WWF Malaysia has called on authorities to regulate highland development as part of its short and long term flood mitigating measures in the country.
Tallahassee, Florida - An enthusiastic audience of commercial fishermen, schoolchildren, sportfishing guides and conservationists cheered yesterday in the Florida Capital as Governor Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet voted unanimously to approve the Tortugas Reserve.
In the mountains of Central Asia lives the endangered snow leopard that now faces a new foe: bone traders.
WWF will take centre stage in the European Commission's prestigious 'Green Week' opening today in Brussels, Belgium.
Over 40 environment ministers met in New York on 21 April to continue discussions on the Kyoto Protocol. WWF urged all countries to move forward vigorously to ensure that the US does not block finalization of the Kyoto Protocol this July in Bonn.
Washington--WWF praised President Bush's announcement that he will sign the treaty on persistent organic pollutants as a good first step toward banishing some of the world's most toxic chemicals from the face of the Earth.
Rivers in EU and accession countries will have to be revived and restored to a more natural state to meet new water standards agreed by EU governments said WWF, the conservation organization, at the launch of a new WWF study on the state of Europe's rivers, lakes and wetlands.
Brasilia (18 April 2001) - A new phase of the SOS Forest Campaign was launched yesterday to stop legislation in Brazil being weakened to allow increased clearance of forests for agricultural use.
The Summit on Environment and Sustainable Development in the Carpathian and Danube Region will be held in Bucharest, April 29-30.
Every adult is walking around with literally dozens of man-made chemicals in their body. Several hundred man-made chemicals have now been detected as human contaminants. Toxic chemicals are widespread, and some are even passed from mother to baby in the womb and in human breast milk. There is probably not a creature on earth without traces of man-made chemicals in its tissues - substances that barely existed at the beginning of the last century.
