World Wildlife Fund (1983: Doomsday)

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) coordinates the environmental activities of the League of Nations, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was re-established as a result of the LoN Conference for the Human Environment in June 2009 - previously it had been a independent organization - and has its headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. The WWF also has six regional offices and offices in various countries.

The WWF is the designated authority of the LoN with regards to environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action.

Currently, much of its work focuses on the conservation of three biomes that contain most of the world's biodiversity: forests, freshwater ecosystems, and oceans and coasts. Among other issues, it is also concerned with endangered species, pollution and climate change, especially as a result of the events of Doomsday.

Pre-Doomsday
The organization was formed as a charitable trust on September 11, 1961, in Morges, Switzerland, under the name World Wildlife Fund. It was an initiative of Julian Huxley and Max Nicholson, who had thirty years experience of linking progressive intellectuals with big business interests through the Political and Economic Planning think tank.

The WWF set up offices and operations around the world. It originally worked by fund-raising and providing grants to existing non-governmental organizations, based on the best-available scientific knowledge and with an initial focus on the protection of endangered species. As more resources became available, its operations expanded into other areas such as the preservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of natural resources, the reduction of pollution, and climate change. The organization also began to run its own conservation projects and campaigns, and by the 1980s it had started to take a more strategic approach to its conservation activities.

Doomsday
The WWF lost many of its members in the fires of Doomsday, and many of its offices were destroyed or abandoned. Because of this, the organization as a whole collapsed due to a lack of funds and support, and devolved into different environmental organizations where its organization had survived.

As a net result, the more powerful and intact of the remaining areas of the organization, the ANZUS and Alpine Confederation.

Post-Doomsday
After Doomsday the LoN was created. The earth and its (climate) had changed somewhat after Doomsday. These changes brought joy to some species and threatened others, so the LoN decided to reunite the WWF, which would be in charge of Earth's environment, and the LoN Conference for Human Environment was held in June of 2009. The result of this Conference was the revival of the WWF but as a LoN organization. The surviving branches in the ANZUS and the Alpine Confederation, having been the strongest branches left after Doomsday, were the leaders in this, as as a result, the headquarters was to be selected from between the two. In the end, it came down to access to the ocean, and as a result, it was established in Auckland, New Zealand.

The WWF's current strategy for achieving its mission specifically focuses on restoring the populations of 36 species which are important for their ecosystem or to people, including elephants, tunas, whales, dolphins and porpoises, and big-leaf mahogany, conserving 35 globally important ecosystems around the world, such as the Arctic, the Amazon rainforest, the Congo Basin and the Coral Triangle, and reducing people’s ecological footprint in 6 different areas.

The organization also works on a number of global issues driving biodiversity loss and unsustainable use of natural resources, including finance, business practices, laws, and consumption choices. Local offices also work on national or regional issues.

The WWF works with a large number of different groups to achieve its goals, including other organizations, governments, business, investment banks, scientists, fishers, farmers and local communities. It also undertakes public campaigns to influence decision makers, and seeks to educate people on how to live in a more environmentally friendly manner.

WWF scientists and many others have identified 238 eco-regions that represent the world's most biologically outstanding terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats, based on a worldwide biodiversity analysis which the organization says was the first of its kind.

Currently, the main project that the WWF is working on is studying the extent of the climate change brought on by Doomsday, with the filling of the Great Salt Lake and the flooding of the Netherlands being examples of what has occurred. The project is investigating what other changes may have occurred elsewhere as a result.

Currently, there is extensive debate in many corners over the practicality of the organization, given the current state of the world, though the WWF has stated with that regard that while it is true, the environment suffered immensely at the time too, and should not be forgotten.

Projects
The WWF have made many projects after Doomsday to study and protect the World's ecosystem, they have done big projects in Spain, Netherlands, Salt Lake, Sea of Aral, Caspian Sea, Lake Chad, South Africa, China, India, and the Amazon Rainforest. Many of this zones, if lawless, are controlled by the WWF like the Spanish marshes, the Nevada desert, the Dutch Wastelands, and the New Mexico desert.

Spain
Because nuclear blasts vast areas of the Iberian Peninsula have been empty and have been recovered by the wilderness, that is, for animal and plant species have been able to adapt to dying environmental of post-doomsday era. The marshes now dominate the landscape at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river and the lagoon of Valencia. The swamps also occupy a large part of La Mancha. In general the temperature has risen a few degrees, increasing desertification in the south, precipitation have become more erratic and violent. The forest has retreated, giving way to scrub. In terms of species, the conifers are replacing deciduous. The richness of the original fauna has been lost. Although flourish gulls, crows, mice, lizards and feral dogs and cats (descendants of those domesticated).

Netherlands
On September 26, 1983 the Netherlands and its neighboring countries were hit by several nuclear missiles. These completely destroyed several urban areas and killed millions. As a side affect several of the dikes and polders set up in these areas were destroyed as well, causing minor flooding in these areas. More serious and lasting however was the lack of manpower set up for maintaining Holland's drainage system. The drainage pumps, lacking fuel, skills and people to operate them, remained inoperative after Doomsday. Slowly these areas began sinking back into sea from which they came.

Over the next few years almost half of the country began to fill up with brackish water, subsequently transforming the areas into radiation infested swamps prone to being flooded by the sea. Meanwhile plant life began to reclaim the area and cover the swamped cities and towns. Soon the only signs of past civilization left were crumbling ruins of former settlements halfway filled with water. There remain very few people who still live in these cities. Although a few nomads and reclusive inhabitants can be sporadically found living in the area, they number in the mere thousands in a region which once held over 10 million people.

