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About
Us
Our
Aims
One World Wildlife is a recently formed British based conservation
charity that undertakes and supports, through private donations and corporate
sponsorship, ecological research, sustainable development initiatives
and environmental education projects. We are managed by a highly experienced
and professional team of academic environmentalists and businessmen who
are dedicated to this work. Our organisation is cost-efficient, relying
primarily on volunteers. Our overheads are thus reduced to an absolute
minimum and this factor ensures that the majority of our funds are channelled
directly where they are urgently required. Our conservation strategy focuses
on the importance of creating a balance between ecological and economic
concerns. This realistic approach ensures that threatened and degraded
habitats throughout the world are protected for the benefit of both wildlife
and the local human inhabitants whose long-term survival invariably depends
upon it. The working conservation model we have developed has been successfully
applied in regions as far afield as South Africa,
Tahiti, South America,
mainland Europe and Great
Britain.
We
are committed to expanding our ecological interests into other regions
of the world whose ecosystems are similarly being threatened by unsustainable
development and exploitation.
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Our
Method
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| Coelacanth,
Latimeria chalumnae, type specimen as displayed
in the Museum of East London, South Africa |
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| Scarlet
tiger moth Callimorpha dominula. Image courtesy
of Abingdon Naturalist's Society |
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| Tawny
owl, Strix aluco, nestling |
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One World Wildlife is able to draw on a worldwide network of
leading scientists, environmentalists and specialists in many fields
and is, therefore, able to develop its projects using the most up
to date information, research and techniques. We are especially
interested in supporting ecological projects that result in a productive
coexistence between local communities and their surrounding environments.
Our approach ensures that ecosystems are not preserved at the expense
of the needs of the local people, but are maintained and preserved
in a manner that benefits those communities economically, in a sustainable
way and in the long-term. We have achieved this by developing a
sophisticated model that is simple to implement and which has proven
to be highly effective within the regions that it has been applied.
This model, upon which our conservation strategy is based:-
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Is
non-exploitative. |
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Is
implemented by and in the interests of local communities and
their futures in a cooperative and self-sustaining manner. |
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Provides
the initial impetus to develop and preserve local resources
and the environment. |
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Identifies
the requirements of local communities in order to develop
(in a sustainable way) local environmental assets. |
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Generates
income from projects to ensure economic self-sufficiency of
local communities thus eliminating the need for continual
dependency on outside funding. |
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Our
Resources
One World Wildlife is particularly proud of the cost-efficiency of
its operation. The funds we raise are targeted in specific areas including:
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Using
up to date scientific data to identify the most seriously threatened
ecosystems and their associated wildlife, or facilitating the
collection of such information if none is currently available. |
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Supporting
research projects into endangered ecosystems and the wildlife
that depends upon them in order to gather information that will
contribute to future ecological programmes. |
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Establishing
education programmes and providing the resources that enable
local people to appreciate and exploit their environment in
a more sustainable way thus protecting it for future generations. |
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Establishing
an infrastructure to generate a sustainable income from the
resources of local environments which benefits both those who
live there as well as the local ecosystems. |
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| Blue-footed
boobies, Sula nebouxi. Image courtesy R. Everett |
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| African elephant family group around a waterhole |
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