...Cultural Creatures A world without animals is a world we would not live in. As they help us in many ways, we should help them back. All over the world, beautiful creatures are being killed by us humans, and it needs to stop sooner rather than later. Imagine you went on a beautiful African safari expecting to see your favorite animal, the elephant. As you go on you start to wonder where all of the towering creatures are, when you spot the body of one laying down on the ground dead with its tusks cut out. African and Asian elephants and rhinos are at risk of becoming extinct due to unnecessary poaching. Game hunters kill these magnificent creatures that are a gift to nature just for their horns or tusks. Tusks are used for their ivory and horns...
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...According to the WWF 2012 financial statements, WWF received over $24.2 million dollars in revenue in the 2012 financial year through various sources. The largest source of income being individual supporters (61%). followed by legacies and corporations (22%),. The WWF uses many fundraising techniques in order to promote the organisation and realise funds from individuals. These include community events, supporter status offered for monthly donations, endangered animal adoption programs, bequests,workplace giving and Business partnerships. WWF engages with various corporations to develop integrated marketing campaigns that enable companies and their customers to show their support and to contribute actively to conservation. These collaborations are specifically designed to increase public awareness about WWF and to generate revenue for WWF’s global conservation efforts. The WWF states that "We establish company partnerships to improve the sustainability of supply chains and promote sector-wide action, whilst also promoting sustainable commodity investment within the finance sector." The WFF is in partnership with many well-known brands such as AVON and Coca-Cola and has recently established an alliance with CARE. Bureau of statistics concludes that 53% of Australian adults are concerned about the environment, yet only 14% made donations to an environmental cause. This leaves opportunity for WWF to increase its marketing strategy and improve its public message. In support of this...
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...We were asked to find an article on e-business and intellectual property and review it. I picked the World Wildlife Fund and World Wrestling Federation. They both said they had the copyright on the initials of WWF and went to court to fight over it. The company WWF has a big panda on it as a logo and decided to take the wrestling company to court where they were forced to change their name to World Wrestling Entertainment. The legal battle started in 1989 when wrestling applied for a trademark on its name. In 1979 when Titan Sports decided to reorganize the wrestling business they changed the name of the company to WWF. In 1961, The World Wildlife Fund trademarked the logo WWF. The two companies came to an agreement on how to use the logo, but in the early 1990s the wrestlers were thought to have violated the deal. In 1994 they came to another agreement on how to use the logo until the wrestling company opened up a website called wwf.com and started selling WWF products. The fund decided to sue in British court to have them change their name and won for breach of trademark. When two companies make a deal on how to use a trademark logo the ethical thing is to stick to what you agreed on and not do something else. When the wrestling company decided to open a website to sell their merchandise they did the unethical thing by breaking their agreement with the Wildlife...
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...World Wildlife Fund Essay Outline I. Introduction [Intro] a. San Diego Zoo panda cancer story b. Gao Gao c. developed a plan for reducing human activities in habitat areas, conserving the bamboo forests, and maintaining captive populations of pandas d. In order to remain balance in our world between human and animal, the World Wildlife Fund is dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wild lands II. Well over 200,000 plants and animals in the United States are listed as threatened or endangered [Scale: 1-200,000] a. At least 10,000 out of 1,000,000 species go extinct each year b. 5689 endangered species in US, 1343 endangered species globally c. 1/10 species go extinct each year III. WWF raise’s millions towards protecting species, habitats, and communities [Fundraising] a. Panda Nation is the significant method of fundraising b. Earth Day Clean Up a. 1. Ongoing for the past 11 years and continues this year b. 2. On April 22 staff members from WWF and science students at the Francis-Stevens Education Campus help clean the school grounds and plant new gardens c. Revenue last year reach about $266.3 million c. Funding provides giant pandas with an increase in legally patrolled habitat area, patrolling against poaching, illegal logging, and encroachment, and continued research/monitoring d. Like giant pandas, tigers receive benefits from this funding, by directing these funds towards building...
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...There is a growing environmental awareness amongst stakeholders, individuals and communities in Thailand. This increase in knowledge and awareness has been, by and large, the result of campaigns and education programmes run by major public interest groups concerned with the environment. These include non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the international, regional and national levels, as well as groups concerned with the empowerment of marginalized sections of society, such as women, indigenous peoples, and youth groups, and other community based organizations. . Major public interest groups are increasingly contributing efforts towards sustainable development through participation, advocacy, demonstration projects, monitoring and research, as well as cooperation and networking with other NGOs and government departments. This chapter reviews the contributions made by such groups to the promotion of environmental knowledge, awareness and action in the region. Traditionally, community based organizations played an important role in the management of common property resources such as forests and fisheries in the Asian and Pacific Region. Although over successive years their role was reduced by governments in some countries, recent years have seen a re-emergence of community involvement and the development and growth of NGOs, youth, women and indigenous people’s groups and associations of farmers and businessmen. NGOs have, in particular, played an important role in raising...
