Climate change appeal
Make history this year
Our planet is in peril. Research has shown that climate change is already happening sooner and faster than scientists had previously predicted.
And its effects across the world are huge. Already in the Arctic, sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate. The majestic polar bear, which depends on the ice to survive, is increasingly at risk.
So we need to save the Arctic to save the polar bear. And to rescue this great wilderness, we need to stop climate change.
Donate to WWF today and help us tackle global threats like climate change.
There is hope on the horizon. In December this year, governments of more than 190 countries meet at the UN’s Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen to agree a new global deal setting out how the world will tackle the growing climate crisis.
Of course, the delicate Arctic is not just home to the polar bear – it’s also one of the most important regions on the planet. That’s because it helps regulate the world’s climate and, right now, it’s warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world.
The most recent computer models now predict an ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer could become a reality as early as 2013 – a situation not seen for more than one million years.
We’re gathering cutting edge science to influence those in power. WWF has part-funded explorer Pen Hadow’s mission to measure the sea ice at the North Pole. In February of this year, he set out on a journey across 700 miles of the Arctic to measure the thickness of the ice. He and his team are travelling – often in darkness – across the inhospitable terrain, swimming through once frozen areas, pulling a sleigh behind them that carries a £200,000 radar to take the vital measurements.
By making a donation now, you could help to fund WWF’s groundbreaking climate change research, in turn helping to preserve the Arctic and its most charismatic resident – the polar bear.
How your donation could help
£10 could help us take a blood sample from a polar bear, giving scientists the hard facts to build a convincing case about climate change.
£20 could help fund polar expeditions like that currently led by Pen Hadow enabling explorers to bring back evidence of exactly what is happening in the Arctic.
£30 could help us present our research at the climate change conference in Copenhagen and fight for the best possible global deal for people and nature
