World Wildlife Fund

Science

Wild World

Explore the Global 200 and Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World

Camera Trap

View images of species in the wild

The Wild Things

Award-winning journalist John Nielsen tells the stories of WWF field teams through this new biweekly podcast series. Listen.

Travel

Travel With WWF

Visit our travel section and choose from many amazing trips! Learn more

Adopt a Polar Bear

Adopt Polar Bear

Make a symbolic Polar Bear adoption to help save some of the world's most endangered animals from extinction and support WWF's conservation efforts.
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Science

Conservation Biology Research

The Conservation Science Program (CSP) research addresses general principles in conservation biology, ecology, biogeography, and resource economics. Our research projects aim not only to inform the work of specific WWF efforts and programs, but also to address issues of broad scientific interest. We also work to evaluate and develop the next generation of scientific tools for conservation, and to adapt them to be most useful to WWF's mission.

We pursue much of this research with collaborators from universities, government agencies, and other NGOs. And we communicate our findings through scientific publications, WWF technical reports, and through this Web site.

Examples of focal research areas for CSP include: