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It's Also National Pizza Party Day Greens celebrate two holidays today		16 May 2008	News
Posted at 2:03 PM on 16 May 2008 If you saw a tiger riding a two-wheeler to the office this morning, that's because it's Endangered Species Bike to Work Day. Wait, wait, we're getting a memo -- oh, actually, it's both Endangered Species Day and Bike to Work Day. (Then what the hell was that tiger doing?) In honor of Bike to Work Day, bicyclists in many cities picked up free swag along their commute routes this morning. In ho ...
Topics: bikes, endangered species, holiday, news, placemaking, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Aye Yi Yi of the Tiger World's tiger population unwell, WWF says		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 7:39 AM on 13 Mar 2008 Photo: Paul Buxton The world's tiger population is doing poorly and may have been halved in the last 25 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund. The group estimates that the global tiger population has plummeted to about 3,500 today from as many as 7,500 in 1982. Habitat destruction and poaching to feed the thriving market in tiger body parts are thought to be the main drivers of the population ...
Topics: habitat loss, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Sands Between Your Woes Canada oil sands not good for the environment, says study		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:34 PM on 11 Jan 2008 To absolutely no one's surprise, Canada's oil-sands operations have been given poor environmental marks in a study by green groups Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund. Ten oil-sands ventures in the province of Alberta, including seven that have not yet started producing, were rated on their pollution of (or potential to pollute) the land, air, and water, as well as their ...
Topics: Canada, energy, news, oil, oil sands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

WWF's Conservation Island A virtual world	Sarah van Schagen	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I scream, you scream, we all scream for an orangutan selling ice cream. On WWF's virtual island in online world Second Life. From the press release: On Conservation Island, if residents "buy" an ice-cream from Mr Tangee, the orangutan who runs the ice-cream van, they will have the chance to learn that plantations to provide the soy and palm oil found in an array of everyday products, from ice-cream to cosmetics and chocolate bars, already cover ...
Topics: education, green living, tech, websites, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Ducked Ape East African gorillas make a comeback		24 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Ducked Ape East African gorillas make a comeback Good news, ape fans: thanks to conservation efforts, East Africa's mountain gorillas are eking their way toward not-endangeredness, at least in one national park. While still threatened by war, poaching, and habitat loss, an encouraging 340 mountain gorillas have found Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park at least penetrable enough to live ...
Topics: endangered species, news, Uganda, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Now Who's a Moonbeam? On heels of climate report, governments and businesses get real		05 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Now Who's a Moonbeam? On heels of climate report, governments and businesses get real Heeding a call from French President Jacques Chirac, 46 nations are backing a plan to create a powerful new U.N. Environment Organization that could police climate offenders. Egregious emitters Russia, China, India, and the U.S. didn't leap up and down volunteering to j ...
Topics: business, California, climate, environmental justice, France, news, politics, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

What top environmental orgs have to say about animal welfare They don't ignore it	Jason D Scorse	05 Dec 2006	Gristmill
In order to further elucidate the role of animal welfare issues in environmentalism, let us examine mission statements from some of the top environmental organizations in the world. Let's start with the first line of the mission statement from the World Wildlife Fund: 'Protecting natural areas and wild populations of plants and animals, including endangered species.' Notice that WWF talks about protecting wild animals independently of whether the ...
Topics: animal welfare, biodiversity, endangered species, environmental movement, NRDC, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Slow Down, You Hoover Too Fast Humans consuming planet's resources at unprecedented rate, warns WWF		24 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Slow Down, You Hoover Too Fast Humans consuming planet's resources at unprecedented rate, warns WWF Humans are consuming the planet's resources 25 percent faster than the earth can renew them, a rate "unprecedented in human history," the World Wildlife Fund said today in its 2006 Living Planet Report. If we keep it up, we'll need two planets' worth of natural resources by mid-century, and "exhaustion ...
Topics: green living, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

From Bad to Thirst Water crisis doesn't care if countries are rich or poor		16 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
From Bad to Thirst Water crisis doesn't care if countries are rich or poor Water crisis: not just for poor countries anymore. Industrialized nations must make drastic policy changes if they wish to maintain water supplies, warns the World Wildlife Fund today. In cities from Seville to Sydney to Sacramento, water has become a hot political issue as supply declines thanks to everything from global ...
Topics: news, water conflicts, water pollution, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns		07 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns The popularity of sushi is sending tuna stocks into a downward spiral, says the World Wildlife Fund, warning that Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna will go extinct if commercial fishers continue hooking them at current rates. "The fishery is running out of control," WWF says in a new report. To keep ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, Mediterranean, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Cork Screwed Drop in cork demand could endanger Mediterranean forests		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Cork Screwed Drop in cork demand could endanger Mediterranean forests What wine goes best with endangered forest? Perhaps a nice pinot gris? Mediterranean cork-oak forests provide 15 billion cork stoppers a year to the wine industry -- a sustainable enterprise, as cork is harvested from live trees rather than dead ones -- but plastic and screw-top closures are growing in popularity. A drop in the cork ...
Topics: Mediterranean, news, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

