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Search for an articleWWF Calls For Designating Wadden Sea as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
WWF has called on countries bordering the North Sea to declare the Wadden Sea a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area. Europe's largest coastal wetland - the Wadden Sea - is struggling to recover... ...
ICCAT Must Ensure Recovery of Threatened Bluefin Tuna, Says WWF
WWF called on Atlantic tuna fishing nations to honour their commitment to adopt a bona fide recovery plan for severely depleted bluefin tuna stocks as they meet this week at.....
Japan Begins 12th Scientific Whale Hunt With New Boat
GLAND, Switzerland -- WWF urged Japan to reconsider its large-scale scientific whaling as it flagged off its whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean for the 12th year in a row. ...
Nations Draft Agreement On Fishing Fleet Overcapacity
30 October 1998 ROME, Italy -- A UN fisheries meeting this week drafted a global action plan to address one of the most important factors contributing to overfishing--too many boats chasing too few fish. However,....
FAO Set To Tackle Major Fisheries Threats
ROME, Italy -- The conservation organization WWF today urged the worlds fishing nations at the FAO fisheries meeting which opens this week to develop effective action plans to address the growing problems of fishing fleet overcapacity...
WWF FISHERIES CONFERENCE SEEKS SOLUTIONS TO CURRENT CRISIS:
LISBON -- At the start of an international fisheries conference here today, the conservation organization WWF made three major announcements which highlight solutions to the global fisheries crisis...
DISTANT WATER FISHING THREATENS WORLD FISHERIES
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Oversized, distant water fishing fleets are pillaging the worlds oceans, often in the waters of developing countries where they threaten the existence of local fisheries, WWF warned today.
Water: Going with the flow
As Sweden prepares to present its eighth Stockholm Water Prize, the new interest of big business in global water supply offers an opportunity for investment in the earth's most precious resource. But conservation and management must be top of the agenda.
The One That Got Away
A leopard may not be able to change his spots, but farming communities can change their attitudes so that rare and valuable species may be helped to recover from the brink of extinction.
WWF & IUCN Outline 'Vision for Our Blue Planet' on World Oceans Day
At EXPO '98, the conservation organization WWF and the IUCN-World Conservation Union, today released their first-ever global strategy for marine conservation: Creating a Sea Change: A Vision for Our Blue Planet.