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Government Partnerships
U.S. Department of State - Projects
Since 1995, the State Department (DOS) has supported more than 10 WWF projects directly or indirectly through other organizations. The DOS’ mission is to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community. Currently DOS and WWF collaborate on four projects.
Project highlights of this partnership include the following:
Turtle Bycatch, Southwestern Pacific
WWF is working with the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs to improve longline fishing in the Pacific with a focus on distant fishing water fleets. The project is reducing bycatch through the use of circle hooks. Fishing trials with a Hong Kong-based fishing company out of the Philippines began in February of 2007 and continued with a Taiwanese-owned vessel out of Costa Rica later in the year.
CAFTA-DR Wildlife Trade Control
WWF has been working through DOS and in partnership with USFWS to conduct a gap analysis of capacity needs within the Central American Free Trade Agreement- The Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) countries to regulate wildlife trade and mitigate illegal activity. Following on this analysis, WWF will implement capacity building to fill the identified gaps.
Saving the tiger - and other Asian big cats - requires a large-scale effort to stop wildlife trade.
© WWF-Canon / Vladimir FILONOV
Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT)
WWF participates as a member of the State Department’s CAWT initiative. CAWT was initiated in 2005 by Claudia McMurray, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. CAWT is a voluntary public-private coalition of both governments and organizations with a common purpose to address the ever growing threats to wildlife from poaching and illegal trade.
Heart of Borneo
WWF is supporting development of the tri-national action plan to deliver on the recently signed Heart of Borneo Declaration to protect the forest resources of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia. Read more.
