. WWF-UK supports heartlands Kanha, Pench and Tadoba. Park, home to most of the world’s Amur drones and camera traps has also helped across four of the 14 landscapes (numbered on the map). SOUTH tigers, is contiguous with the North-east us identify problem areas and focus SUMATRA China Amur Tiger and Leopard National resources accordingly. Community-led, KEY Park. We’re working with Chinese rapid-response teams now act quickly partners to identify and protect tiger to deal with conflict incidents, helping Tiger population increasing* Historical tiger range WWF-UK supported landscapes dispersal routes between the two parks. affected villagers repair any damage and Camera traps are revealing increasing file claims for compensation. Interim Tiger population stable* Current tiger range Proposed reintroduction sites evidence of tigers on the Chinese side. relief schemes provide affected families Tiger population decreasing* WWF-supported landscapes To encourage this natural dispersal, we’re with immediate funds, and help quell helping to protect and reintroduce key anger that might lead to deadly reprisals.

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“IF WE CAN Securing the future for tigers is about GET LIVING WITH more than just saving an iconic species. If tigers are thriving in the wild, it’s an In January, WWF-India assisted in translocating indicator that the ecosystem is healthy a male and female tiger from Corbett Tiger TIGERS RIGHT, WE’LL too. That’s good news for wildlife, Reserve to the western sector of Rajaji Reserve, people and our planet where tigers haven’t bred since 2006. We hope they will start a viable breeding population HAVE THE FORMULA

HELP US SECURE A FUTURE / WWF-INDIA UMARIYA © SIDDHANT Meanwhile, the community receives FOR SUCCESSFUL 50% of park revenue and benefits FOR WILD TIGERS from ecotourism enterprises such as CONSERVATION OF With your support we’ve made homestays. Villagers help organise great progress, but we need to do anti-poaching patrols, monitor wildlife ALL CARNIVORES” more to reach our goal by the end and restore the forest through replanting of next year. The tiger summit next – which, in turn, provides them with September will provide us with a more natural resources, from firewood unique and critical opportunity.