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...because the patterns in nature are a result of interactions between genetic diversity and the environment’. Source: WWF - http://www.worldwildlife.org/bsp/publications/africa/181/Chap_2.html I am reminded of the John Muir quote “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” To me that is how the world is, all interconnected by invisible threads- we never understand the depth of impact when one thread is broken until it is too late. Biodiversity and ecosystems around the world are being threatened at an alarming rate due to several environmental changes and by us humans. As well as the many moral and ethical reasons to preserve it for its own sake, biodiversity and ecosystems bring to us several services and resources such as food, water, pest control, medicines and moreover regulates the world’s climate. As a result of most of our food and necessities coming from these ecosystems, it is essential for the current and future generations that our biodiversity remains intact. Humans must ensure that this happens with sustainable development, the pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come. However as there isn’t a balance, the ecosystems are quickly declining around the world, animals and plants are affected as they no longer have their natural habitat...
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...cause marketing by buying a Happy Meal. Cause marketing (also referred to as cause-related marketing) is a type of marketing that involves the cooperative efforts of a “for profit” business and a nonprofit organization for mutual benefit. According to adage.com, the field of cause marketing began in 1983, when American Express raised money for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. Adage.com states that “During a 3 month period, American Express offered to contribute one cent for each card transaction and $1 for each new card issued and backed the offer with a substantial media campaign.” An article on about.com entitled Cause Related Marketing: What you Need to Know goes on to say that “the results are now legendary. The Restoration Fund raised over $1.7 million and American Express card use rose over 27%. New card applications increased 45% over the previous year”...
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...to make money. Although there are several laws to protect certain animals, this is a horrible act to any animal. Especially for the animals that are already endangered. Poachers minimizing these animal’s numbers for their own pleasure is not good. People who are against poaching should do what they can to stop this act from escalating, or there will not be any balance on this world. Animals are being killed every day from illegal hunting or capturing, that is called poaching; it’s getting worse and worse in certain places and we should do whatever we can to try and stop it. Poaching happens all around the world. Mainly in parts of the world where there is more game to hunt and a lot of money involved. A social science graduate from Makerere University Kampala in Uganda named Peter Galyak Magellan said that humans have been hunting for survival for a long time now and not because of pleasure. He stated “While primitive humans relied largely upon hunting for food, the agricultural revolution (approximately 10,000 years ago) reduced the need for survival hunting in most parts of the world. Hunting has continued, however, for several reasons, and poaching remains a possibility wherever hunting is an important part of the economy or culture.” He is saying that hunting has been around for like 400,000 years, poaching has been recent because of the reasons or values for doing it. There are so many methods for poaching, in Africa some of their methods are snare wire,...
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...Every day across the world, species struggle to remain in existence. There isn’t too much good news in today’s society about endangered species. Many endangered species populations continue to drop day after day even after much awareness has been raised to the world about the need for these species to remain in existence. Yet, in this dark hour there is a glimmer of hope for some of these species, especially tigers. In the past four years, India’s wild tiger population has risen 30%. Successes like these are key. It just shows that these endangered species can be saved. “India’s Environmental Minister Prakash Javadekar said the tiger population has risen from 1,706 in 2001 to 2,226 in 2014” (BBC). Overall, world tiger populations are falling, but just that tiger populations are rising in India is big news. Other countries throughout the world can put India’s proven conservation methods to use to increase tiger populations. The World Wildlife Fund and countless other organizations took part in the protection of Indian tigers these last four years and has definitely helped the increase in wild tigers. India protected more land land for wild tigers to live. A key factor to the growth of the population was state sponsored wildlife corridors that connected large protected wildlife areas. The most immediate threat to wild tigers is poaching. “In relentless demand, their parts are used for traditional medicine, folk remedies, and increasingly as a status symbol among some Asian...
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...many years of not being spotted. Because it takes so long to define an entire species as extinct, is why we have the ICUN’s endangered animals list. b. Humans are contributing to the loss of these animals in huge ways, but also becoming more aware and trying to help more than ever in previous years. c. The purpose of my speech today is to inform you on a few ways humans are hurting and a few ways humans are helping wildlife. II. Humans are affecting different species in many ways and most for the worse. A. “Habitat loss is probably one of the greatest threats to the variety of life on this planet today.” (WWF) 1. Habitat loss can be in many different forms, like loss of areas populated by different species or mating grounds. Also erosion and vegetation loss can cause lack of shelter and food for animals. 2. One of the biggest areas that is experiencing deforestation is the amazon rainforest because of human settlements and development of the land. B. Pollution is one of the main ways in which humans have caused change and threats to wildlife habitat. 1. Pollution can be defined as the human alteration of chemical or physical characteristics of the environment to a degree that is harmful to living organisms. (marinebio.org) 2. Synthetic chemicals like DDT and dumping waste in to lakes and oceans is one of the main causes of pollution, effecting not only water animals but land animals too. C. Trophy hunting of already endangered or rare animals is also...
