The WWF UK office seeks to promote and raise awareness around the key environmental issues faces our planet today. Together with the WWF Network, it looks for solutions to these issues, engaging with governments, businesses and communities both in the UK and around the world.
Founded: 23rd November 1961
WWF United Kingdom (UK) office
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Saving the Treasures of the Sea
Project brochure on the North-East Atlantic ecoregion work to create networks of MPAs.
Baltic fish may be too toxic to be sold in the EU
Fish from some areas of the Baltic Sea are so contaminated that they may be too toxic for EU markets, warns WWF.
“Your view on food and farming”: WWF photo competition
With a Europe-wide photo competition launched today together with a web site on the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), WWF wants to showcase the richness of European rural life and the variety of its landscapes, as well as the environmental impacts of bad farming practices.
Guidelines for sustainable tourism investments in vulnerable ecological areas of the Mediterranean coasts
Aware of the importance of spreading sustainability principles through the entire tourism industry, WWF Mediterranean Programme Office initiated a project for the development of strategies and specific tools to be adopted by investors in the tourism sector to enable them to assess the ecological sustainability of their investments.
WWF and Vodacom link small island to mainland Tanzania
WWF and telecommunications giant, Vodacom, have helped link Mafia Island with mainland Tanzania under a network system with the hope of improving communications and the environment.
UK police seize illegal ivory in London raids
Following a series of raids across London, police have seized ivory products with a street value of over £85, 000, furthering efforts to crack down on the illegal ivory trade.
Atlantic fisheries commission protects cold-water corals from trawling
A regional fisheries management organization takes action to ban bottom trawling in five vulnerable deep-sea areas in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.
UK announces environmentally-friendly timber buying policy
After four years the British government has announced how it will implement its environmentally-friendly timber buying policy.