WWF started its projects in Azerbaijan in early 2000. It was legally registered as a Branch Office of WWF International in Azerbaijan by the Ministry of Justice in January 2006. As a member of the global WWF family, WWF Azerbaijan works in close cooperation with the WWF Caucasus Program Office based in Tbilisi, Georgia. All the Caucasian offices of the WWF have a common ecoregional vision, goals, and objectives identified by the Ecoregional Conservation Plan (ECP), which is the joint work of some 150 experts from the Caucasus.