Interview with Dr. Carlos Nobre, recipient of the WWF-Brazil Environment Personality Award
Dr. Carlos Nobre has received the 2009 Brazil Environment Personality Award for the tremendous contributions he has made towards an understanding of global warming and the impacts of climate change on the Amazon.
Experts view Hungarian conservation success from the air
Experts and leaders from WWF’s One Europe More Nature program celebrated their final meeting last week by taking a hot-air balloon flight over the region covered by the project in Hungary.
Saving the ‘Salad Bowl’: A personal account of the struggle to rehabilitate Filipino coral reefs
Through my foggy mask, I make out my dive buddy giving the go signal. I back-roll, ingloriously, into the turquoise waters of northern Batangas in the Philippines. Scant seconds pass as I find my bearings, but soon the scene unfolds: a pulsating shoal of blue green chromis, interspersed with a few ubiquitous sergeant majors, hail us to Poseidon’s realm.
Learning from “good” beetles key to sustainable cotton production
For Rajita Nandsee and many other families in her village, growing sustainable cotton means getting excited about insects – a sharp contrast to how farmers typically feel towards pests.
Mountain in recovery - Qingmuchuan’s first monitoring patrol since the May 12th earthquake
Six months have passed since the devastating May 12th earthquake struck western China’s Sichuan Province. Though there are still aftershocks, locals are trying to break away from horrible memories and stagger back into a normal daily life. And so, it seems, is the wildlife.
Giant Panda Habitat: Long road to recovery
Nearly six months after the May 12 earthquake devastated southwest China’s Sichuan Province, local residents are making big strides as they rise above the rubble.
Marina Silva: philosophy in practice
Interview with Marina Silva, winner of the 2008 WWF Duke of Edinburgh Medal
Common people, in their majority, envisage philosophers as persons who have lost contact with the real world and live somewhere between heaven and earth, in some kind of ideal realm, far from the ungracefulness of every day life. Maybe they are like that, or at least partly so, since their occupation is to understand and explain the human soul and the meaning of things.
The J Paul Getty Award for Conservation
“I believe that wildlife conservation, the work of World Wildlife Fund, is one of the most constructive enterprises that any man or woman could be interested in today…I get satisfaction out of having done my duty as I see it. If this prize makes more people concerned about conservation and thus makes the world a better place to live in, then I will be satisfied. “
Saving Sumatra’s Endangered Peoples
The Orang Rimba people have inhabited the jungles of Sumatra for centuries, traveling in tight-knit family groups in the Indonesian forests, hunting, fishing and collecting non-timber forest products on their traditional lands. Members of this indigenous tribe occasionally trade goods with villages on the edge of the forest, but prefer to keep to themselves. Now, as Sumatra’s forests disappear under the relentless onslaught of chainsaws and bulldozers, even keeping to themselves is becoming impossible.