Forests, Food And Land Can Deliver 30% of Solutions Needed To Tackle Climate Crisis by 2030
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Forests, Food And Land Can Deliver 30% of Solutions Needed To Tackle Climate Crisis by 2030 WASHINGTON–As part of the Global Climate Action Summit, WWF, together with a broad coalition of partners, today issued the 30X30 Forests, Food and Land Challenge: calling on businesses, states, […]
Read More →Hope for Critically Endangered Mekong River Dolphins as Population Increases for First Time
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Hope for Critically Endangered Mekong River Dolphins as Population Increases for First Time Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 23, 2018 — After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, results from a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Government of Cambodia census released today show that the population of […]
Read More →WWF Statement on the Agriculture Committee’s Passage of the Farm Bill
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement on the Agriculture Committee’s Passage of the Farm Bill In response to the House Committee on Agriculture’s passage of H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, World Wildlife Fund released the following statement from Dr. Melinda Cep, senior director of policy […]
Read More →WWF Statement on Announcement of the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement on Announcement of the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 In response to the announcement of the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following statement from Melinda Cep, senior director for policy, food and markets: “With specifics now […]
Read More →Google and World Wildlife Fund Use Technology to Teach Students About the Environment
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Google and World Wildlife Fund Use Technology to Teach Students About the Environment San Francisco, Calif (April 9, 2018) – Google and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are working together to provide students around the world the resources to learn more about the environment and coding […]
Read More →WWF Statement on Taiwan’s Announcement to Ban Ivory Trade
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement on Taiwan’s Announcement to Ban Ivory Trade In response to Taiwan’s commitment to ban domestic ivory trade by January 1, 2020, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following statement from Jan Vertefeuille, senior director for advocacy and wildlife conservation: “We hope this is […]
Read More →Unprecedented Collaring Effort Aims to Protect Tanzania’s Threatened Elephants
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Unprecedented Collaring Effort Aims to Protect Tanzania’s Threatened Elephants DAR ES SALAAM – In Tanzania, the government, with support from World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has launched the country’s largest ever elephant collaring effort to protect its dwindling elephant population. With almost 90 percent of the […]
Read More →WWF Statement on the Latest Pebble Mine Decision
Source: World Wildlife Fund – Press Release/Statement: Headline: WWF Statement on the Latest Pebble Mine Decision In response to the federal government’s decision to begin a new environmental impact statement (EIS) for the potentially dangerous Pebble Mine, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released the following statement from David Aplin, interim managing director of US Arctic programs: […]
Read More →WWF: Reopening Beaufort Sea to Offshore Drilling a Huge Risk
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF: Reopening Beaufort Sea to Offshore Drilling a Huge Risk In response to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s call for information and nominations covering a proposed lease sale in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released the following statement from Margaret Williams, managing […]
Read More →Declaración de WWF sobre el segundo nivel máximo de hielo marino más bajo del que se tenga registro
Source: World Wildlife Fund – Press Release/Statement: Headline: Declaración de WWF sobre el segundo nivel máximo de hielo marino más bajo del que se tenga registro En respuesta al anuncio de hoy del Centro Nacional de Datos de Nieve y Hielo sobre el segundo nivel máximo de hielo marino más bajo del que se tenga […]
Read More →Earth Hour 2018 – A New Generation of Leaders Turn Out to Turn Up Climate Action
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Earth Hour 2018 – A New Generation of Leaders Turn Out to Turn Up Climate Action This Saturday, March 24th at 8:30pm local time, World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour will sweep the globe. Millions of people, cities and businesses across the world will switch off their lights for […]
Read More →WWF Statement on Death of Sudan, the Last Remaining Male Northern White Rhino
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement on Death of Sudan, the Last Remaining Male Northern White Rhino The last remaining male Northern white rhino, Sudan, passed away in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on March 19, 2017. In response to this news, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following statements: […]
Read More →Half of plant and animal species at risk from climate change in world’s most important natural places
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Half of plant and animal species at risk from climate change in world’s most important natural places Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the […]
Read More →Leading Tech Companies Unite to Stop Online Wildlife Traffickers
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Leading Tech Companies Unite to Stop Online Wildlife Traffickers San Francisco, California – The world’s leading e-commerce, technology and social media companies are joining forces with Google and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to render online platforms and apps inoperable for wildlife traffickers to trade in […]
Read More →Artist Zio Ziegler and WWF Debut Tiger T-shirt on World Wildlife Day
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: Artist Zio Ziegler and WWF Debut Tiger T-shirt on World Wildlife Day March 2, 2018, Washington, DC – World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is proud to collaborate with artist Zio Ziegler on an exclusive new tiger-inspired t-shirt design aimed at raising awareness and support of WWF’s […]
Read More →New Study Shows Over a Third of Protected Areas Surveyed are Severely at Risk of Losing Tigers
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: New Study Shows Over a Third of Protected Areas Surveyed are Severely at Risk of Losing Tigers 28 February 2018 – A new survey of over a hundred tiger conservation areas, where an estimated 70 percent of the world’s wild tigers live, found that only […]
Read More →“Whale Cam” Attached to Minke in a World-first
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: “Whale Cam” Attached to Minke in a World-first For the first time ever, scientists in Antarctica have attached a camera to a minke – one of the most poorly understood of all the whale species. And in an incredible bonus for researchers, the camera (which […]
Read More →WWF Statement On Bridgestone’s Global Sustainable Procurement Policy
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement On Bridgestone’s Global Sustainable Procurement Policy In response to Bridgestone’s announcement of its new Global Sustainable Procurement Policy, with commitments to a sustainable supply chain for natural rubber, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following statement from Kerry Cesareo, vice president, forests. “Unsustainable […]
Read More →WWF Statement on the FY19 Presidential Budget Proposal
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement on the FY19 Presidential Budget Proposal In response to significant foreign assistance funding reductions proposed in the President’s FY2019 budget request, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released the following statement from Todd Shelton, vice president of U.S. government relations: “Congress has long provided strong […]
Read More →WWF Statement on Hong Kong’s Move to Ban Ivory Trade
MIL OSI – Source: World Wildlife Fund – Release/Statement Headline: WWF Statement on Hong Kong’s Move to Ban Ivory Trade In response to Hong Kong’s decision to completely ban domestic ivory trade by 2021, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued the following from Jan Vertefeuille, senior director for advocacy: “It’s hard to overstate the importance […]
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