A powerful search tool – WWF Wildfinder is designed for students, nature enthusiasts, and scientists to find and map WWF information on over 26,000 species of wildlife worldwide.
Interested in wildlife…? Go on WWF Wildfinder, where you can find each and everything important to know about wildlife around the world. We noted that something was terribly wrong with species of plants and animals, most were disappearing and many of them are still at risk of extinction. Ever heard about the WWF? It is an international non-governmental organization which works on issues like conservation, research and restoration of the environment. Being the world’s largest independent conservation organization, it works for more than 100 countries by supporting about 1,300 conservation and environmental projects. There are more than 5 million supporters across the world that supports this noble organization. One of its services called Wildfinder is great at providing complete database for the world’s terrestrial amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, by terrestrial ecoregion. Here, you can find detailed descriptions about species and places, along with their threats. Also, you can access their projects and work within a click only. As Wildfinder belongs to WWF, you can 100% trust information provided here. So, Get the right… On the right!
WWF Wildfinder could be a great resource, as it helps you find where wildlife lives globally. Widlfinder makes searching really easy using the map interface. It informs you about everything clearly on the map, just scroll! It allows you to search by species to find out where they live; or search by place to see the species that live in that particular area directly on the map. This is really easy and simple to use… but highly informative.
Get everything important that you wanna know about your favorite specie like information about their home ecoregion, photos of the species in the wild along with status whether they currently are in danger or not. On finding animal on the map, you can open a tab of information about its habitat, whether or not its population is threatened, along with picture viewing of the animal.
At present, WildFinder includes information about four large classes like amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It contains more than 26,000 records of presence and absence data for amphibian, bird, mammal, and reptile species found within each of world’s 825 terrestrial ecoregions. Species and their distributions information comes from published sources, like field guides and species accounts, also from unpublished sources like compiled museum records or directly from experts. Today’s advance science constantly searches out new information about the world around us, so as soon as new data on these and other class become available, it will be updated in no time on WildFinder.
Make your visit at worldwildlife.org/pages/wildfinder; however you won’t find the required map page directly at this link address. At first, there is only information and guidance about the tool. See at the bottom, there are two link tabs: Search by Place and Search by specie. Just click any of them and… go on.
From the Map Gallery page, just click on the any place, instantly, a box is there asking to select ecoregion. That’s really quick! For selection, you will be taken to the new opened tab.
Within a click, you can get the complete information about the place you selected/clicked, including Ecocode, Realm and Biome. Even, you can explore more knowledge about the location, clicking on Story & photo tab given at the bottom line. This lets you know size, conservation status along with brief introduction of that particular place. Still want more knowledge about the selected place; More Details tab is also given that will take you on the WWF for A to Z details. Here, you can share this knowledge with other wildlife lovers, your friends using direct sharing options for Facebook and Twitter. Meantime, you are allowed to give your honest feedback. Photo gallery is also available for more clear view.
By the way, you will also find the drop down list with available species in that particular place. Best thing about the list is that it holds names of the species in two ways: Common and Scientific. That means not only students, scientists, researchers as well as common people can simply use this feature.
Once you pick one from given specie selection, you will get information like Class, Order, Family, Endemic, Threat status along with its photo. If you want to explore other ecoregions for this specie, then you can do with a click only. The same displayed list can be exported to HTML, EXCEL, and DELIMITED FILE. Really helpful! Here, you also get more info tab with direct link of Encyclopedia of Life and International Union for Conservation of Nature. Share option is also provided here for direct sharing. Also, you will get Donate tab.
On the map, you will also get Advance search option at topside for the quicker search. There are 5 direct options to pick your required one – Class (4), Order (69), Family (445), Genus and most importantly Threat status. Other useful tabs like Transparency, Basemaps (with Topo, Satellite, Streets and Reliefs), Ecoregion Themes, and Overview map are given to make easy map scrolling. Full screen and the best one Print tab are also available that allows you direct print out for the displayed part of the map.
Little about WWF:
The first thing we notice on the welcome page of the site is Panda symbol; actually in the same year of the establishment of WWF (1961), a panda named Chi Chi was transferred from the Beijing Zoo to the London Zoo and it is the only giant panda residing in the Western world at that time, having physical features and status as an endangered species. That’s how, panda is considered to be strong recognizable symbol of the organization.
