Published by the World Wildlife Fund One-third of all the food produced goes to waste; about 1.3 billion tons of fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, seafood, and grains go bad on the farm, get lost during distribution, or are thrown away in grocery stores, restaurants, and home kitchens. This is about three times the amount of food […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund The Arctic—home to diverse wildlife and many cultures—is changing faster than any other part of the planet in the face of climate change. Melting sea ice is already contributing to rising ocean levels worldwide and opening up new areas of the ocean for risky oil drilling. And polar bears, which […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme New GEO-6 website provides access to vital information and data Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27086&ArticleID=36282&l=en
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Unregulated carbon pollution from aviation is the fastest-growing source of the greenhouse gas emissions driving global climate change. In fact, if the entire aviation sector were a country, it would be one of the top 10 carbon-polluting nations on the planet. The good news is that we now have a […]
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Published by the World Wildlife Fund During the world’s largest ever wildlife trade meeting—the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)—governments united behind a series of tough decisions to provide greater protection to a host of threatened species and […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Anety is a wildlife police officer working in Zambia. She protects more than one hundred different species, including elephants, lions, and leopards, that call her park home. One of just three female wildlife rangers in her park, Anety works in a dangerous and under-resourced profession. Q: How did you end […]
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Published by the World Wildlife Fund Do banning bottled water, taking camera-trap photos of snow leopards, and establishing homestays have anything in common? In the mountains of North Sikkim in India, they do. All these activities are part of a successful ecotourism drive led by young people from the small village of Lachen that has already […]
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Seizure records in the database date back to 2005, and include any removal of great apes from unlawful situations. Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27084&ArticleID=36276&l=en
Published by the World Wildlife Fund All legal trade of pangolins, the world’s most trafficked mammals, will soon end thanks to an international agreement to further protect the critically endangered species from extinction. Countries decided to strengthen existing protections today at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a […]
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Rhinos, one of the oldest groups of mammals, are virtually living fossils. They once roamed across Africa’s savannas and Asia’s tropical forests, but today, very few rhinos survive outside of national parks and reserves. WWF has worked for decades to stop rhino poaching, increase rhino populations, and protect their vital […]
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Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme Check against delivery Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27085&ArticleID=36275&l=en
Published by the United Nations [UN] Environment Programme – Twenty innovative start-ups from eight African countries announced as winners of UN-backed SEED Awards for eco-inclusive innovation – Winners will receive technical assistance and six months of free, tailor-made support to develop their business Read the full article at: http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=27084&ArticleID=36274&l=en
Published by the World Wildlife Fund Africa’s elephant population has crashed by an estimated 111,000 in the past decade primarily due to poaching, according to the IUCN’s African Elephant Status Report. Released at the world’s largest wildlife trade conference, the authoritative report estimates that there are 415,000 elephants across the 37 range states in Africa—a huge […]
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Published by the World Wildlife Fund One of the best tools we have for fighting the illegal wildlife trade that threatens many of the world’s most endangered species is CITES— the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. This global agreement established in 1979 has since been signed by more than 170 governments. This month the […]