The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is the world’s leading conservation organisation and unites people across the globe to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live.
 
We are dedicated to helping local communities conserve the natural resources they depend upon, supporting the shift of markets and policies toward sustainability, and protecting and restoring species and their habitats.
 
In times of global challenges, WWF is finding ways to help transform the future for the world’s wildlife, forests and waters, calling for a reduction in carbon emissions to counter the grave consequences of climate change as well as campaigning for a healthy environment for people in order to enjoy long and sustainable life on our planet. To achieve this, WWF’s global network focuses on six major areas: Forests, Freshwater, Wildlife, Oceans, Food and Climate. 
 

The Caucasus is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and one of the richest and the most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on Earth. Covering an area of 586,800 km², the Caucasus Ecoregion extends over Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, the north Caucasian part of the Russian Federation, Northeastern Turkey, and Northwestern Iran. 

The main biomes of the Caucasus encompass forests, high mountains, steppes, dry mountain shrublands, semi-deserts, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems. Given such diversity, it is no surprise that the Caucasus is home to 2,791 endemic plant species–a level of plant endemism that is among the highest in the temperate world. The Caucasus also hosts over 120 endemic species of vertebrates. 

In addition to its outstanding biological value, the Caucasus Ecoregion is an area of exceptional cultural diversity, where a multitude of ethnic groups, languages and religions intermix over a relatively small geographical area.