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Elephants and WWF staff form the flying squads in Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Their job is to drive back wild elephants that approach human settlements, where they can cause considerable damage, injuries and even death. Encroachment by palm oil plantations into elephant habitat have greatly increased conflicts between humans and elephants.

28 Aug 2008
New hope for Sumatra’s elephants and tigers as Indonesia doubles size of key national park
Jakarta, Indonesia: The government of Indonesia today declared its commitment to enlarging the most suitable block of forest for Sumatran elephants, expanding the vital Tesso Nilo National Park on Sumatra island to 86,000 hectares.
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The UK power sector increases its CO2 emissions.

27 Aug 2008
New progress agents emerge at UN climate talks in Accra
Accra, Ghana: As UN climate talks are coming to a close, WWF applauds an emerging group of visionary countries for showing ways to move the debate towards the right level of focus and detail. While the mandate to agree a new global climate treaty by 2009 remains a gigantic challenge, Accra shows that overcoming the muddle of conflicting views and crafting an effective deal to tackle climate change is possible and depends on the political will to show leadership.
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Some 200,000 endangered loggerhead turtles (<i>Caretta caretta</i>) drown annually on longlines set around the world for tuna, swordfish, and other fish.

26 Aug 2008
Fishing Technology That’s Letting Turtles Off the Hook
Santiago de Cali, Colombia - Alternative fishing technology has been shown to save turtles while not affecting fish catches, according to a report released by WWF and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC).

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21 Aug 2008
WWF urges Olympic spirit at critical UN climate talks in Ghana
Accra, Ghana: As UN climate talks enter their next round in the Ghanaian capital Accra, WWF encourages governments to have the Olympic spirit in mind when meeting at the negotiation table. In order to protect people and nature from dangerous climate change and gain sufficient ground on the road towards agreeing a new global climate treaty in Copenhagen in 2009, the Olympic motto “swifter – higher – stronger” has to guide the discussions.
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The Yangtze River - the Chinese Eden of biodiversity.

21 Aug 2008
Flow plan for less talk and more action as climate change hits rivers
Stockholm, Sweden - Managers and stakeholders in freshwater systems need to stop talking about adaptation to climate change and start doing it, WWF told the World Water Week symposium in Stockholm today.
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20 Aug 2008
UK citizens using 58 baths of water a day
Stockholm, Sweden - While each person in the UK drinks, hoses, flushes and washes their way through around 150 litres of mains water a day, they consume about 30 times as much in “virtual” water embedded in food, clothes and other items – the equivalent of about 58 bathtubs full of water every day. » Read more

Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park, Georgia.

20 Aug 2008
Caucasus countries need to cooperate on Georgia forest fires
WWF called on all parties capable of helping put out forest fires in central Georgia to work together to extinguish them.
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The EU Emissions Trading Directive will be central to achieving EU Kyoto Protocol targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to halt climate change and global warming.

20 Aug 2008
United Nations Climate Change Talks in Accra, Ghana, 21 – 27 August 2008
Media Advisory

From 21 to 27 August, governments gather in the Ghanaian capital Accra to continue critical negotiations about a new global climate treaty. After too little progress at recent talks in Bonn in June and a stalemate between developed and developing countries at the G8 summit in July, the political process has suffered major delays and is far from where it should be at this stage. Accra marks an opportunity to gain ground on the road to Copenhagen and speed up negotiations on crucial building blocks of the new global treaty, such as emission reductions, mitigation mechanisms, finance flows or technology transfer.

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19 Aug 2008
World needs global water agreement now
Stockholm, Sweden - WWF Director-General James Leape today called on governments to support the entry into force of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention—an international agreement which could play a key role in water security for about 40% of the world's population.
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Europe’s freshwater resources are threatened by overuse, pollution, and lack of appropriate water management. Intact freshwater ecosystems are becoming rare. Biebrza Marshes, Poland.

18 Aug 2008
Behind world food crisis is a world water crisis
Stockholm, Sweden - WWF Director General James Leape will tell the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm that a world water crisis is a key factor behind current global anxieties over faltering food supplies and rising food costs. » Read more

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