Founded: 22 September 1971
WWF Japan office
Founded: 22 September 1971
Contact
Shigeki Komori
Senior Conservation Officer, Forest and Lake Biwa Ecoregion Programmes
WWF Japan,
Tokyo
+81 3 3769 1713
Office
WWF Japan,
Tokyo
Nihonseimei Akabanebashi Bldg. 3-1-14 Shiba Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0014 Japan +81 3 3769 1711 +81 3 3769 1717
WWF Conservation Projects in Japan
Resource Security and Wildlife Trade - Timber
This project aims to contribute to the overall goal of the sustainable management of the timber trade. It will focus on improvements to the coordinati...
Japanese black bear conservation
The Japanese (Asiatic) black bear is the largest mammal found on Japan’s 3 major islands - Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku. But habitat loss, hunting and r...
Supporting Conservation of Asian Forests
Japan has close links with the timber trade in Indonesia and the Russian Far East. Both these areas have lost vast areas of forest to meet the demands...
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Mediterranean bluefin catches continue to mock quotas and science
New bluefin tuna catch estimates show
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.
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.
New emissions goal could make Japan climate leader
WWF welcomes today’s announcement by incoming Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to strengthen the country’s emission reduction target, aiming at 25% cuts from 1990 levels by 2020.
Norway, Japan prop up whaling industry with taxpayer money
Gland, Switzerland: The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling.
Japan’s emissions target: far too little, far too late
Bonn, Germany - Japan’s announcement to reduce its emissions by only 8 percent by 2020 completely lacks ambition and stands in the way of a fair global deal, which should save the world from the catastrophic impact of climate change, WWF said.
Japanese government misleads public with biased emission cuts figures - WWF
The Japanese government is misleading the public by presenting biased figures on Japan’s 2020 target for emission cuts, WWF said ahead of the country’s last public hearing on the issue.
Too much to whalers and not enough to conservation in IWC proposals on Japanese whaling: WWF
Two “compromise packages” to end the deadlock on so-called scientific whaling are too much of a compromise according to WWF.
Another fisheries commission throws the science overboard
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) today over-rode the advice of its science committee and rejected the recommendations of its chair in choosing only minor reductions in catch for bigeye and yellowfin tuna and watering down or deferring most measures for achieving reduced catches.
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.