Photo Gallery Panda under Pressure
The WWF is the most powerful environmental organization in the world and campaigns internationally on issues such as saving tigers and rain forests. But a closer look at its work leads to a sobering conclusion: Many of its activities benefit industry more than the environment or endangered species. Here, a WWF PR stunt in Paris in 2008.
Cleared forest on Sumatra. WWF has been criticized for allowing its partner companies to cut down rain forest
Indonesia produces almost half of the world's palm oil. But critics say that the "sustainable" palm oil that WWF promotes is nonexistent in reality. Here, a truck transports oil palm fruits to a factory in Indonesia's central Sulawesi province.
A sedated black rhino is transported away from a poaching area in South Africa as part of an operation organized by WWF. The organization has been criticized over some of its conservation activities in Africa.
The WWF has annual revenues of over 600 million Swiss francs.
