16 October 2007
Wildlife friendly t-shirts from M&S and WWF
M&S has teamed up with WWF to create a range of truly wild t-shirts for toddlers and young girls that celebrate and help raise funds to conserve the spectacular wildlife on our planet, with M&S donating 10% from the sale of each t-shirt to support WWF's conservation projects around the world. |
9 August 2007
Future looks bleak for Borneo's pygmy elephants
A new WWF study tracking pygmy elephants by satellite shows that the remaining herds of these endangered elephants, which live only on the island of Borneo, are under threat from forest fragmentation and loss of habitat. |
12 July 2007
WWF applauds new Body Shop sustainable palm oil pledge
The Body Shop International has become the first cosmetics and toiletries retailer to introduce sustainable palm oil into the global beauty industry. |
3 July 2007
BBC programme focuses on WWF elephant project
WWF's partner in Namibia, the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), is the focus of an episode of BBC1's Saving
Planet Earth series... |
29 June 2007
Relocating Rhinos continued
WWF-UK:. Section navigation. Relocating Rhinos continued Friday 29 June 2007 Now they are to play their part for the continuation of a species which has just been removed from the Critically Endangered list. As two females ready for breeding, they will become founder members of a new colony population i... |
29 June 2007
Relocating rhinos - a WWF conservation success
Conserving rhinos and their habitat has been a focus of WWF's work since our launch, which was given a vital boost by a special issue of the Daily Mirror. Now, as BBC1's Saving Planet Earth series focuses on Asia's rhinos (7pm, Friday 29 June), the Daily Mirror's Ros Wynne-Jones witnesses the success ... |
22 June 2007
New BBC series highlights species and habitat conservation
A new BBC television series, Saving Planet Earth, aims to highlight the challenges of species and habitat conservation across the world, as well as featuring some successful projects, including one run by WWF's partner in Namibia. |
16 May 2007
The top 10 most traded species
WWF has released its latest list of the 10 species under most threat from being bought, sold, smuggled, killed or captured for the global market place. |
9 May 2007
Green coalition calls for urgent community action on biofuels
A coalition of some of Britain's biggest green groups has launched an advertising campaign attacking environmentally destructive bio-fuels. |
5 April 2007
Croeso i rifyn arbennig o Seiren sy'n seiliedig ar yr etholiad!
Fel rydych siwr o fod wedi sylwi mae yna etholiad rownd y gornel ar Fai 3ydd ac mae WWF Cymru wedi bod yn brysur yn holi arweinwyr y partļon a gweinidogion y Cynulliad ar eu polisļau amgylcheddol. Gofynnom cwestiynau allweddol iddynt ynglyn ā'i ymrwymiad i fynd i'r afael ā newid yn yr hinsawdd, ā amddiffyn ein moroedd ... |
3 April 2007
Heart of Borneo - protecting critical orang-utan habitat
The Heart of Borneo is one of the world's most important centres for biodiversity - it is one of only two places on Earth where orang-utans, rhinos and elephants coexist. Surveys have discovered more than 400 new species here since 1995, including the recent revelation that the clouded leopard found on Borneo and Sumat... |
26 January 2007
Rhaglen Extinct
Dewisodd miliynau o wylwyr droi i ITV1 ym mis Rhagfyr i weld teigr Bengal yn ennill pleidlais 'Extinct!'... |
26 January 2007
Extinct Programme
Millions of viewers tuned into ITV1 in December to see the Bengal tiger voted the 'winner' of Extinct! |
12 January 2007
Leaders endorse Heart of Borneo Declaration
A historic agreement to conserve 220,000 square kilometres of equatorial rainforests known as the 'Heart of Borneo' was officially endorsed today by the Heads of the three Bornean governments - Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia. |
15 September 2006
Pauline McNeill MSP takes steps to reduce her footprint
Pauline McNeill MSP hosted a WWF Scotland exhibition in Parliament this week to inform Scotland's decision makers about Ecological Footprinting and encourage them to enable the nation to move towards One Planet Living. |
5 May 2006
New TV series, Planet Action, focuses on WWF projects
Around the globe, animals and their habitats are being threatened. Most often, the danger comes as a result of human behaviour. |
28 March 2006
Conservation vision gives hope to treasure island
The ''Heart of Borneo'' conservation initiative has been officially launched with the three Bornean governments - Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia - declaring their commitment to support it. |
17 March 2006
Rhinos clinging to survival in the heart of Borneo
Poaching has significantly reduced Borneo's population of Sumatran rhinos in recent years, but a small group continues to survive in the ''Heart of Borneo''. |
2 February 2006
Celebrities put a piece of their heart on ebay!
Celebrities from the world of sport, entertainment, business, fashion, music and art have kindly donated items 'close to their hearts' for the WWF campaign to save the 'Heart of Borneo'. |
9 January 2006
Chimp week on the BBC
This week on the BBC is chimp week. Details of programmes are listed below. |
16 December 2005
A WWF Christmas
It's that time of year again - falling snow, twinkling lights and a large, jolly, bearded man squeezing down your chimney in the dead of night. |
13 October 2005
Walk for Wildlife 2005 Hazlehead Park, Aberdeen
Giant strides towards progress were made by all those who helped to make this year's WWF Walk for Wildlife another great success. |
6 September 2005
Orang-utan poachers not being prosecuted
The thriving trade in baby orang-utans as pets in Indonesian Borneo is sending the species in a downward spiral toward extinction but not a single poacher has been prosecuted. |
12 August 2005
Disaster for Borneo's forests?
Plans to create the world's largest palm oil plantation in Kalimantan along Indonesia's mountainous border with Malaysia could have a devastating impact on the forests, wildlife and indigenous people of Borneo. |
17 June 2005
1000s of orang-utans killed for their babies
Around 1,000 orang-utans are killed every year in Indonesia so that their babies can be traded illegally. |
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