New proposals for governments to break the current deadlock in international talks on global warming provide some basis for hope, despite signs of a pandering to the Bush administration and a weakening of the target of the Kyoto Protocol, WWF said today.
WWF and two Swedish NGOs, the Swedish Society for the Marine Environment (S-MAR), and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), have filed a complaint with the European Commission against the Swedish Government for failing to meet Community obligations to protect the harbour porpoise.
In the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the rare eastern lowland gorilla is being wiped out as a source of food for miners who are seeking the valuable mineral coltan: used by high tech companies in the west for many modern electronic products.
WWF, in co-operation with the PAN Parks Organization, today launched a new project enabling tourists to help preserve the endangered primeval forest of Bialowieza National Park (Poland) by booking a green adventure on-line via http://www.poland.panparks.org.
From deep within the forests that shroud the Eastern Mau Escarpment arise 3 rivers, Njoro, Makalia and Enderit, that drain into Lake Nakuru, Kenya. These rivers sustain more than 500,000 people, their livestock and other forms of life.
Boumba Bek and Nki, in South-East Cameroon, are the last two remaining tracts of virgin rainforest in the country. Largely hilly and protected by large rivers, Boumba Bek and Nki remain untouched by human development and logging.
The PEFC system does not comply with the basic requirements for forest certification, according to a new WWF report.
Stralsund, Germany - WWF, the conservation organization, today reiterated its call for stricter measures to reduce the risk of shipping incidents. The call comes as the Danish islands of Bongoe and Faroe are hit by oil slicks from the tanker Baltic Carrier, which was holed in a collision with a freighter near Falster late on Wednesday night.
Following the collision of tanker and freighter outside the Darss peninsula, the Baltic sea is threatened by an oil catastrophe. At least a thousand tonnes of oil have leaked from the tanker and are now floating towards the Danish coast.
WWF is joining with local and international partners to save Africa's third longest river.