to wild mushrooms. It’s a people-centred |

Will you help us bring back the tiger’s / WWF MEDVEDEV / VLADIMIR | © NATUREPL.COM / WWF-UK / WHISKAS AGENCY GINKGO / THE WYK VAN © GARY conservation approach that benefits both There’s also an ambitious plan to return tiger landscapes with improved training the lockdowns. We’re working to support So is TX2 on track? Will we be able roar by making a donation? wildlife and the community. tigers to Kazakhstan. and equipment, including new tracking those communities worst affected. to announce that tiger numbers have But reintroduction is expensive technology. We’re also helping range TX2 is perhaps the most ambitious doubled in September 2022? There’s £10 could help compensate local RETURN OF THE TIGER and will always be an extreme option. states to share their experiences, while single-species international conservation still much to do before we’ll know, but people when tigers prey on Given the right conditions, tigers can “The aim is to avoid reaching the point promoting demand-reduction education programme ever undertaken. But are the the signs are positive. “We’ve been on their livestock, reducing the return to areas they once called home where we have no other options,” to reduce the illegal market. money and resources that are needed a remarkable journey since 2010,” says risk of retaliatory attacks under their own steam. “If we remove explains Becci. So our priorities remain In the past year, the Covid-19 justified? Stuart points to the tiger’s Becci, “and shown success is possible.” £20 could help establish the threats, the cats can come back restoring landscapes, resolving conflict pandemic has also raised new iconic historical and cultural significance Stuart agrees: “We’ve demonstrated that, sustainably run village by themselves,” explains Becci. But in and controlling poaching. To date, concerns. Social and economic worldwide. “If you can save the biggest with the right ingredients, we can have a homestays to help improve some places, especially where human the TX2 campaign can report some challenges across southern Asia have of all cats,” he says, “then surely that’s world with wild tigers.” people’s income while keeping development has created insurmountable outstanding successes, with the freefall forced large numbers of people to the gold standard for conservation.” tiger habitat healthy barriers, they need a helping hand. of tiger numbers arrested globally, and return from cities to their rural There’s also its ecological TOGETHER, WE CAN In India, home to over half the world’s indications that populations are stable or homes. In importance. “Tigers are a keystone Either way, TX2 is not the end of the £50 could help train an anti- wild tigers, scientists have identified increasing in nine of the 12 WWF priority Nepal’s Terai species,” adds Becci. “Their presence story. The threats tigers face today will poaching team, enabling 15,000 sq km of prime tiger real estate tiger landscapes (excluding reintroduction Arc, with indicates a healthy ecosystem: not disappear overnight. But successes them to continue to monitor that has the potential to support a further sites). But the principal threats still exist. homestay they determine the so far prove that, with your support, wild tigers, remove snares and 3,900 individuals. We hope habitat In south-east Asia, tigers are tourism on numbers of everything tigers can continue to recover in number tackle poaching corridors will allow tigers to repopulate struggling. Over the past two decades, hold, local else.” But while large and return to lands they once roamed. £100 could help support more many of these places organically. they have become extinct in , communities carnivores may be vital Tiger conservation, more than tiger heartland communities But in the short term, reintroductions and, most recently, Lao PDR, are struggling. for a healthy planet, anything, is about proving that we can to develop plans to restore are giving them a head start. Inspired while in and their Chitwan National Park recorded they can be a challenge to have a world where people and wildlife and sustainably manage the by Russia’s Evreiskaya province, where population trends are uncertain. a surge in illicit logging during protect – partly because of can live together. TX2 is simply a way- forests on which they – and reintroduction has established a thriving Poaching by specialised global syndicates the traditional antagonism from rural marker on a long journey towards that wild tigers – rely population of around 20 tigers, two is the main cause, with demand for tiger communities. “If we can get living goal. And tigers are capable of long radio-collared individuals have been body parts continuing to fuel the illegal Over 7.5 million people live in with tigers right,” explains Stuart, journeys, as that wandering individual Please consider donating today at reintroduced to Rajaji Reserve. They are wildlife trade. Snaring takes a heavy toll. Nepal’s Terai Arc and depend on “we’ll have the formula for successful in Nepal proved. They just need our help wwf.org.uk/tiger-roar the first of a group of five (see above). So we’re supporting rangers across all our its forests for food and fuel conservation of all carnivores.” along the way.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

How we’re building a better world for wildlife and people

LISTEN – THE WILD IS CALLING! We’re excited to announce our new podcast, Call of the Wild. In each episode, actor, broadcaster and WWF ambassador Cel Spellman explores the threats facing our planet with the help of a wildlife expert or famous face, and finds out what we can do to help. The first episode © TONY FOSTER © TONY features Sir David Attenborough! To subscribe, search for Call of the Illustrator Amita Sevellaraja Wild wherever you listen to podcasts. helped promote our Just Imagine competition by Join the conversation on social using The World Beneath creating this ocean-themed Textiles artwork #CallOfTheWild and share what artwork to inspire other by Sophie Sidhu is one of the many you’re doing to help the planet. artists to take part stunning entries. The competition © WWF INTL / WWF INTL © WWF has inspired workshops, discussions A LOCKDOWN ‘WILDLIFE WALK’ DIARY and an outpouring of creativity During lockdown last year, “It gave me a focus whereby I could JUST IMAGINE A BETTER FUTURE artist Tony Foster spent his time achieve something worthwhile every day. recording the nature around his The longer it went on, the more beautiful We’re working with artists to lifestyle choices? Would we be living home in Tywardreath, Cornwall. it became,” he says. The resulting visualise a greener future differently, communicating differently, Now he’s giving back to the natural artwork, Lockdown Diary – 56 Days, is Art is a vital part of imagining and and have a better understanding of how world by donating over £55,000 to now available as a limited-edition, signed building a thriving future where nature to live in harmony with our planet? WWF and other wildlife charities, and numbered print. Tony hopes to sell is at the heart of our decisions. Last year In order to provide a platform for raised by selling prints of his work all 500 to raise money for charity. we launched Just Imagine, a competition artists to bring people together and Journeying to the world’s wildest “I had just watched Sir David inviting creatives from across the UK to spark these conversations around the places has always inspired Tony’s art. Attenborough’s brilliant but terrifying visualise what our future could look like, solutions to the climate and nature Last March, he was preparing to canoe programmes on the extinction of WWF PRESIDENT’S FUND and help others to imagine a better world crisis, we launched the Just Imagine Utah’s Green river for an exhibition species,” he explained. “I realised this is FOR NATURE through their art. competition. We asked individuals, arts in the US. But when lockdown began, the most pressing problem of our time, We were deeply saddened by the This year we have a unique collectives and artist networks across The he decided to focus on subjects closer and we must all do what we can. I decided passing of HRH The Duke of opportunity to restore the balance the UK to take inspiration from, and winning to home. “I normally go for an early to raise some money for the charities Sir Edinburgh, the first President of between people and nature, and move respond to, Sir David Attenborough’s entries are morning walk before my day’s work David and Professor Sir Ghillean Prance WWF-UK, and then our Global