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...Through the work of scientists and conservation programs, the black footed ferret has made a lot of progress. Over time, the black footed ferret will continue to recover if captive breeding programs and vaccinations continue. The World Wildlife Fund has worked to restore black footed ferret populations. In 2015, fifteen black-footed ferrets were released into prairie dog colonies. After an outbreak of the plague devastated release sites in 1999, the ferret and prairie dog populations dropped significantly. The WWF provided aid in creating plague management, and in 2013 and 2014, 52 black footed ferrets were released onto a reservation (WWF). The loss of the black footed ferret would not have a large global affect, as it only resides in North American grasslands. Its loss would have a large affect locally because of the black footed ferrets’ influence in its habitat. Without the black footed ferret, the prairie dog population would be affected negatively. The WWF states that the black footed ferret “signifies the health of the grassland ecosystem which they depend on to survive” (WWF). The black footed ferret is a necessity to its environment and the species around...
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...Coca Cola and the polar bears receive. Coke has done some great things for the polar bears but much more can be done. The polar bears have receive almost $2 million in support from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). There has been a substantial reduction in deaths of polar bears from trying to uphold a section in the high Artic that the ice will last the longest. Certain surrounding tribes have also slowed down or even completely stopped killing polar bears. Coke has also alerted the public and since they are becoming aware they want to help. I added the picture of the three cubs laying on top of their mother to allude that the polar bears are happy and in stable conditions. Coke has garnered much public appeal since starting the campaign. They teamed up with WWF in 2011 and since then they have accomplished in reducing carbon emissions by 8.5%. The benefits they receive are substantial. The more people they bring onto the product, in turn their profits will increase profoundly. Even though coke has provided $2 million in their efforts to help save polar bears, it is such a miniscule number in comparison to their net income which was $2.6 billion midway through 2014. The picture of the polar bear covering his eyes was added because to me it is a sign in which polar bears are frightened that their world in collapsing before them in light of global warming. Meaning is arbitrary in which any person...
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... A Huffington Post article entitled, 'Pygmy Elephants' Protection Was Slated Through Forest Reserve Designation In Malasia, Says WWF' (Eileen Ng, 01/31/2013) focuses on an area of Borneo (Sabah) that is home to the Pygmy Elephant. With fewer than 1,200 left in Malaysia, the elephant today is a severely endangered species. This is partly due to the fact that farmers are converting forests into crops for oil and rubber plantations, limiting these elephants to where they can and can not go. The executive director of The World Wildlife Fund of Malaysia made a statement saying, “Conversions result in fragmentation of the forests, which in turn results in loss of natural habitat for elephant herds, thus forcing them to find alternative food and space, putting humans and wildlife in direct conflict.” The land-form can be described as flat and ideal for agriculture, unlike mountainous regions also found in Southeast Asia. For an elephant, this makes it ideal for grazing which is problematic for the farmer. Rather than consult with the forestry department, farmers are taking matters into their own hands and poisoning the gentle beings. "The elephants are feared to have been poisoned because they encroached on Malaysian plantations, giving fresh urgency to activists' warnings of rising conflict between man and wildlife as development accelerates … The WWF said the dead elephants were found in areas where forests were being converted for plantations within permanent forest reserves. "...
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...Less and less attention has been generated through the years about the coral reef’s condition. Many organizations such as The World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, Citizens of The Great Barrier Reef, Australian Marine Conservation Society and The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, all are working to fight for the continuation of the reef’s life. There is nothing like this in the world today, it is one of a kind and we need to take huge steps forward, quickly and powerfully to save this beautiful...
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...Student: Name Assignment Grading Course: Name IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenges Professor’s Name [optional] University The stakeholders of IKEA- Stakeholders are groups or individuals (customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders or other financiers) who can affect or be affected by the successes and failures of a business. In case of IKEA, their customers who bought furniture form them in 70 nations, all the employees who work for IKEA in 70 countries all over the globe, their suppliers all over the world who supply IKEA with the raw-material as well as furnished furniture, and all those who financed the company to open its stores and make primary investments in the 70 countries, for its geographical expansion are the “real stakeholders of IKEA”. IKEA was founded in the early 1950s, but in the mid of the 1960s it became a global furniture manufacturing company. During its expansion all around the globe, Ingvar Kampard (the founder of IKEA) opened multiple stores in different countries, some of them were self-financed by him while others were assumed to be opened as the tie up between the company’s and their stockholders (for finance) in that company, especially, those who financed the company to open the chain of stores on the foreign land. Also, when some problem arises in the indigenous market when Sweden’s local large furniture retailers threatened and all the sourcing and suppliers were blocked and even small retailers were ordered not to sell...
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