NDF was born out of the long presence of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Ghana and across the West African region. The WWF West Africa Regional Office was based in Abidjan since the mid-70s until the civil war in Côte d’Ivoire forced WWF to relocate its office to Ghana in 2005.
Since 2009 the WWF team in Accra has focused on forest and trade related activities as a part of the WWF International Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) programme. In the past decade the team has built up a set of global expertise and has successfully worked closely with governments, communities and leading companies within and outside the region.