How we can fight climate change
There’s still time to save our one shared home, together we can fight for a better future. Here’s what we’re doing and what you can do to help.
What we’re doing
Over the 60 years we’ve been around we’ve seen the devastating impact that climate change is having on our one shared home.
It can feel overwhelming, but by working as part of a global network with people, governments and business across the world, we’ve also seen that there’s hope.
Together, we can create a better future for people, nature and wildlife.
We're helping by...
Restoring the lungs of our earth for tigers and people
Climate change is causing more extreme weather, storms, floods and wildfires and putting tigers precious forest habitats under threat.
At WWF we’re working with governments and local people to help protect and restore these forests areas, forests that not only provide home to tigers but also provide livelihoods to people and are vital in absorbing harmful carbon from the atmosphere.
Precious tiger habitats also overlap nine of Asia’s watersheds, supplying water to over 800 million people. Healthy forests in these river areas play an important role in reducing the risk of devastating floods and droughts, as well as storing huge amounts of harmful carbon.
Reducing climate pressures on people and snow leopards
As temperatures climb and climate change grows more intense, it increases the pressure on snow leopards and people.
For the many people who share their mountain home with the snow leopard, its habitat is an essential source of food and medicine, and wood for shelter, heat and fuel.
We’re working with communities on farming that’s more resistant to climate change, and building livelihoods that are sustainable – so they will provide for the next generation.
Planting seagrass to help fight climate change
Seagrass provides a home for a vast array of sea life, but did you know it can also help in the fight against climate change?
Even though seagrass only covers 0.2% of the seafloor, it absorbs 10% of the ocean’s carbon each year, making it an incredible tool in the fight against climate change.
Together, with Sky Zero and Swansea University, we’ve planted 750,000 seagrass seeds which will grow into an ocean meadow - fighting climate change and providing a home for marine life.
Working with communities to protect the amazon rainforest
The Amazon is home to millions of people and species, and it’s also one of our biggest allies in fighting climate change – but it’s being destroyed.
With your help, WWF are supporting communities by providing drone training. The drones will be used as a tool to help monitor protected areas, deforestation alerts and land grabbing – helping to protect their home and the trees that are vital in fighting climate change.
How you can help
Donate to the climate crisis fund
Donate to our Climate Crisis Fund to help support the vital work that WWF is doing in the fight against climate change. Your money could go towards:
- Planting trees in areas that have been destroyed to restore our life-giving forests
- Providing equipment needed to replant seagrass in UK coastal waters and marine habitats
- Supporting communities in the Amazon with the technology to better protect the rainforest – their home, and a crucial ally in fighting climate change
- Protecting polar regions for penguins, polar bears and people.
Adopt a better future
By taking out an animal adoption you’re protecting something so much bigger.
It’s about more than saving one animal. It’s about saving its home, our home. It’s about keeping the climate stable, the rains coming and the grass growing – for people, nature and wildlife.
With your help, we can protect and restore wild places across the world, and we can fight climate change – for wildlife and for us all.
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