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Conservation and environmental news & publications: Spain

The Azores is one of the best preserved deep sea environments in European waters.

03 Jul 2008
Azores faces fishing out after court appeal fails
A Court ruling has cleared the way for even more intensive fishing of one of the Atlantic’s most diverse deep sea habitats. » Read more

Massive CO2 emissions: The power sector is the biggest climate polluter. Tough caps on CO2 under a strong ETS can trigger a switch from dirty coal power to clean and efficient alternatives.

07 Apr 2008
EU carbon market sets up another round of windfall profits for dirtiest power generators
Polluting electricity generators in Europe are set to reap another round of extraordinary windfall profits from the carbon trading scheme meant to curb their carbon emissions, a new report revealed today.
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The Mediterranean's tuna fleet needs to shed a third of its vessels to fish within the law, and even more to save bluefin stocks according to scientific advice - but 25 new boats are currently under construction

12 Mar 2008
Bloated Mediterranean tuna fleet in race for the last bluefin
Rome, Italy – The most comprehensive analysis yet of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fleet shows it conservatively having twice the fishing capacity of current quotas and more than three and a half times the catch levels recommended by scientists to avoid stock collapse. » Read more

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

Mediterranean bluefin tuna — highly prized around the world, especially in Japan for sushi and sashimi — has been under increasing pressure from overfishing. Display of frozen tunas to be auctioned at the Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan.

28 Jan 2008
Join retailers’ Mediterranean bluefin tuna boycott, urges WWF
As more and more major European retailers boycott Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna, WWF used the occasion of the Barcelona Seafood Summit to call on more to join the ban until the imperilled species is out of the danger zone.
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28 Jan 2008
Join retailers’ Mediterranean bluefin tuna boycott, urges WWF
Rome, Italy - WWF is calling on retailers to follow the example of several major European supermarket chains and stop selling Mediterranean bluefin tuna until the imperilled species is out of the danger zone. » 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

WWF points out that the over-exploitation of fossil fuels - such as coal, gas and oil - is putting the whole of humanity under threat from climate change.

17 Nov 2007
No excuse for climate inaction
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should send a strong signal to political leaders and governments that the reality of human-induced global warming is beyond any reasonable doubt. » Read more

The Iberian lynx (<I>Lynx pardinus</I>) is the world's most endangered wild cat species.

23 Oct 2007
New lynx population discovered in Spain
Spanish authorities have announced the discovery of a previously unknown population of Iberian lynx, triggering hope for the world’s most endangered cat species. » Read more

Bluefin tuna catches are declining in the Mediterranean at a rapid rate.

03 Sep 2007
Bluefin tuna sanctuary needed to save fish species in western Mediterranean
WWF is calling for the immediate establishment of a sanctuary for the imperilled bluefin tuna around Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. » Read more

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