Nicole+&+Clare

=== What organisations/projects are already in place to conserve/protect Australian wildlife and rainforest (be specific to Australia) === Some organisations already in place to conserve australian wildlife WWF, Don't Palm Us Off.

Save The Frogs save the frog is an organisation based in America and is now worldwide. It was founded in May 2008 and is america's first and only public charity for frog conservation. **The goal of Save The Frogs** is to protect the amphibian population and to promote a society that respects and appreciates nature and wildlife. Save the frogs uses many methods to promote their message, these include: some of the current projects include:
 * getting the harmful pesticide atrazine banned andout of production
 * coordinating save the frogs day
 * **SAVE THE FROGS DAY** - April 27th
 * stopping the importation of nearly 3 million (non native) american bullfrogs yearly, these frogs eat native frogs and spread disease.


 * Save the frog day had over 270 in at least 3****0 countries:** Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Colombia, Dominica, Hungary, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Israel, Italy, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the USA

A major threat to all frog species is the infectious disease chytridiomycosis, it is a disease caused by an aquatic fungal pathogen, //Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis// (//Bd//) which is found in all countries with frog population


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Location: Australia WWF Australia’s missions and goals are for the protection and environmental conservation are the same as WWF’s Global and Local missions and goals. Their mission Their mission is, “to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to 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 and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.”
 * WWF **

WWF also helps to conserve the many other species that share these habitats and/or are vulnerable to the same threats.

Globally Started: WWF was founded on 29 April 1961 in the small, picturesque Swiss town of Morges, with the basic aim of preserving life on Earth. The Australian office of WWF was established on 29 June 1978, with a staff of just three working out of an old factory in Sydney.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.wwf.org.au/__]

WCS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Location: The plains of Africa, Asia, North America, The Caribbean and the ocean.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There mission statement, “The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. We do so through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth”.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Method/what they do: They save wildlife and the plains of Africa, Asia, North America, The Caribbean and the ocean

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WCS was founded in 1895

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One success story from WCS is the American bison, an incredible mammal that they worked to conserve for more than a century. At one time, these animals were almost faced with extinction, their numbers plummeted to 1,000 iin 1906. Today, their population has grown to approximately 450,000. Although their work is far from over, it’s essential that they keep going or else they will become extinct yet again.




 * [|__http://www.wcs.org/__] **

** Your opinion **

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicola - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The world wouldn’t be the same without these companies helping to stop extinction, in my opinion I think to many animals have been extinct and no more should become extinct. These groups rely on donations. I believe this is a great cause and they are doing the right thing in keeping these animals alive.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Claire - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Without the these conservation groups a lot of our wildlife would be disappearing a lot quicker than we would like and these groups are just the beginning of the fight to keep our world the way it should be.

** Does anyone oppose their goals? **
No not that we know of if anyone does they are cruel and they do not realise how important animals are.