© AMITA SEVELLARAJA (@VOLAPARDUS) towards a more resilient and sustainable film A Life on Our Planet. In the now on display in an online exhibition, in the studio, so I turned that into [botanist and former director of Kew President Emeritus. Prince Philip was society. And with the UK hosting documentary, he reflects on the changes and we’ll be inspiring others to take an experiment to see if I could find Gardens] suggested are most effective.” a tireless conservationist, and to the Climate Change to the natural world during his lifetime, action through their art. During the something interesting to record in words On their recommendation, he chose honour his commitment to WWF, Conference of the Parties (COP26) in and presents his hopeful vision of how virtual launch of the exhibition we and pictures each day,” Tony explains. WWF, the Rainforest Trust UK and we’ve set up the WWF President’s Glasgow in November, this is a critical we might redress the balance through a brought together diverse voices to kick- On his walks, he sketched birds the Cornwall Wildlife Trust to receive Fund for Nature. Thanks if you’ve year for environmental action. shared appreciation of nature. start the conversation about solutions to and butterflies, flowers and feathers, profits from sales. We’re hugely grateful already donated. If you’d like to give Now more than ever, it’s important We received 640 creative submissions, the climate crisis, through discussion on bark, shells, rocks, beetles – whatever for Tony’s support. If you’re interested in memory of Prince Philip, your to have conversations about the type of ranging from visual arts and illustration art and community engagement. caught his attention. Back at the studio, in owning one of his original artworks, donation will support essential future we’d like to see. What would a to fashion and textiles, poetry and he converted his notes, sketches and prints are available from his website conservation as well as bursaries for future look like where we celebrate and creative writing. From these a panel of You can visit the exhibition at: souvenirs from that morning into a small for £345 plus £14 post and packing. young environmentalists: wwf.org. protect nature through new laws and judges selected 12 worthy winners. wwf.org.uk/just-imagine painting – a series of 56 in all. Visit www.tonyfoster.co.uk uk/presidents-fund-for-nature

