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Coal power opposition goes global
Almost 10,000 people from 100 countries have objected to plans for a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston in Ayrshire, Scotland, it was revealed today (Friday 13 August) by WWF.
Malaga Bay declared national park after tough environmental battle
After months of intense debate and only days before a new government took office, Colombia announced that a massive swath of its Pacific coast, also an important spawning ground for humpback whales, has become the country’s newest national park.
Filipino government cracks down on sea turtle poachers
Two years after their arrests, 13 Vietnamese poachers caught with the corpses of 101 endangered hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) near El Nido, northern Palawan, in the Philippines, have been sentenced to jail time and fines.
Entertainment industry leaders premiere Earth Hour global music video on Facebook
Earth Hour – the massive grassroots campaign to galvanize action on global warming – has exclusively premiered its Earth Hour 2011 video on Facebook.
Governments must ramp up climate change talks ahead of Cancun meet - WWF
WWF says governments who participated in the third Bonn climate change talks this week now must ramp up their negotiations, or they will waste a crucial opportunity to move forward in Cancun later this year.
Russia oil, gas company ignores science to begin seismic tests in crucial whale feeding area
Russian oil and gas company Rosneft plans to begin seismic surveys next week that could hurt the critically endangered western grey whale – despite calls from 12 governments and the public to suspend the tests for a year.
WWF, Green Home cautiously welcome Montenegro dams rethink
WWF and Green Home, its partner NGO in Montenegro, today welcomed the Montenegrin government’s decision to call off the original plans for four dams on the Morača River, which would have affected several protected areas.
WWF welcomes standards to make salmon industry more sustainable
Draft standards to improve the environmental and social sustainability of the salmon aquaculture industry were released yesterday for public comment.
UNESCO recognizes threats to Madagascar rainforest
The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has placed the Atsinanana rainforest in Madagascar on its list of World Heritage in Danger sites because of an ongoing government-influenced illegal logging crisis and continuing lemur bush meat consumption in some of the national parks that are part of the forest.
Scientists show waves of deforestation across East Africa
A new study co-authored by a WWF scientist documents waves of forest degradation advancing like ripples in a pond 75 miles across East Africa in just 14 years.
