A team of biologists convened by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) developed an ecological land classification system that identified fourteen biomes, called major habitat types, and further divided the world's land area into 867 terrestrial ecoregions.

The old NWA territory system was collapsing under pressure from the Vincent K. McMahon's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ), which began to operate nationwide.

Far worse for Joint Promotions, however, was that with their contract up for renewal, they were forced to share the TV rights as part of a rotation system with All Star Wrestling and America's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

The swamp has a continental climate ( Walter system ) or taiga ( WWF system ), with long cold winters and short hot summers.

What followed was a purge of stars from various territories and promotions, including Gagne's AWA, by Vince McMahon, who wished to take his WWF " national " and do away with the traditional territorial system that dominated the North American Pro Wrestling landscape for years.

Both systems also have a prioritization system for establishing preserves ; the WWF designated its Global 200 ecoregions as priorities for conservation, and the Department of Environment and Heritage ranks its bioregions high, medium, or low priority, based on " the potential value land reservation in those regions would add to the development of a comprehensive, adequate and representative reserve system for Australia.

The game also marked the first time on the system in a WWF game that players could fight backstage and also the first time moves can be done on the announcer's table.

As Danielson continued to tour the country, he was signed to a developmental deal by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) to work in their developmental system where recently signed performers train and refine their skills before debuting on WWF's television programming, and was assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling ( MCW ).

Many wrestlers such as Chris Jericho and The Radicalz ( Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn, Dean Malenko ) were drafted from WCW, all publicly claiming on both companies ' TV broadcasts that they were extremely unhappy at the storylines and backstage chaos at WCW, and were further intrigued and happier with the structural running of the WWF.

Although these regulations seem to provide a strong legal framework for controlling the commerce involving big cats, international organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) have encouraged the U. S. to further strengthen these laws.

The rise of the New World Order precluded further challenges, and they headed back to the WWF.

* 1989 – As part of a " Safe Setts " campaign, the League joined forces with the RSPCA, WWF, RSNC and NFBG to push for further protection for badgers.

Costantino was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling for further training, before being sent up to work for WWF.

Following the WWF / WWE name change in 2002, the championship was further unified with the European Championship in a ladder match on July 22, and the Hardcore Championship on August 26.

Johnny the Bull was introduced to the promotion as a member of The Alliance but after a single appearance on WWF television, Hugger was sent to the Heartland Wrestling Association, an Ohio-based WWF developmental territory, in late July 2001, to further his training.

Fully Loaded was an annual World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) pay-per-view event, which started in July 1998 and was held for a further two years in July.

WWF President ( kayfabe ) Jack Tunney finally came to ringside to make sure Roberts left without any further incident.

WWF and Greenpeace formed the FSC in 1994 as a vehicle to further their political objectives and to take control of forest management and its regulation away from Governments.

According to the WWF, the following are classified as freshwater biomes:

The WWF Global 200 work also identifies a number of major habitat types that correspond to the terrestrial biomes: polar, temperate shelves and seas, temperate upwelling, tropical upwelling, tropical coral, pelagic ( trades and westerlies ), abyssal, and hadal ( ocean trench ).

He was Hulk Hogan's tag-team partner at the World Wrestling Federation's ( WWF ) first WrestleMania which he won.

The Shan Hills form, together with the Karen Hills, Dawna Range and Tenasserim Hills, a natural border with Thailand as well as the Kayah-Karen / Tenasserim moist forests ecoregion which is included in the Global 200 list of ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) as priorities for conservation.

In 1988, Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions which he renamed World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) which became the main competitor to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

UPN aired only one regular network sports event program: the much-hyped XFL in 2001, as part of a package from co-creator Vince McMahon which also included what was then WWF SmackDown!

The company began as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation in 1952, which promoted under the banner of the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ) and later the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

With the inaugural WrestleMania the WWF initiated a joint-promotional campaign with MTV, which featured a great deal of WWF coverage and programming, in what was termed the Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection.

In an effort to promote them and other young talent as the new superstars of the ring, the WWF began to play on the age restrictions which former WWF wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage ( who by now were working for WCW ) now faced.

Notably, Mick Foley's WWF Championship win over The Rock on Monday Night Raw saw WCW lose millions of viewers when Eric Bischoff instructed announcer Tony Schiavone to give away the result minutes before both main events started, which led to Raw drawing eleven million viewers.

Shooter and his investors then founded a new company, Voyager Communications, which published comics under the Valiant Comics banner, entering the market in the 1989 with comics based on Nintendo and WWF licensed characters.

At the outset of WCW's existence, as well as with the promotions that came before it, the company was strongly identified with the Southern style of professional wrestling ( or rasslin '), which emphasized athletic in-ring competition over the showmanship and cartoonish characters of the WWF.

