The Wildlife Trusts
- May 1912 - Charles Rothschild formed The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves, which became The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, which was the beginning of wildlife conservation in the UK.
- The group worked hard to secure government protection for many sites around the UK.
- 1949 - nature conservation made it onto the statute with the National Parks & Access to the Countryside Act.
- Local conservation groups began appearing around the UK - Norfolk 1926, Yorkshire 1946 and Lincolnshire 1948
- There are now 47 Wildlife trusts covering the whole of the UK.
The WWF
- 1961 - The WWF is founded and is registered as a charity in Switzerland
- 1972 - Project Tiger is launched which runs parallel to the same project in India, which aims to set up nine national parks as tiger reserves.
- 1975 - WWF pioneers its first tropical rain forest campaign, meaning dozens of rain forests in Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America are managed as national parks or
- 1976 - WWF's first marine programme, leading to protection for marine turtle nesting sites and the establishment of sanctuary's for whales.
- 1979 - WWF creates a fund to establish the Woolong nature reserve in China for the preservation of pandas
- 1998 - WWF and the World Bank form an alliance to set up a network of worlwide protected areas including 200 million hectares of well managed forest by 2005.
- 1999 - WWF plays a big role in ensuring that sustainable development is an important part of the new National Curriculum in England.
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