562 days ago From Gladstone Observer   View Archived Article

GLADSTONE, AUSTRALIA - WORLD Wildlife Fund has criticised the approval process for major projects in Queensland. WWF policy manager freshwater Sean Hoobin said the organisation was worried that projects such as the LNG projects on Curtis Island were assessed on an individu ...

564 days ago From Times of India   View Archived Article

NAGPUR, INDIA - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a leading wildlife conservation NGO, is ready to provide all technical and financial help to the forest department to procure a radio collar provided the department assures its monitoring. Chittaranjan Dave, coordinator ...

564 days ago From The Express Tribune   View Archived Article

KARACHI, PAKISTAN - The 36 students who were accompanied by a teacher set off early in the morning and spent all day repopulating the mangrove forest at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Wetlands Centre at Sandspit. Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and ...

570 days ago From CTV.ca   View Archived Article

TORONTO, CANADA - Coca-Cola and the World Wildlife Fund have announced a project called Arctic Home, to which the global corporate giant has committed $2 million over five years, with another million promised to match donations from the public. ...

571 days ago From Belfast Telegraph   View Archived Article

BELFAST, U K - But efforts to conserve the remaining Javan rhinos in Cat Tien National Park have failed, experts said. Genetic analysis of 22 dung samples collected between 2009 and 2010 by a survey team from Cat Tien National Park and wildlife charity WWF, ...

576 days ago From The Foreigner   View Archived Article

RAEGE, NORWAY - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) estimates the Fund has put 116 billion kroner into oil sands, 79 billion of it invested in companies involved in extraction. =93This is money that could have helped solve the world's renewable energy challenges. ...

579 days ago From Sydney Morning Herald   View Archived Article

PYRMONT, AUSTRALIA - The couple have sunk a fortune into a breeding program for cubs in South Africa, and are now ready to start sending them to China for release. The Save China's Tigers program has just been recognised as a charity in Australia. ...

584 days ago From Reuters   View Archived Article

LONDON, U K - The World Wildlife Fund estimates that only 15000 are left in the wild as deforestation deprives them of prey and makes them more vulnerable to hunters. About 18000 jaguars were killed globally every year for their fur in the 1960s and 1970s and ...

596 days ago From Luton Today   View Archived Article

LUTON, U K - Published Thu 29 Sep 2011 09:23 Leading environmental charity Global Action Plan has been selected to run a National Citizen Service (NCS) pilot scheme in 2012. Up to 30000 16-year-olds will have the chance to benefit from the scheme, a three-fold .. ...

597 days ago From Digital Journal   View Archived Article

LONDON, U K - The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are joining with the Indonesian and US Governments today to sign a debt-for-nature swap agreement that will result in a new $28.5 million investment to help protect tropical forests in three ...

598 days ago From Triple Pundit   View Archived Article

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA - By Andrew Burger | September 27th, 2011 0 Comments The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has joined the Global Canopy Programme and the Climate Bonds Initiative to call on governments around the world to foster growth and development of a global market for . ...

599 days ago From ABC Online   View Archived Article

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - By Babs McHugh The World Wildlife Fund says the Wheatstone gas project off the north-west coast of Western Australia will add to the pressure on marine wildlife. Chevron will proceed with the $29 billion LNG project at Onslow after receiving Federal ...

601 days ago From PR Web    View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Rhino poaching has reached alarming proportions in southern Africa, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is calling for an end to the crisis on World Rhino Day, September 22nd. Officials in South Africa, home to the majority of the world's rhinos, ...

606 days ago From News1130   View Archived Article

VANCOUVER, CANADA - The retired NHL defenceman and Olympic gold-medal winner is the freshwater ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund, and hit Locarno Beach today to take part in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. "I love this province and just doing little thin ...

617 days ago From CBC.ca   View Archived Article

TORONTO, CANADA - Beginning of Story Content Any response to a possible offshore oil spill in the Canadian Arctic would be severely hampered, even more so than previously thought, the World Wildlife Fund says. That's because Arctic ice, lack of daylight, ...

619 days ago From RIA Novosti   View Archived Article

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - A new project for restoring leopard populations in Russia was sent for approval to the Natural Resources and Ecology Ministry, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said. The first leopard conservation strategy to prevent the full extinction of leopards was ...

619 days ago From ABC Online   View Archived Article

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The World Wildlife Fund says Australia's list of threatened species is growing by the year. Today is National Threatened Species Day, commemorating the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger at Hobart Zoo in 1936. Michael Roache, the threatened specie ...

623 days ago From Gladstone Observer   View Archived Article

GLADSTONE, AUSTRALIA - The LNP's announcement to better protect Queensland's dugongs and turtles from poachers is welcome but lacks substance without a funding commitment that would enable indigenous communities to better manage their own sea country, the World Wil ...

624 days ago From Viet Nam News   View Archived Article

HA NOI, VIETNAM - HA NOI =97 The German Government and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) office in Germany have committed 8.2 million euro (US$11.7 million) to enhance the protection of forests near the Viet Nam-Lao border, the German Embassy announced yesterday. ...

629 days ago From Press TV   View Archived Article

TEHRAN, IRAN - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) researchers have discovered a new species of monkey during their expeditions in an unexplored part of the Amazon in mid-western Brazil. The newly found monkey, which is a type of Callicebus, or titi, was discovered between t ...