WCW dominated pro wrestling's television ratings from 1996 to 1998 ( 84 straight weeks ) mainly due to its incredibly popular New World Order storyline, but thereafter began to lose heavy ground to the WWF, which had recovered greatly due to its new " Attitude " branding.

It started growing nationally a few years later, which led to its rivalry with the WWF.

WWF maintains that " although conservation action typically takes place at the country level, patterns of biodiversity and ecological processes ( e. g., migration ) do not conform to political boundaries ", which is why ecoregion-based conservation strategies are deemed essential.

The Earth's land surface can be divided into eight biogeographical realms ( formerly called kingdoms, and which the WWF calls ecozones ) that represent the major terrestrial communities of animals and plants, and are a synthesis of previous systems of floristic provinces and faunal regions.

* The WWF Tagteam known as the Road Warriors ( Hawk and Animal ) had a tag team finishing maneuver which they called the " Doomsday Device ".

The World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) divides Indomalaya into three bioregions, which it defines as " geographic clusters of ecoregions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level ( genus, family ).

In late 1985, the WWF did an angle ( a fictional storyline ) in which all the managers in the promotion were competing to offer their services to Randy Savage.

Two adult rhinos with their calves were filmed in a motion-triggered video released on February 28, 2011 by WWF and Indonesia's National Park Authority, which proved it is still breeding in the wild.

Sappi is also involved in wildlife conservation measures, such as its involvement in the Sappi WWF TreeRoutes Partnership which has set up community based ecotourism venues such as the new Karkloof Conservation Center which helps protect all three of South Africa's crane species.

The WWF major habitat types are:

World Wildlife Fund ( WWF ) identifies twelve major habitat types of freshwater ecoregions: Large lakes, large river deltas, polar freshwaters, montane freshwaters, temperate coastal rivers, temperate floodplain rivers and wetlands, temperate upland rivers, tropical and subtropical coastal rivers, tropical and subtropical floodplain rivers and wetlands, tropical and subtropical upland rivers, xeric freshwaters and endorheic basins, and oceanic islands.

This helped drive many WWF wrestlers to its only major competition, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), between 1994 and 1997.

1997 ended with McMahon facing real life controversy resulting in major ratings and financial losses after becoming widely despised by his employees, wrestling critics, and wrestling fans following Bret Hart's controversial departure from the WWF, later known as the Montreal Screwjob.

Morales was the first man in wrestling history to win all three major men's titles in the World Wrestling Federation: the WWWF Championship, the Intercontinental Championship and the WWF World Tag Team Championship.

Despite falling behind the WWF and NWA as a major promotion throughout 1986 and 1987, Gagne still managed to find and / or develop legitimate young talent like Scott Hall, The Midnight Rockers ( Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty ), " Bull Power " Leon White ( later known as Big Van Vader ), The Nasty Boys ( Brian Knobs and Jerry Sags ), and Madusa Miceli during that timeframe.

Sammartino's last major feud came in the summer of 1987 against The Honky Tonk Man for the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

At a major WWF live event, Paul Levesque ( as the villainous Hunter Hearst Helmsley ) wrestled

During his professional wrestling career, Benoit worked for such major promotions as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ( CMLL ), Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ), New Japan Pro Wrestling ( NJPW ), World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), and the World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWF / WWE ).

Lawler's son, Brian Christopher, was one of the major superstars in the division, although the WWF played up an angle where both Lawler and Christopher would deny their family relationship, even though the two would aide each other in matches and so on.

In the course of the match, Hart arrived at ringside, entered the ring, and was pinned by Diesel for the win and the title, making him and Michaels holders of all three major WWF championships.

From 1993 to 2002, the King of the Ring was considered the fifth major WWF PPV ( alongside the Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series.

After defeating Koko B. Ware at the inaugural SummerSlam, Bossman made his first major WWF impact when he attacked Hulk Hogan on Brother Love's interview segment.

The move was seen as more of a relief to those who had questioned wrestling's legitimacy, since at least one major company ( in this case, the WWF ) was now publicly willing to admit that wrestling was staged, however the move did anger many wrestling purists.

One of Linda ’ s major interests in WWF and WWE was product merchandising.

Described by WWE ( previously the WWF ) as " one of the most physically impressive individuals in WWE history ", Smith found success as both a singles and tag competitor, holding every major title in the organization except the WWF Championship.

Both major US promotions made several arena tours of the UK, while the WWF even held the pay-per-view event SummerSlam ' 92 in London's Wembley Stadium before a crowd of around 80, 000

The original concept was that, in months when the WWF was not holding one of its major PPV events ( WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble, which at the time ran for three hours and retailed for $ 29. 95 ), they would offer a two-hour PPV, priced at $ 14. 95.

) Among the major WWF events which the building hosted were SummerSlam in 1990, King of the Ring in 1995, and various other live shows featuring performers such as Hulk Hogan and others.