On a Thin Blue Line

WWF works in many coastal areas around the world. These are complex areas. They are intersections of the aquatic and the terrestrial, the domains of humanity and wilderness, the spiritual and the everyday, traditions and modernity. In these places WWF is only effective if they come with acceptance and listening and understanding. The collaboration and leadership of local communities is essential for conservation successes to be achieved. The first step is to learn and understand the ways of the local people, to see what it is like to live their lives, to walk in their shoes, to paddle their pirogues.