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Severely degraded mangroves due to rising sea levels and clearing for commercial shrimp and salt farms, Thailand. These factors have contributed greatly to the destruction of large tracts of coastal mangroves in the country.

05 Mar 2008
This time, world should heed OECD call to action on environment
Paris: The OECD’s Environment Outlook to 2030, issued today, was welcomed by WWF as yet another compelling argument that the costs of inaction on the environment will far exceed the costs of action.

The OECD Outlook is the latest - and at 520 pages one of the weightiest - in a run of reports from prominent economic institutions and commissions calling on governments and international institutions to face up to the seriousness and immediacy of global environmental problems. » Read more

According to WWF's Living Planet Report, humanity’s Ecological Footprint – the demand people place upon the natural world – has increased to the point where the Earth is unable to keep up in the struggle to regenerate.

19 Nov 2007
EU economies living beyond ecological means
The growing economic strength of the European Union has doubled the ecological pressure on the planet in the past 30 years, according to a new WWF report. » Read more

22 Aug 2007
Baltic Sea governments get bad grades for marine protection
Regional governments are failing in their efforts to protect and conserve the Baltic Sea, according to a WWF scorecard launched at this year's International Baltic Sea Festival. » Read more

Report - Feeding the algae with tax money: EUTRO-farming and EU-trophication

03 Jul 2007
Feeding the algae with tax money: EUTRO-farming and EU-trophication
The Baltic Sea is the largest brackishwater sea in the world. It is also the youngest sea on the planet which makes it one of the world’s most unique ecosystems. Over the past 100 years however the Baltic Sea has changed from a clear-water ecosystem to a eutrophic – nutrient rich – marine environment. » Read more

03 Jul 2007
EU-trophication: Linking tax money to eutrophication of the Baltic Sea

Over the last century humans have transformed the Baltic Sea – a unique and highly vulnerable place – from a clear-water ecosystem into a eutrophic (nutrient rich) marine environment. Today, it is heavily contaminated by nutrients that cause eutrophication, algal blooms and a range of serious problems for the ecosystem and for the people living around, and earning a living from, the Baltic Sea.

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03 May 2007
A place like no other: the Baltic Sea
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03 May 2007
WWF recipe for legal fish in the Baltic Sea
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After a 100 year absence, European gray wolves are returning to the Swiss Alps.

02 Jun 2006
Europe losing species and habitats at a dramatic rate
According to a series of surveys carried out by WWF and its partners as part of the European Habitats Forum (EHF), the diversity of Europe’s wildlife and habitats continues to be lost at a dramatic rate. » Read more

From the beginning of September up to the end of October, black storks migrate over Europe towards their hibernating grounds in Africa.

02 Sep 2005
Europe’s Natura 2000 Network… as the Black storks see it
WWF-Belgium and the European Commission officially launched their project ‘Flying over Natura 2000’ today » Read more

11 Aug 2005
Extreme Weather – Summer temperature graphs for European cities
Summer temperature graphs showing the warming trend in the EU capital cities » Read more

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