For the interface, you can say that all important topics are available within a click. On the top menu bar, you will get 4 basic tabs – Species, Places, Threats, and Our work.
Species section is here to get you direct search for the endangered species like Giant Pandas, Tigers, Elephants, Gorillas, Sea turtles, Polar Bears, Rhinos, and Whales. If anyone of them is your favorite, then you may glad to know that other useful details like Overview (for complete introduction), Why They Matter (mentioning their crucial role in forests), Threats (reason for why), What WWF is Doing (WWF efforts), How Can you Help (different ways to help them), and Adopt.
Enjoy your knowledge here, as it also provides feature like Animal Trivia Games, wherein you can play some IQ sort of games. Symbolically Adopt an Animal for different helping ways; Endangered Species – for the complete list and Our Work Protecting Species – for WWF efforts are also available there.
Places tab makes you aware about places like Amazon, Arctic, Congo Basin, etc. along with you get useful links like Travel with WWF( – wherein you can get guidance on how you support WWF’s global conservation efforts contributing a portion of your tour cost); Habitat and Our Work Conserving Places.
Threats tab informs you that how Climate Changes, Deforestation, Illegal Wildlife Trade, Oil and Gas development, Overfishing, and Pollution affects wildlife. Besides, you will get links like Stop Wildlife Crime, Take action against threats, and Our Work Tackling threats. At last, Our work tab is the most informative tab about WWF and their efforts, containing all important information like projects, partners, experts along with education for nature grants and fellowships.
Being a part of such a giant institution of WWF, it has a lot in About Us. Clicking on it, you will get History, Leadership, Experts, News & Press, Financials, Careers, and Contact…everything. Here, Experts link makes us introduce with WWF’s incredible team of scientists, biologists and policy makers. At News & Press, you can get informed with the latest activities of the organization and news.
Another best thing is its How to help section. This is too good! It contains with many useful links Take Action, Stay Informed, Fundraise, Send E-cards, Shop to support, Join WWF, Make a Gift, etc. So, help those who can not speak at fullest with such different ways.
Take action is here to help animals and the environment. It is for those who ant to stop the wrong things happen to the wildlife, exposing the truth and spreading awareness among more and more people around the world. Just select from the Take action or Tell your Friends, and go ahead with your march to save wildlife.
Stay Informed is also the best one, herein you just need to sign-up at WWF’s free monthly e-newsletter. Afterwards, you will receive text messages from WWF based on wildlife news, projects, achievements and stories. Here are many for you— E-newsletter, this is a monthly email packed with conservation news, successes from the field, and ways to engage. WildWire for the quick e-mails, linking you to top conservation stories, sent about 1 – 2 times per month. Conservation Action Network lets you speak out for wildlife and wild places through email alerts. Best of all, WWF’s monthly e-newsletter provide chances to travel with WWF using WWF’s Travel E-newsletter.
Help more actively using Fundraise! This allows you to create your own wildlife- or wild place-themed webpage, raising funds to help support WWF’s conservation work. This page is called Panda Pages, an online destination for animal and nature lovers. The created page helps you share stories and photos of your favorite animals and places, to respect loved ones and to mark special occasions. Other Panda Page members, who are also passionate to save the environment and interested to learn more about the endangered species and global threats, are contacted here. Best thing is that creating Panda Pages is a fun and simple way and comes with complete guiding process.
An exclusive way to present your love and concern for wildlife to your loved ones is Send E-cards. This feature makes you send a free online greeting card to your friends and family. You will find many for any occasion like Get well soon e-card, Friendship & Love E-cards, Birthday E-cards, Invitations & Announcements, Thank You E-cards, Species Fact E-cards, Miss you, Good luck and more. Just pick the best one, write your own personal message and send, so easy!
You can support it by shopping also. Make sure that you shop at amazonsmile, Avon, Yanni, The WWF online bookstore, Threadless, theory11, Terra-Toys, Johnson & Johnson, eBay , Calendar Club, and many. Now, every time you buy, it will contribute to the WWF. If you particularly want to go for donation, then here are so many different ways for donation, clicking on Join WWF and Make Gift. Also, special tab is given over there for donation, containing different easy and direct ways. Adopt is another innovative option to help this organization through Gift Adoption Cards, frontline hero dolls, Buckets, tubs, apparels and more.
In short, Wildfinder+WWF….is all about to Know…Enjoy…and Help Wildlife at the fullest!