In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon
… WWF calls for 'scaling up' of beef production … The Ecologist | 22nd February 2011 News WWF Brazil Deforestation Beef Food And Farming … Amazon In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing …
Newspaper apologises for article that disputed 'peer-reviewed scientific evidence' that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk from climate change
… newspaper has now admitted the claims in a WWF report , used by the Intergovernmental … by peer-reviewed scientific evidence. The WWF report ' Global Review of Forest Fires ' … but not referenced as such in the report. WWF admitted the error but said it had told …
"Most of the recently discovered plants and animals are thought to be endemic to small parts of the Amazon rainforest."
… on the list of Amazon discoveries released by WWF today. It includes a total of 258 plants, … of Programmes for Brazil and the Amazon at WWF-UK. "The richness of the Amazon's forests … * Through its Living Amazon Initiative , WWF is working towards a comprehensive …
From the creation of the very first national parks and game reserves, 'conservation' has always been about repressing and expropriating indigenous tribes, Survival International director Stephen Corry told Alice Bayer. And despite all the evidence that indigenous peoples are the best wildlife managers, old attitudes die hard ...
… guards that depend on financial support from WWF; tiger reserves in India , which are used … a generation ago remain threatened today. WWF says that Earth has lost half its wildlife … Conservation still routinely profits from it. WWF calls it a 'legitimate tool', a …
While other countries apply themselves to environmental challenges from climate change to nature protection, Russia - with its massive wealth of nature and natural resources - is stubbornly refusing to take part, writes Lucy E J Woods. And as the economy declines, the pressure is on: to ignore environmental regulations, and clamp down on environmental defenders.
… 60s" and forgot all about renewables, says WWF Russia's extractive industries … words across a huge round oak table in the WWF Moscow office. He is passionate when the … world heritage site. Knizhnikov explains WWF have been fighting the Altai pipeline …
Indigenous forest dwellers in India's iconic Kanha Tiger Reserve have suffered another round of illegal forced evictions at the hands of the country's Tiger Conservation Authority - a move that is threatening the future of the tigers themselves.
… in a letter to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), which has been providing infrastructural … can. What next? Survival is now awaiting from WWF answers to a number of questions, including what steps WWF-India has taken to oppose forced …
The respected Russian campaign group Sakhalin Environment Watch is being forced to choose between registering as a 'foreign agent' label and closing down, writes Oliver Tickell. Environmental campaigning, it seems, is now a 'political activity'.
… Welfare (IFAW). It is also supported by WWF Russia. Most recently it received a … As evidence the report cites: a link to a WWF Russia statement on the need to protect …
Spain's Coto Doñana shows the value of EU conservation law, writes Laurence Rose, as the UK tries to get rid of the Birds and Habitats Directives. Both have proved essential to the protection and restoration of one of Europe's greatest wetlands.
… dry. My NGO colleagues in SEO/BirdLife and WWF Spain were fighting hard and their … of families. By this time, SEO/BirdLife and WWF Spain had come of age and were leading the …
Brazilian government urged to start paying farmers to protect Amazon land as it pushes on with plans to scrap historic forest protection laws
… cent of land owners still operate illegally). WWF’s Claudio Maretti, who works in the Amazon … to reducing deforestation ‘fragile’. WWF-Brazil meanwhile says the changes would … Speaking to the Ecologist earlier this year, WWF chief executive Denise Hamu, called for …
Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims' over Sumatran rainforest carbon reserve
… could be contributing to illegal logging - WWF Many consumers mistakenly think that wood …
Ten-year project will look at whether setting-aside natural forests within oil palm plantations can save threatened species such as the Orang-utan, Pygmy Elephant and Clouded Leopard
… Among those also attending the launch, WWF said it suspected the study may find out … a difference to conservation efforts,' said WWF Malaysia CEO Dr Dionysuis Sharma, 'but it …
Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action
… fine for individuals, but which for NGOs like WWF, with big budgets, could be huge. The … number of other environmental groups like WWF and MCS who realise the importance of the …
Despite a raft of legislation to protect our wildlife, 60% of our key species are in decline, writes Jenny Jones. That's why we need a new and positive approach, going beyond protection to rebuilding flourishing, sustainable wildlife populations. And people too will see the benefits - in our own as is our health and wellbeing.
… by the Zoological Society of London and WWF in their Living Planet Report. This report …
The International Court of Justice has ordered Japan to revoke its 'scientific whaling' permits in the Antarctic and cease to issue new ones as they are not for scientific purposes. Next, the North Pacific ...
… Global Cetacean and Marine Turtle Manager for WWF International. "Protecting whales in the …
Death threats to an indigenous forest defender in Peru have followed his success in closing down an illegal palm oil operation on his tribe's lands carried out by a member company of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, now meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
… to cover up poor and illegal practice. WWF, which helped to creat the RSPO, said it … being followed" , said Adam Harrison of WWF. At the meeting, the RSPO also focused on …
After a significant drop in the last several years, the annual deforestation rates in Brazil raised 28% for the period August 2012-July 2013, according to INPE, the Brazilian Spatial Institute.
… deforestation." Claudio Maretti, leader of WWF Living Amazon Global Initiative, …
The House of Commons has passed a government amendment to strengthen environmental protection in the EU Withdrawal Bill. However, critics said it would still result in lower protection than the UK has currently, writes CATHERINE EARLY
… loss, he added. Environment Act needed WWF executive director Tony Juniper said that …
Conservationists battling to save Indonesia's rainforests are locked in a dispute over moves to make oil palm plantations more wildlife-friendly. Tom Levitt reports
… ecosystem - are lost during conversion. A WWF study estimated there were 80 mammal …
The EU's nature directives provide effective protection for endangered species and habitats, writes Leonardo Mazza. So why the Commission's decision to 'review' and 'modernise' the laws? With its commitment to business-friendly deregulation and uninterest in the environment, the aim is surely to gut them - something only EU-wide citizens' mobilisation can prevent.
… - the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), WWF, BirdLife Europe and Friends of the Earth …
The world’s tropical forests are falling as fast as ever – at a pace of about 13 million hectares each year, or 50 football fields a minute. But the rainforest killers are changing, with big implications for us all.
… Friends of the Earth, Rainforest Alliance and WWF – actively battling forest-destroying …