APRIL, Come Around She Will Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia		24 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
APRIL, Come Around She Will Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia Maybe we can all just get along. A landmark deal between a logging company and an environmental group could double the size of a designated national park in the Tesso Nilo rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the site of years of conflict between conservationists and timber int ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, logging, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Win Some, Luge Some WWF gives Turin Olympics mixed grade for eco-impacts		10 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Win Some, Luge Some WWF gives Turin Olympics mixed grade for eco-impacts For the next few weeks the world will be glued to its TVs for a spectacle of heartbreak and triumph called ... American Idol. But some folks might also watch the Olympic Winter Games. Are they green? WWF has given the Turin Games a mixed score, noting seven eco-positive outcomes including cleanly fueled public transport and recycl ...
Topics: Italy, news, outdoor recreation, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Ban on the Run Chinese consider legalizing domestic trade in tiger parts		27 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Ban on the Run Chinese consider legalizing domestic trade in tiger parts China may soon drop its domestic trade ban on tigers and goods made from tiger parts, which has been in place since 1993. Though the change under consideration would only allow trade based on farm-bred, captive tigers, wildlife campaigners worry that it would push up demand and encourage illegal poaching of wild animals. Nearly every part o ...
Topics: China, news, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Congo Line Congo Basin loggers work toward responsible forest management		28 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
The Congo Line Congo Basin loggers work toward responsible forest management Several logging companies in southeastern Cameroon have joined an initiative conservationists say could help save the rainforests of the Congo Basin, the second largest area of tropical rainforests in the world. The African logging firms are working toward independent certification as responsible foresters, restricting ...
Topics: Cameroon, logging, news, rainforests, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

A Bouquet of Honey-Ros�s Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Ros�s answers readers' questions		28 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Ros�s, WWF Mexico Program. What do you feel are some of the key elements that individuals and organizations must consider when developing strategies that will both preserve and protect the monarch butterfly, the forests and benefit the landowners and citizens of Mexico?�� -- Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada This is a very good question that gets at the heart of the challenge face ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Days of Wine and Honey-Ros�s Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Ros�s answers Grist's questions		24 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Ros�s. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. These butterflies travel all th ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Fuller Up Kathryn Fuller, president of WWF, answers readers' questions		05 Nov 2004	InterActivist
Kathryn Fuller, president of WWF. How do you stay optimistic? How have you managed to avoid the "long slog" attitude?�� -- Jule Asterisk, Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada Take each day as an opportunity. Take time for oneself to recharge. Take time in nature for renewed inspiration. Not that avoiding the "long slog" is easy, but these three things help me. I'm having a hard time imagining how ou ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

The Fuller Monty Kathryn Fuller, president of WWF, answers Grist's questions		01 Nov 2004	InterActivist
Kathryn Fuller. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? World Wildlife Fund. I'm the president and CEO. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Our mission is the conservation of nature. We seek through our network of offices in about 100 countries around the world to save the most biologically rich and distinctive place ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Wet's It to You?		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wet's It to You? Goods and services provided by wetlands across the globe are worth some $70 billion, claims a new study released by the World Wildlife Fund, but those wetlands are in danger of being destroyed. Valuable wetland functions range from recreation to water filtration and flood control; however, insufficient knowledge about wetlands leads policy-makers t ...
Topics: outdoor recreation, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

That Ken-do Spirit London's Mayor Pushes Solar Panels		26 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
That Ken-do Spirit London's Mayor Pushes Solar Panels London's lefty mayor, known (either fondly or derisively, depending on whom you talk to) as "Red Ken" Livingstone, is calling for the "vast majority" of new homes built in London to include photovoltaic solar panels. The requirement is part of a set of strict building and planning rules for l ...
Topics: green living, London, placemaking, renewable energy, United Kingdom, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says Orangutans may have just two decades left if current trends continue, the World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday. One of the four great ape species, orangutans are rapidly disappearing from their only remaining native habitat on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. Populations ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, logging, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: ... China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Bloody Appalling Britons' Bodies Contaminated with a Stew of Chemicals		25 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Bloody Appalling Britons' Bodies Contaminated with a Stew of Chemicals A cocktail of toxic chemicals was found in the bodies of every person tested as part of a British study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. In one of the most comprehensive such surveys to date, 155 people from around the U.K. had their blood analyzed for 77 persistent chemicals known to accumulate in human bodies, including DDT ...
Topics: health, toxics, United Kingdom, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

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