WWF needs your help to make the world a better place for people and wildlife. By joining thousands of other WWF campaigners, you can help change laws and influence policy makers on environmental issues. Supporting our campaigns online is quick and easy and people power really does work.

If you care passionately about wildlife and the environment then join us in the fight, sign up as an online campaigner today!

Examples of our campaigning work includes climate change, illegal logging, our Marine Act campaign and threatened species.

Climate change
The survival of the polar bear is being threatened by the impact of climate change. Reductions in the extent of summer sea ice, due to increased temperatures, make hunting for food much harder. Summer sea ice may disappear altogether by 2080.

WWF is campaigning to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases, in particular carbon dioxide, which are causing climate change. Government, businesses and individuals all have a responsibility to cut emissions - from the energy we use, to emissions from cars and planes, and from our homes and the emissions associated with the items that we consume, like food. The UK Government has promised a 'Climate Bill', which we welcome. But we need your help to persuade the Government to include in this Bill a "Carbon Budget" - a plan to cut carbon dioxide in all sectors of the economy by at least 3% every year.

If you want to take action today, then sign our climate change petition now.

Illegal logging
The future of the orang-utan in Indonesia is being threatened by illegal logging due to its impact on their habitat - with logging even occurring in protected areas. Indeed, almost 80% of logging in Indonesia is estimated to be illegal - causing widespread environmental damage but also depriving the Government of $1 billion in lost revenues a year.

Here in the UK, we import over 70% of our timber and wood products and WWF has estimated the UK to be one of the largest importers of illegal timber within the EU. Incredibly, it is currently not illegal to import illegal timber into the EU and as a result the vast majority of companies do not properly check where their timber comes from. This is why WWF is calling for EU legislation to make it illegal to import this timber in order to exclude it from our market.

We need your help to write to your MP to ask them to sign EDM 132 which calls on the UK Government to actively support and promote this legislation in the EU.

Marine Act campaign
Every year leatherback turtles come to the UK. They swim from thousands of miles away, usually from the Caribbean. Once they arrive in UK waters they still face many threats, largely due to a lack of protection and pressure from increasing maritime activity.

WWF is lobbying the UK Government to introduce a new marine law that will protect all our marine wildlife, including leatherbacks. This law will set up marine reserves and reform the way our seas are managed to reduce conflict between users and threats to our marine biodiversity.

Although the Government has promised to bring in this new law, we need your help to persuade them to introduce it as quickly as possible. Sign up as a campaigner.

Threatened species
A key threat to biodiversity is the unsustainable trade in species, such as the tiger and hyacinth macaws, which is devastating their numbers in the wild. Poaching of tigers, for example, is the largest immediate threat to the species worldwide. Their bones and other body parts are used in traditional Chinese medicine, not only to meet demand in Asia, but increasingly so in Europe. Hyacinth macaws, on the other hand, are illegally exported for the pet trade.

In total, over 800 species of animals and plants are currently banned from international trade and a further 33,000 are strictly controlled by CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) but enforcing these rules is key. We need Governments to properly co-ordinate their enforcement of CITES and for consumers to buy responsibly.

You can help by ensuring that you don't buy any products, in the UK or abroad, that you suspect might be made from endangered species. If you see or hear about any suspicious trade in the UK or abroad, let us know using the online reporting form, or call the Eyes & Ears hotline: 01483 426111. We will then investigate, analyse and report your findings to the relevant authorities. WWF needs you to help us fight the illegal and unsustainable trade in wildlife.

In the future we may need your help to lobby government on this topic. Sign up as a campaigner to be kept updated on our current actions.