Although located mostly below sea level Friesland escaped most of the flooding. In Friesland lack of manpower was not immediately an issue but fuel was quickly running out. A solution was found by once again using the old school method of keeping dry feet by using windmills as water pumps. Most old windmills, whether intended as pumps or not, were put to this use and many new ones were constructed. Though the lands are vastly wetter using these methods and only the higher lying ground can be used to raise crops, the lower lying lands are still much suited to keeping livestock.

The fate of the Dutch Wastelands remains uncertain. Although radiation levels have dropped they remain too high for safe rehabilitation at present, especially with continued radiation from the Rhine and Meuse rivers. Although there have been talks of eventual resettlement by the Netherlands Antilles, these remain minor and unofficial. It is most likely, barring major rehabilitation, the Dutch Wastelands will sink completely beneath the North Sea over the next few decades, becoming a shallow, irradiated bay of the North Sea.

The birds population has grow in the last years, and use the Dutch Wastelands as a nesting ground with the buildings as their nests.

Great Salt Lake
Because the Great Salt Lake is one of the lower points of the Great Basin, it is actually an endorheic or pluvial lake. With the change in the climate brought on by the nuclear blast, removing the doldrums of the Equator and pushing the monsoon climate further north, the Great Salt Lake has begun to rise from its height in 1983 of 4,212. It is expected that with an increase over the prior 2.9 million acre-feet per year flowing into the Great Salt Lake, the level will continue to rise until a new outlet is breached.

Because of this growth, the citizens of Utah have constructed three dikes in the southwest corner of the Cache Valley, just north of Lehi and northwest of Delta. These dikes effectively protect the habitable centers of Utah from increasing flood. It is expected that the new Mormon Sea will crest around 4700 or 4800 feet. The Curlew Sluice has been cut and graded to this end, using the drainage of Raft River as its drainage into the Columbia River basin. Ongoing efforts are underway to lower the level of the sea to 4600 feet, if possible, however the volume of earth to be moved is prohibitive.

Since the Lake has grow many species of fishes and birds are growing, Some of the birds that depend on these marshes include: Wilson's phalarope, red-necked phalarope, American avocet, black-necked stilt, marbled godwit, snowy plover, western sandpiper, long-billed dowitcher, tundra swan, American white pelican, white-faced ibis, California gull, eared grebe, peregrine falcon, bald eagle, plus large populations of various ducks and geese.

The Yellow Mariposa, a flower that once lived in Freemont Island in the 19th Century has returned, also the "Sea Monkeys" population have grow because the lake expand and the Sea Monkey Industry disappear after Doomsday, this massive population grow have contribute to the growing population of birds.

Nevada
Vegetation zones include Creosote Bush, Desert Holly, and mesquite at the lower elevations and sage up through shadscale, blackbrush, Joshua Tree, pinyon-juniper, to Limber Pine and Bristlecone Pine woodlands. The saltpan is devoid of vegetation, and the rest of the valley floor and lower slopes have sparse cover, although where water is available, an abundance of vegetation is usually present. These zones and the adjacent desert support a variety of wildlife species, including 51 species of native mammals, 307 species of birds, 36 species of reptiles, 3 species of amphibians, and 2 species of native fish.

Small mammals are more numerous than large mammals, such as Bighorn Sheep, Coyotes, Bobcats, Kit Foxes, Cougars, and Mule Deer. Mule Deer are present in the pinyon/juniper associations of the Grapevine, Cottonwood, and Panamint ranges. Bighorn Sheep are a rare species of mountain sheep that exist in isolated bands in the Sierra and in Death Valley. These are highly adaptable animals and can eat almost any plant. They have no known predators, but burros compete for habitat.

The ancestors of the Death Valley Pupfish swam to the area from the Colorado River via a long-since dried-up system of rivers and lakes which are re-emerging after Doomsday. They now live in two separate populations: one in Salt Creek and another in Cottonball Marsh.

After the ranches and parks were abandoned many Dromedaries escaped and adapt to the Nevada Environment, WWF scientists think that Nevada's Dromedaries will evolve into a vicuna like animal.

Great Plains
At the crossroads of the continent, the Great Plains partakes of many influences. The desert of the American southwest contributes drought-adapted plants. The eastern deciduous forest sends woodland species out from its margins to try their luck amongst the grasses. The northeastern third felt the crush of the Pleistocene glaciers, which left behind some near-Arctic species when they retreated. Drought and flood, extremes of heat and cold, fire and the hand of man are constantly reshaping the area.

The Great Plains is subtle in its details. There are no craggy, snow-capped mountain ranges, but there are isolated mountainous areas. The Black Hills of South Dakota and the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma are examples. These areas are like islands in the prairie and often contain species whose nearest relatives may be hundreds of miles away. There is no ocean shoreline, but the edge habitat along rivers, streams and the many natural and man-made lakes provide abundant opportunities for aquatic plants and the animals that depend on them. The wetland habitats of the prairie are very significant. Cheyenne Bottoms, located near Great Bend, Kansas, is officially recognized as a wetland of international importance. Half of all North American shorebirds stop over there during the spring migration.

Post-Doomsday and Future
The Grass have grown in the last years, and Bison population have expand, also the Pronghorn population have expand. Massive giant Herds of feral cows and horses have also appear in the last years, but the most strange and impressive of all if that lions have appear in the plain possibly because they escape of zoos and private collectors. the WWF have declared that possible in a future cows and bison will be the giant herds of the plains, while horses and pronghorns will be a smaller population of grazers with the lions being the hunters of the south plains.