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Impact ANNIVERSARY SERIES: A wilder Ingleborough will Ingleborough wilder A to restoreto reconnect and a patchwork wildlife-friendly of habitats woodlands, including heaths, grasslands. bogs and support a greater diversity of wildlife, store carbon, help to reduce flooding and boost the nature through economy rural investment. local and tourism TOGETHER WE CAN TAKE Ingleborough is the second- the is Ingleborough with farmers, working We’re We need everyone – the public, businesses and governments in the This year, with your support, we’re launching some truly ambitious WILD INGLEBOROUGH In the UK, we’re involved habitat restoration,in regenerative and farming nature tourism through the partnership Ingleborough Wild with Natural England, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, the University of CarbonLeeds, of Bank United and the Woodland Trust. highest peak in the Yorkshire Dales, and we want it to be a beacon of nature recovery. restoreThe to vision the is landscape from the River Ribble 723m the summit,towards in a way that will benefit people, climate.nature and landowners communities and programmes to create healthy, sustainable landscapes healthy, balance that create to programmes the needsof people and wildlife while providing nature-based solutions change. climate to Last year taught us to appreciate the wildlife on our doorsteps – birdsong, wildflowers, autumn leaves. Nature has supported us in these challenging times, but it’s under threat like never before UK and overseas – to act. Working together, we can put nature at the heartof all the decisions we make in our everyday lives. WE CAN’TWE RESTORE NATURE ALONE. THE LEAD TO PUT RIGHT THINGS at the past, present and future WWF and of some present past, and the at of the amazing successes you’ve helped us achieve helped amazing the you’ve successes of To mark our 60th anniversary, we’re taking a look taking a look we’re anniversary, 60th our mark To

David David In the coming years, we’ll need to meet new Ours is a huge agenda, and we’re only the at When people ask me why I joined could be recovering. could We be well on the way to the greener, cleaner, fairer future we need. canWe all help protect nature, and together we can save the one place we all call home. what to eat, businesses considering what to sell, or politicians voting on environmental laws. and demanding challenges and increase our impact. determined I’m all of WWF’s work will focus on driving ambition to cut emissions, restore nature and make the changes needed to the global food system to ensure we can live sustainably on our shared planet. This must be a decade of action. start of an ambitious journey. But we can make a difference when we act together – we’ve woken our leaders to up climate change, brought rare species back from the brink and made sacrifices during Covid-19 lockdowns. By 2030, wildlife Wild Ingleborough partnership is an(opposite) example of how we’ll do that. Without increased cross- sector support, we can’t deliver the huge shifts needed to help nature recover. WWF, I tell them: watch “Just Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet and you’ll understand.” have a unique We opportunity to make an impact in the next years,10 and must seize the chance to drive change. In the film – produced by Silverback Films and WWF – Sir David lit the touchpaper for action in 2021 and the years to come. for It’s us all to respond, whether as individuals deciding project page and (see 5), we’ll take the lead in putting things right – the

1961 – 2021 1961 – WWF YEARS OF YEARS chair of our board of trustees, how of board explains our of chair , Summer 2021

we’re committed to applying our expertise to s WWF marks its 60th anniversary, the challenges facing the planet have never been more serious. The next decade will be crucial in determining our future, and

Impact But we can’t restore nature alone. With your Our ambitious strategy aims to meet this challenge We knowWe the devastating impact humans can have | why 2021 is the start the is a vitalwhy 2021 of action for decade we’re rising to the challenge of restoring nature, and nature, restoring of challenge the to rising we’re Dave Lewis Dave A and bolder collaborations, such as the Land for Life support, we’ll strengthen with our work governments, businesses, other NGOs and the media in greater turn the tide of nature’s loss by 2030. riches, so WWF’s focus will be on getting maximum ambition from those global agreements, helping to hosting the second two of meetings. without Words action restore won’t our planet and its natural framework to tackle nature loss and to raise global ambition to tackle climate change, with the UK We’re in a vitalWe’re year the at start of a critical decade. In 2021, world leaders will meet to agree a new and species, while working with communities and indigenous peoples. A GLOBAL TURNING POINT fair global food system; avert dangerous climate change; and protect and restore threatened habitats with renewed focus, urgency and impact. Everything we do must address the need for a sustainable and climate, and a nature crisis across the land and sea. to meet the needs of a growing human population against a backdrop of a dramatically changing way we live threatens the survival of all life on Earth. Over the next decade we face a triple challenge: pandemic, show just how fragile our world is. The on nature and the climate. The recent fires in the Amazon and Australia, twinned with the Covid-19 ensure the best possible outcome.

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