Polish environmentalists to join WWF Earth Hour
Polish environmentalists are gearing up to join this year’s round of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) campaign known as Earth Hour. This year, they plan to highlight the need to protect wolves as part of the campaign.
They want the public to find out more about this predator and its role in nature. The Polish leg of the campaign is also a reaction to emerging cases of these animals being killed in the country, a spokesman for the WWF, Pawel Sredzinski, has told PAP.
As part of the campaign, on Saturday at noon, Polish environmentalists plan to "howl for wolves" in several major cities, Sredzinski said. People can also support the effort to protect this animal by "joining the pack" online, he added.
Even though wolves are strictly protected in Poland there have been cases of illegal killing of these animals, Sredzinski said.
Poland is home to about 1,000 wolves, according to the WWF.
Earth Hour is a worldwide grassroots movement organised by the WWF to unite people to protect the planet. Engaging a massive community on a broad range of environmental issues, Earth Hour was started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007. Poland joined the campaign a year later. As part of the campaign thousands of people in cities worldwide put out the lights in a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the planet from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time. (PAP)
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