Europe must take responsibility for global forest protection
With the world's forests facing ever increasing threats from climate change and pressing demands such as bio-fuels, WWF is calling on Europe, as a major wood importer and consumer, to take more responsibility in tackling deforestation.
Poland must apply the rule for Baltic cod
Although the EU has closed cod fisheries for the Polish fleet in the eastern Baltic Sea, Poland has allowed fishermen to continue operating this week, thus breaking international law and putting the endangered stock at greater risk of collapse.
Baltic Sea governments get bad grades for marine protection
Regional governments are failing in their efforts to protect and conserve the Baltic Sea, according to a WWF scorecard launched at this year's International Baltic Sea Festival.
European Commission takes last-minute action to stop illegal expressway construction in Poland
Environmental NGOs, including WWF, support the European Commission’s decision to ask the European Court of Justice to halt imminent construction of the Via Baltica expressway through the pristine Rospuda Wetlands in north-east Poland.
Feeding the algae with tax money: EUTRO-farming and EU-trophication
The Baltic Sea is the largest brackishwater sea in the world. It is also the youngest sea on the planet which makes it one of the world’s most unique ecosystems. Over the past 100 years however the Baltic Sea has changed from a clear-water ecosystem to a eutrophic – nutrient rich – marine environment.
EU-trophication: Linking tax money to eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
Over the last century humans have transformed the Baltic Sea – a unique and highly vulnerable place – from a clear-water ecosystem into a eutrophic (nutrient rich) marine environment. Today, it is heavily contaminated by nutrients that cause eutrophication, algal blooms and a range of serious problems for the ecosystem and for the people living around, and earning a living from, the Baltic Sea.
Protected Areas for a Living Planet - Carpathian Ecoregion Project
Factsheet on WWF’s Protected Areas for a Living Planet Carpathian Ecoregion Project - which aims to help governments from the ecoregion meet their bold commitment to creating a global network of protected areas.
EU governments failing the forests
European governments are dragging their heels on a key EU initiative designed to tackle illegal logging, according to a new WWF assessment.