SAFEGUARDING THREATENED SPECIES Progress Report—2025

The 2025 Progress Report details WWF's global initiatives to safeguard threatened species. Key achievements include the establishment of pangolin monitoring in southern Africa, the launch of the Elly Allies Initiative for Asian elephants, and the development of Shellbank, a DNA-based toolkit for sea turtle traceability. The report also highlights a 74% increase in wild tiger populations since 2010 and the formation of the Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration to restore bison to Native lands in the Great Plains.

• WWF and the Pangolin Conservation & Research Foundation established new long-term monitoring areas for pangolins in Angola, Botswana, and Namibia, including a solar-powered research base camp in Namibia's Nyae Nyae Conservancy. In Namibia, over 100 conservation officers were trained in rescue and rehabilitation best practices.
• To protect Asian elephants, WWF created the first handbook for reducing road and railway collisions and launched the Elly Allies Initiative to restore habitats and promote human-elephant coexistence in China and Southeast Asia, aiming for stable populations by 2030.
• Wild tiger populations have increased by an estimated 74% since 2010. Thailand is the first Southeast Asian country to increase its wild tiger population, with a new estimate of 179–223 tigers. In April 2024, the Sustainable Finance for Tiger Landscapes Conference was convened in Bhutan to help mobilize $1 billion for conservation over ten years.
• Conservation efforts for other big cats include a nearly 40% increase in Bhutan's snow leopard population since 2016. For jaguars, which have approximately 65,000 individuals remaining in the wild, WWF is mapping habitat connectivity and reducing killings in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru.
• WWF developed Shellbank, the first DNA-based toolkit for tracking sea turtles, to identify the origins of bycaught or confiscated turtles. The goal is for more than 15 countries to implement this system by 2030.
• In June 2024, WWF became a founding party of the Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration (TBLC), an alliance dedicated to expanding Tribal-led bison restoration and returning bison to Tribal lands in the Great Plains.

APA

WWF International (2025). SAFEGUARDING THREATENED SPECIES Progress Report—2025. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1088/3te0f9g2tu_WWF_Legacy_Report_2025_P4.pdf

Chicago

WWF International. SAFEGUARDING THREATENED SPECIES Progress Report—2025. 2025. https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1088/3te0f9g2tu_WWF_Legacy_Report_2025_P4.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{wwfinternational2025safeguarding, author = {{WWF International}}, title = {{SAFEGUARDING THREATENED SPECIES Progress Report—2025}}, institution = {WWF International}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.worldwildlife.org/documents/1088/3te0f9g2tu_WWF_Legacy_Report_2025_P4.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }