The death of thousands of Monarch butterflies was due to deforestation and cold, not pesticides as originally thought when a orange-and-black carpet of dead butterflies 50 metres wide by 200 long was found in February this year.
WWF-Switzerland has been awarded the coveted ISO-14001 Certificate. Now their challenge is to improve on the high standards they have already set.
Kamchatka, an isolated peninsula on Russia's eastern coast, is now looking at natural solutions to its energy crisis.
The certification - under the principles of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) - of 140,658 hectares of native forest located in the municipal district of Paragominas, in the state of Pará, will double the certified area of Amazon forests in Brazil.
Iceland could become the first modern economy in the world to run free of fossil fuels according to a recent joint WWF-Iceland Nature Conservation Association report.
The Iberian lynx, the most endangered cat species, as well as the only endemic large carnivore in Europe, stands to benefit from WWF's conservation initiatives.
Commitments made at a successful Danube-Carpathian summit on conservation and sustainable development must be backed up with international support says WWF.
Bucharest, Romania - The Romanian President, H.E. Ion Illiescu, has announced that Romania is committed to forest certification.
Bucharest, Romania - Heads of State and Ministers from the 14 countries of the Danube-Carpathian region, for the first time, today, gathered around one table as a summit to decide on an environmental strategy which goes beyond political borders started, said WWF, the conservation organization.
Conservationists have long been painfully aware of the disastrous effects of alien invasive vegetation.
