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At 8:30pm on Saturday, 27 March, lights will go out in homes, office buildings, town halls and public spaces across the globe – from the world’s tallest building in Dubai, to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge… and in YOUR living room!
Switch off your lights for one hour. That is all it takes for you to partipate along with millions of people in the single largest mass statement on climate change and be part of WWF’s Earth Hour.
Earth Hour is more than just turning off the lights for one hour once a year. When we do this together, when whole cities go dark, we send a strong message to our leaders about the threats of global warming and that we can work together to create a sustainable future for our planet.
Last year, 4,000 cities in 88 countries took part in the international celebration of darkness. This year you can help make it even bigger.
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Year of the Tiger/>
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Hunting and habitat loss have seen tiger populations sink to their lowest level ever, with possibly as few as 3,200 remaining in the wild. If nothing is done now, tigers will disappear from the wild.
The good news is that there is still time to save Asia’s king of the jungle.
Here at WWF, we have launched a campaign that aims to double the population through more habitat protection and anti-poaching activities. By mobilizing our top scientists, partners, governments and local communities, we can make this goal become a reality by the next Chinese Year of the Tiger in 2022.
But this can’t happen without YOUR support.
What you can do to save the tiger:
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Tiger are not the only species in need of protection. So are bluefin tuna, polar bears, great apes and coral reefs and many, many more. Thousands of delegates from around the world are currently meeting in Qatar at a conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, to discuss new proposals on regulating the trade and sustainable use of hundreds of plant and animal species.
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If we carry on living the way we are, pretty soon we are going to need to find a second planet to meet humanity’s growing demand for energy and natural resources.
We need to change the way we live, work and play. And we need to start today.
Through WWF’s EcoGuru, your personal green-life coach, you can calculate your environmental footprint and measure the positive effects of your lifestyle changes. Answer 11 simple questions and find out about the small steps you can take that can help make a big difference to our living planet.
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Coral Triangle through photos/>
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In one blue corner of the planet, forces of nature have crafted an underwater tapestry of corals that remains unrivalled in its richness, importance and sheer beauty. Welcome to the Coral Triangle – a vast area of rich marine life in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Dive in to this unique underwater treasure with the Coral Triangle photographic expedition blog, wallpapers and a special presentation with breath taking images from this amazing underworld garden of Eden.
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While the Climate Change Summit failed to reach a global deal, the resulting Copenhagen Accord can be seen as an important stepping stone towards a future binding agreement.
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In the past 70 years, 3 tiger subspecies have become extinct – the Bali, Javan and Caspian. The 6 remaining subspecies – Amur, Bengal, Indochinese, Malayan, South China and Sumatran – live only in Asia.
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Photo credits: Mediterranean Blue Tuna (c) M. San Felix, Sea Stars (c) Jürgen FREUND / WWF-Canon, Earth Hour (c) WWF, EcoGuru (c) WWF, Tiger (c) National Geographic Stock / Michael Nicols / WWF
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