World Wildlife Fund

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• WWF CEO Praises President-Elect Obama For Remarks At Governors Global Climate Summit

  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) CEO Carter Roberts praised President-elect Barack Obama for his remarks today before the Governors’ Global Climate Summit being held in Los Angeles. 

  November 18, 2008

• World Wildlife Fund Hosts Biofuels Symposium

  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will host “Biofuels: Which Are More Sustainable?” on November 19-20, 2008, this year’s Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Symposium.

  November 18, 2008

• Humans and Elephants on a Collision Course in South Asia

  The massive international investment in large-scale infrastructure projects in South Asia will increase human-elephant conflict and cause more losses on both sides unless greater care is taken, cautions a new report from WWF

  November 17, 2008

• Tuna Commission To Decide The Future Of Mediterranean Bluefin

  The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will meet from November 17- 24 in Marrakech, Morocco to make decisions on measures to save Mediterranean bluefin tuna from collapse.

  November 17, 2008

• World’s Salmon Aquaculture Industry Leaders Meet to Develop Standards

  More than 80 of the world’s salmon aquaculture industry stakeholders – including producers, NGO representatives, retailers, government representatives and scientists – met here this week to move forward with developing global standards for salmon aquaculture. The standards, when adopted, will help minimize or eliminate the salmon farming industry’s key impacts on the environment and society.

  November 13, 2008

• Seriola and Cobia Aquaculture Dialogue Kicks Off in February

  The process of creating the world’s first set of credible standards for minimizing the key environmental and social impacts of the cobia and Seriola aquaculture industries will begin in February, when the inaugural meeting of the Seriola and Cobia Aquaculture Dialogue is held.

  November 12, 2008

• Dr. Michael Oppenheimer to Speak at World Wildlife Fund

  Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University professor and a leading scholar on global warming, will discuss “Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference: The Latest Insights” at World Wildlife Fund on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 4:30 p.m.  The lecture is part of the Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminar series, which brings distinguished scientists from a variety of fields to Washington, D.C. to present cutting edge research of central importance to international conservation. 

  November 12, 2008

• Wildlife Consumption in China Rising

  China’s traditional medicine trade has grown at annual rate of 10 percent since 2003, with exports valued at 144 million dollars to North America alone says a new report from TRAFFIC that reviewed wildlife trade in China in 2007.

  November 11, 2008

• Feedback on Draft Standards for Tilapia Aquaculture to be Focus of December Dialogue Meeting

  Feedback on draft standards for tilapia aquaculture that is received during the first public comment period for the standards will be reviewed at the next meeting of the Tilapia Aquaculture Dialogue. The meeting will be December 15-16 at the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) US headquarters in Washington, DC.

  November 07, 2008

• WWF Congratulates President-Elect Obama

  Carter Roberts, CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), issued the following statement tonight following the election of Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as President of the United States.

  November 04, 2008

• The Coca-Cola System Announces New Global Targets

  The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, while promoting sustainable agricultural practices and helping to conserve the world’s most important freshwater basins.

  October 30, 2008

• Living Planet Report Details Dangers Of Living Beyond The Environment's Means

  As global financial markets learn difficult lessons on the consequences of unregulated spending, a new report issued by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warns of the danger to future prosperity if the reckless over-consumption of the Earth’s natural capital is left unchecked. 

  October 29, 2008

• WWF Announces Williams-Sonoma, Inc. As Newest Member Of Global Forest and Trade Network

  World Wildlife Fund announced today that Williams-Sonoma, Inc. has joined the Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN), WWF’s initiative to save the world’s most valuable and threatened forests.

  October 27, 2008

• Amazon’s champion Awarded WWF’s Duke of Edinburgh Medal

  The 2008 WWF Duke of Edinburgh Conservation medal has been awarded to former Brazilian Environment Minister Her Excellency Senator Marina Silva.

  October 27, 2008

• Virunga Conflict Escalates, Gorillas at Risk

  The ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has recently intensified. As a result more than 50 Congolese park rangers fled to safety from Virunga National Park and more than 800,000 people have been displaced. There are also reports that the rebels have advanced to just outside of Goma – the regional capital – threatening the stability of the entire country.

  October 27, 2008

• World Wildlife Fund Launches Expanded Holiday Gift Catalog To Support Global Conservation Efforts

  Holiday gifts come in all shapes and sizes, but the best gifts keep on giving far beyond the holiday season. World Wildlife Fund (WWF)’s new 2008-2009 Gift Catalog provides holiday shoppers a convenient way to give a gift that not only warms hearts, but will help protect species around the globe and their habitats for decades to come.

  October 27, 2008

• Getty Prize For Conservation Awarded To Community Leader From Madagascar

  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced that Roger Samba has been named the winner of the 2008 J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership. The annual award honors outstanding contributions to international conservation and carries with it a $200,000 prize.

  October 26, 2008

• WWF Promotes Responsible Forest Management and Trade

   

  October 16, 2008

• WWF Provides Presidential Candidates Roadmap to a Safer, Sustainable Future

  On the day of the third and final presidential debate, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has publicly released its “Greenprint” agenda – a policy roadmap for the next administration to address global threats to environmental, social and political stability in four key areas: climate change, conservation of natural resources, food security and freshwater availability.  The WWF Greenprint highlights how these challenges are intertwined, and how they can – and should – be solved by the next President.

  October 15, 2008

• Trout Aquaculture Dialogue Kicks Off in November

  The process of creating the world’s first set of credible standards for minimizing the key environmental and social impacts of the trout aquaculture industry will begin in November, when the inaugural meeting of the Trout Aquaculture Dialogue is held.

  October 15, 2008

• Plight Of The Penguins: WWF Report Shows Climate Change Likely To Imperil Penguin Populations

  Half to three-quarters of major Antarctic penguin colonies – including the iconic Emperor Penguin, which was made famous by the blockbuster hit March of the Penguins – will likely experience significant decline or disappearance as a result of climate change, according to a new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

  October 10, 2008

• Successes in Sumatra Bring Hope for Wildlife

  “We, all the governors of Sumatra…..” With those words began an historic island-wide agreement to protect Sumatra’s biodiversity. This landmark decision will restore critical ecosystems, protect high conservation value forests – including those that store high levels of carbon – and create ecosystem-based plans to guide environmentally friendly development on the island. WWF applauds this commitment, and believes it is the best chance we’ve ever had to save Sumatra’s forests and species.

  October 09, 2008

• Saving Sumatra: Indonesia Reaches Historic Agreement To Protect World’s Most Endangered Tropical Forests

  The Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today announced a bold commitment to protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems of Sumatra, an Indonesian island that holds some of the world’s most diverse – and endangered – forests. The historic agreement represents the first-ever island-wide commitment to protect Sumatra’s stunning biodiversity.

  October 09, 2008

• People and Nature to Benefit from Innovative Private-Public Partnership

  A three-year partnership to integrate health, population and environmental needs for rural communities in Kenya, Nepal and the Democratic Republic of Congo was announced by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Johnson & Johnson, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) at a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding today.

  October 08, 2008

• Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue to Meet in United Kingdom

  The world’s salmon aquaculture industry leaders will meet in the United Kingdom in November to move forward with developing measurable standards for salmon farming. The standards will help minimize the industry’s key impacts on the environment and society.

  October 08, 2008