World Wildlife Fund
Joined HCSA August 2014
Category: NGO
WWF is an independent conservation organization active in nearly 100 countries working to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife.
Working with individuals, communities, business and government – WWF urgently seeks to protect and restore natural habitats, stop the mass extinction of wildlife and make the way we produce and consume sustainable.
Our mission
Stop the degradation of the earth’s natural environment and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by:
- Conserving the world’s biological diversity.
- Ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable.
- Promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
World Wildlife Fund implements the HCSA
- Provides conservation expertise and services to producers and users to deliver No Deforestation commitments by applying the HCSA Toolkit
- Advocates and promotes the uptake of HCSA’s No Deforestation tools to producers and commodity users globally
- Contributes to HCSA No Deforestation policies, protocols and guidance followed by producers, commodity users and stakeholders
- Assists piloting adaptations of the HCSA Toolkit for different commodities, geographic regions, land managers and scales of operation
WWF is an elected member of the HCSA Executive Committee and also a member of HCSA working groups:
- Quality Assurance Working Group
- Protection Working Group
- Large-scale Mapping Technical Working Group
Large-scale mapping of High Carbon Stock forests and High Conservation Value areas for Sumatra Island, Indonesia – an input to the new Hamurni tool for supply chain mapping and traceability. See ici.
