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A new initiative has been launched by WWF International called the WWF Conservation Leadership Fund, or CLF. The fund aims to raise US$ 20 million over the next three years to strengthen WWFs essential global conservation leadership role. This will help WWF mobilize and guide conservation action worldwide to tackle more effectively the escalating threats to the environment.

The CLF has already received more than US$ 7 million in major donations and pledges. Two of these major gifts are helping support WWFs conservation programmes in Africa and Asia, and a further three gifts are enabling WWF to develop vital conservation pr ogrammes in the important Baltic and Mediterranean regions. In addition to providing significant new financial aid, the CLF will also enable WWF to build closer relationships with its supporters to show the conservation success achieved with its help.

For further information, contact: Rob Soutter, Special Campaigns, WWF International, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland. Phone: + 41 22 364 92 18. Fax: + 41 22 364 00 74. E-mail: rsoutter@wwfnet.org.

WWF World Wide Fund For Nature is the worlds largest independent conservation organization with more than 4.7 million supporters. Active in 96 countries, WWF aims to conserve nature and ecological processes by: preserving genetic, species, and ecosyste m diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable resources is sustainable both now and in the longer term; and promoting actions to reduce pollution and the wasteful consumption of resources and energy. WWF continues to be known as World Wildlife Fund in C anada and the United States of America.

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