28 August 2008
New hope for Sumatra's elephants and tigers
The government of Indonesia today declared its commitment to enlarging a critical area of forest home to endangered Sumatran elephants and tigers. This will mean expanding Tesso Nilo National Park on Sumatra island from 38,000 to 86,000 hectares. |
31 July 2008
Flawed U.S. regulations make tigers in captivity vulnerable
Huge gaps in U.S. regulations for tigers held in captivity could make the big cats a target for illegal trade, wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC and WWF found in the first-ever comprehensive report on captive tiger regulations across the United States. |
13 June 2008
Ivory dealer convicted for huge illegal ivory hoard
Leading UK wildlife and conservation groups today praised the police for the prosecution of a man convicted of trading in large amounts of illegal ivory - but warn that the case highlights British demand for ivory items. |
29 May 2008
World's rarest rhinos make dramatic video appearance
WWF-designed video camera traps, installed to capture wildlife footage in the jungles of South-east Asia, have twice recorded remarkable images of the world's rarest rhino accompanied by a calf. |
27 February 2008
Sumatra's forests at risk
Turning the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran province into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and is rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. |
20 February 2008
Wildlife trading ring 'dismantled' on Sino-Russian border
WWF and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, have been instrumental in helping customs officials in the Russian far east to uncover a smuggling ring trading the skins of endangered tigers and bear parts to China. |
18 February 2008
Police save wildlife crime unit
The Metropolitan Police has responded to public pressure and reversed a decision to make cuts to London's Wildlife Crime Unit. |
13 February 2008
India's tigers at risk: Estimation survey
The Indian government released the country-wide India Tiger Estimation survey yesterday, showing how poaching is threatening the survival of this national symbol. |
13 February 2008
Sumatran tigers being sold into extinction
Wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC have released a survey today warning that laws protecting the critically endangered Sumatran tiger have failed to prevent tiger body parts being offered on open sale in Indonesia. |
22 November 2007
China campaign fights illegal wildlife trade
WWF, TRAFFIC and Ogilvy advertising agency have launched a graphic media campaign in Beijing in China to end the illegal wildlife trade. |
11 October 2007
WWF rewards enforcers tackling wildlife crime
Lincolnshire Constabulary's Nigel Lound has been named this year's WWF Wildlife Law Enforcer of the Year in recognition of his work to combat wildlife crime. In one of his most recent successes he carried out an investigation into the sale of tigers' heads, elephant tusks and peregrine falcon specimens on eBay. The inv... |
21 September 2007
WWF celebrates lives and conservation work on anniversary of Nepal tragedy
WWF-UK celebrates the lives of our colleagues and friends. |
16 August 2007
Holidaymakers bring back wildlife trade souvenirs
British holidaymakers are bringing back more than a stick of rock and a straw donkey. Coral, elephant ivory carvings, traditional Chinese medicine and snake skin accessories are amongst the top ten illegal wildlife trade items being bought back to the UK as souvenirs. |
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. |
5 July 2007
WWF photographs three-legged Sumatran tiger
A WWF camera trap inside an Indonesian national park has captured photographs of a Sumatran tiger in the wild that appears to have escaped from a snare by cutting off its paw. |
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. |
14 June 2007
Pressure mounts on China to stop tiger farming
China has been urged to phase out its commercial 'tiger farms' by a consensus of the 171 member countries at an international wildlife trade convention. |
8 June 2007
Tiger mosaic unveiled
World leaders are urged to end tiger trade at the unveiling of the world's largest tiger photo mosaic. |
2 June 2007
Convention on international endangered species trade
CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is the international agreement between governments to protect the survival of wild animals and plants which are being traded. |
31 May 2007
EU is top importer of wildlife products
The EU is the biggest global importer of many wildlife products, including tropical timber, caviar and live birds, according to a new report by WWF and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. |
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. |
15 May 2007
CITES listings
WWF is calling on the governments represented at CITES to protect the 10 species in the following ways:... |
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