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Conservation and environmental news & publications: Indonesia

Cover of WWF Coral Triangle programme Live Reef Food Fish Trade strategy

Coral Triangle Live Reef Fish Food Trade Brochure

Reef fish are a highly valuable natural asset in the Coral Triangle. Yet the current trade in this resource is destroying marine environments, depleting fish stocks and leaving coastal communities vulnerable. How can we change this dangerous course?

Posted on 20 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Coral Triangle Climate Change Brochure

At a time when global climate change projections point to an ecological and human catastrophe in the Coral Triangle, we must choose another future. But there isn't much time to act.

Posted on 19 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Coral Triangle Marine Protected Areas Brochure

Marine Protected Areas guard against environmental degradation and climate change. But in the Coral Triangle there are too few of them, and many have no finance and function ineffectively. This has to change.

Posted on 19 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Coral Triangle Marine Turtles Brochure

Across the Coral Triangle, entire populations of marine turtles are being wiped out. What will it take to bring them back?

Posted on 19 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Coral Triangle Tuna Brochure

Tuna feeds millions of people, sustains economies, and is an essetnial ecological link in the marine food web. But in the Coral Triangle, these benefits are on the brink of being list. So what do we do?

Posted on 19 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Houses of shrimp fishermen near Mogla, Sundarbans National Park, Bangladesh. Poverty is rife in the Sundarbans. These shrimp fishermen's houses are threatened by rising water levels due to climate change and the frequent storms that batter this area

G20 finance ministers fail to reach green on climate financing

Finance ministers of the world’s dominant economies failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, WWF said today as the G20 finance ministers meeting here broke up with no resolution to issues dividing developed and emerging economies.

Posted on 07 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

An Italian purse seine vessel fishing Mediterranean bluefin tuna

Genetic tuna tracking opens new options in race to save fish and fisheries

A new method that uses gene sequencing to accurately distinguish between tuna species has the potential to support fisheries management and possible trade restrictions for endangered tuna species.  The revelation closely follows news that an international wildlife trade convention is to consider a proposal to ban international trade in the Mediterranean tuna next March.

Posted on 27 October 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

The need for firewood is a major cause for deforestation in Nepal. Finding firewood is an ever more strenuous task, usually carried out by women.

Forests fundamental to effective climate deal

The world’s ability to control climate change could be crippled if global leaders do not support clear and effective targets to arrest deforestation at climate talks in Copenhagen in December, WWF said at the conclusion of a key global foresty summit. 

Posted on 25 October 2009 | 1 comments | Read more

Coral Reefs in the Coral Triangle

Coral Triangle summit to focus on business opportunities, environment protection

Business and policy leaders will get together in Manila next year to debate how to protect the Coral Triangle, the world’s most diverse marine environment.

Posted on 23 October 2009 | 1 comments | Read more

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