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Funding community conservation in New Zealand
To promote conservation in New Zealand, WWF has set up a special habitat protection fund for community groups to restore and protect important biodive...
Conservation Policy
The programme includes priority policy and advocacy work that does not fall within other programme areas, including global policy events such the Inte...
Environmental Education Programme
The programme aims to create the social context within which WWF can achieve its conservation objectives and generate support for the organisation ove...
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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.
Battered sharks get critical listing
Four of the most commercially valuable sharks - one a staple of fish and chips - have just been listed as being of conservation concern by the International Convention on Migratory Species. WWF has actively lobbied for this recognition
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.
Long flight to photo award for Albatross
Like many fishers, Cameron Long is a man of few words. But luckily, his photos speak for him. His stunning winning shot of a solitary Salvin's albatross, navigating its flight a few well-judged inches from the ocean's surface, tip of one wing breaking the water, expresses the perfection of the albatross in a way words fail to.
Winning photo of Selvin Albatross profiles threats to seabirds
A fisherman's photo of a Salvin's Albatross skimming the waters off New Zealand's South Island has won a photographic competition intended to highlight efforts to protect seabirds being harmed by fishing gear and activities.
Net gain for endangered dolphins
The rarest marine dolphin in the world – down to 111 individuals following decades of entanglement in fishing nets – is to receive protection over more of its range from the New Zealand government following several years of sustained WWF campaigning.
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.
Human well-being better in a better protected environment
Bonn, May 22, 2008 – Well planned and managed protected areas can play a key role in reducing poverty, with the relationship strengthened when well-being is measured as more than just income, according to a new analysis by WWF “But it is vital that those involved in establishing and managing protected areas remember that people are also part of the landscape,” said WWF's Liza Higgins-Zogib.
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.
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.