Identifican 28 Áreas Marino-Costeras de alto valor de conservación en Magallanes
Se espera que esta información sea un aporte relevante para la conservación de 17 ecosistemas marinos y 53 especies, entre las que se cuentan el elefante marino, la foca leopardo, el huillín, el chungungo, corales de aguas frías y diversas especies de pingüinos, albatros, petreles, delfines y ballenas.
CONAF y WWF Chile firman convenio para apoyar áreas protegidas en Los Ríos
Un relevante convenio enfocado a la consolidación del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado (SNASPE) de la Región de Los Ríos, fue suscrito entre la Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF) de Los Ríos y WWF Chile, la organización mundial de conservación.
Polar bears and penguins 'just tip of climate change iceberg'
New evidence from the North and South Poles indicates that time is running out for the world’s leaders to respond to climate change.
Green economy will help fight climate change
New figures released today show that moving to a “green” global economy could not only protect the planet from the worst effects of climate change but is surprisingly affordable.
Pacific tuna face risky fisheries meeting
Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific also face collapse if a forthcoming management meeting doesn't dramatically change the way they are harvested, WWF warned today.
Fisheries, not whales, to blame for shortage of fish
The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organizations said today as the International Whaling Commission opened its 60th meeting in Santiago, Chile.
Whales set to chase shrinking feed zones
Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean whales has found.
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.
Lethal whale "research" programmes produce meat, not answers: WWF
Japan would do better whale research by not killing whales, said WWF on the eve of a key International Whaling Commission planning meeting.
Today, much more plentiful and reliable information is available using the many better new ways of collecting whale data rather than much the same old ways of killing them.
Indigenous peoples win conservation successes in Chile
A near 20 year struggle for land rights and conservation of their rare Araucaria forests for an indigenous Pehuenche community of the Andes range has been rewarded with a grant of title to 22,000 acres of land in southern Chile.
