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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...
PARIS, France -- With the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) on the verge of collapse after France withdrew from the negotiations, WWF urges the OECD countries to make sustainable development the cornerstone of any future investment agreement.
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Trade Organization has failed to correct its bias against environment in the last chance it had in the famous 'shrimp-turtle' case, the conservation organization WWF said here today.
The WWF Earth Report, a global weekly environmental programme on television, is being launched today in China, opening new horizons for nearly 350 million Chinese television viewers.
Once the second most important source of biodiversity on the American continent, the Inner Atlantic Forest is now largely reduced to a string of `green islands'. But three countries have found the collective will to preserve and possibly recreate it.
The life of France is so bound up with the motor car that the decision to hold a car-free day in Paris and 34 other cities came almost as a shock. Not only that, but most French people supported the idea. It is the sort of thing that helps to make the life of the environmentalist worthwhile.
Over the years, China has made strenuous efforts to protect its rich wildlife, but the difficulties are as enormous as the country. Now significant changes in public attitudes offer new hope for China's endangered species.
Growing numbers of commercial logging companies are realizing that the Forest Stewardship Council certificate represents good business as well as good environmental practice. But the verification procedure is very strict.
The loss of tiger habitats has significant implications for millions of people on the Indian sub-continent, even though they may not realize it. But a symbolic link between tigers and the forests where they live may be a tool conservationists can use.
BANC D'ARGUIN, Mauritania - To allow sustainable management of the fish population in Mauritania's Parc National du Banc d'Arguin WWF has raised 400,000 Swiss francs...