A new book charges the world's biggest conservation group with forging links with global corporations that are using its name to 'greenwash' environmentally damaging activities, writes John Vidal - in the process becoming too close to industry, and over-dependent on corporate funding.
… WWF International accused of 'selling its … and over-dependent on corporate funding. WWF International, the world's largest … businesses which destroy nature and use the WWF brand to "greenwash" their operations. The …
The OECD is pursuing a complaint that WWF has funded abuses against the indigenous forest-dwelling Baka or 'Pygmy' peoples of Cameroon, after determining that its human rights guidelines do apply to WWF owing to the 'commercial nature' of its conservation activities.
… OECD takes up complaint that WWF has funded abuses of Cameroon's forest … The OECD is pursuing a complaint that WWF has funded abuses against the indigenous … that its human rights guidelines do apply to WWF owing to the 'commercial nature' of its …
'Conservation' is destroying those who've nurtured their surroundings for timeless generations, writes Stephen Corry - the Indigenous Peoples who have actually fashioned those precious places that we now mistake as 'natural'. It's time for a new conservation ethic that recognizes them as senior partners - not as 'squatters'' and 'poachers' to be evicted and criminalized.
… publicity for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) posed a very odd question: whether to … outsiders, including "greed and corruption." WWF's answer to this apparent dilemma was … when we showed them the advertisement. For WWF to blame 'duped' tribespeople for …
A new investigation of palm oil plantations, companies and auditors has found that the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is failing to deliver on its promise, writes Chris Lang. Widespread fraud, collusion between auditors and companies, conflicts of interest, and a flawed complaints system mean that RSPO-certified palm oil may be destructively and illegally produced.
… 2004 following a series of meetings between WWF and palm oil companies. According to WWF , "One of the huge successes of the … palm oil." On its website about the RSPO, WWF has a promotional video for the RSPO. It …
Austrian timber company Schweighofer is linked to large-scale illegal logging which accounts for half of Romania's timber production. An EIA investigation finds that almost all the illegal timber ends up in the company's mills.
… economy of over €5 billion. Also today, WWF filed a complaint at the Federal Forest … significant tax benefits. Magor Csibi from WWF Romania added that it should be economic … Romania's forests need EU protection WWF has, based on available report and …
Martin Spray reviews Protest Inc. - and is discomforted do find quite how deeply corporate money and influence has penetrated into our biggest conservation organizations.
… seems a small matter to argue over, but WWF (the well-known conservation organisation) … two years before had sued the then WWF for appropriating its initials. Meanwhile, … but institutions. An example is the WWF, which defends its selective use of the …
Multinational paper and palm oil companies are rushing to declare 'zero deforestation' policies. It looks like a huge victory for the rainforests and forest peoples, but Peter Gerhardt asks - what is a no-deforestation promise really worth?"
… products. Global NGOs like Greenpeace and WWF appear to have success in what Indonesian … sustainability strategy also comprises the WWF. This is particularly remarkable as the … from tropical forests. After a few years, the WWF was exasperated and gave up. Further …
Big conservation NGOs increasingly resemble the nature-destroying corporations they should be opposing, writes Margi Prideaux. This ideological capture is reflected in their vapid marketing to conservation 'consumers'; the serious abuse of indigenous communities they should be engaging as partners; and their willing sacrifice of core objectives to money and influence.
… Even worse is the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), which stands accused of breaches of OECD … The complaint in question alleges that WWF has financed and supported ecoguards that … whistle on another NGO), has this to say: "WWF knows that the men its supporters fund for …
This World Fisheries Day, a new report shows how the 'rights-based approach' to fisheries governance is in fact a mechanism for depriving indigenous and subsistence fisherfolk of their traditional waters, write Astrid Alexandersen, Sif Juhl & Jonathan Munk Nielsen, and transferring them to corporations and economic elites. It must be replaced with a 'human rights approach'.
… Sachs and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are now heavily involved and consulted on … policy. Indeed both Goldman Sachs and WWF have been discussing how the pursuit of …
The Democratic Republic of Congo is to consult UNESCO, writes Melanie Gouby, over its wish to 'explore judiciously' for oil in Africa's first and most biodiverse National Park and World Heritage Site.
… pressure following a global campaign by WWF and the documentary Virunga , Soco …
Sweden's biodiverse ancient forests will be largely wiped out within two decades, writes Alec Forss - and along with it will go thousands of species that depend on mature forest ecosystems. But with powerful logging companies riding roughshod over the law, regulators, politicians and certifiers, who is to stop the destruction before it's too late?
… habitat for many species. A report by the WWF cites the severe lack of dead wood as …
As the global assault on indigenous lands intensifies, the world's largest conservation group, the IUCN, has just voted at its World Conservation Congress for the sacred natural sites and territories of indigenous peoples to be recognised as 'No-Go Areas' for destructive industrial scale activities, writes Hal Rhoades - and for corporations to permanently withdraw from such areas.
… and palm oil rises. Earlier this year, a WWF report revealed that over half of all …
As ever more companies and governments pledge to 'go green' and protect forests, the world's tribal peoples should be among the main beneficiaries, writes Amy Dickens. Yet the reverse is the case. All too often the promises are purest greenwash, used to conceal the human and environmental tragedy of land-grabbing for plantations, mines, logging and even 'conservation'.
… Resources Institute, and founding member WWF . Despite these reputable credentials, …
Coroprate tax dodging is costing developing countries $212 billion a year, writes Toby Quantrill, and promised action by the OECD has been a damp squib. Now independent experts have come up with their own answers to the problem - beginning with an end to the 'separate entity' fiction that allows profits to be siphoned to shell companies in zero-tax jurisdictions.
… and trade, with organizations including WWF-UK, VSO, the Fairtrade Foundation and …