World Wide Fund for Nature

In just over four decades, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has become one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. With almost five million supporters distributed throughout five continents, WWF has a global network active in over 90 countries and can safely claim to have played a major role in the evolution of the international conservation movement.

Since 1985, WWF has invested over US$1.165 million in more than 11,000 projects in 130 countries. All of these play a part in the campaign to stop the accelerating degradation of the earth's natural environment and to help its human inhabitants to live in greater harmony with nature. The different programs of the organization focus on the following topics: climate change, forests, freshwater, marine, policy, species, and toxics.

Local interests are taken care of by national organizations. Special eco-regions such as the arctic are handled through programs such as the WWF Arctic Programme, which was formed in 1992. This coordination unit was created to serve as a focal point for arctic conservation issues and to promote WWF's activities in the arctic, originating from its national organizations in Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States as well as the Iceland Nature Conservation Association and a program office in Russia.

Please check out the website of the program, as it's a valuable resource of information: www.ngo.grida.no/wwfap

Participation in the Pole Track expedition has been coordinated through the WWF's Dutch office. WWF Netherlands and Marc Cornelissen started working together in 1996 during an earlier expedition to the Geographic North Pole. Since that time, Marc Cornelissen has aimed his expeditions to the poles to be a clear call to the world to solve the problem of the greenhouse effect. Marc Cornelissen is a preferred supplier to the WWF Netherlands for projects that explore the world and its value to mankind.

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