I think running a marathon is something on many peoples bucket list. Just something you should do, an achievement. The thing with a marathon is once you’ve got a place, you feel you have to tell everyone and anyone that you meet within the first ten minutes of your conversation. Society starts to treat you
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Dr Kate Evans is the director and founder of Elephants for Africa. She started her research over a decade ago, looking at adolescent male elephants in the Okavango Delta and how they socialise – with an emphasis on how captive-bred animals would react in a wild environment. Here she talks about how complex these beautiful
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Illegal Wildlife trade WWF-UK’s species conservation work is almost exclusively focused on protecting species abroad. This means I work from our base at the Living Planet Centre in Woking focused mostly on activities happening thousands of miles away. However, this week the global attention on one of our priority issues – the illegal wildlife trade – was focused
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Right now, in Europe and elsewhere around the world, governments and politicians are poised to make decisions that could have a profound impact on whether or not we successfully protect our children and grandchildren from the dangerous and uncontrollable impacts of climate change. If we are to be successful then one thing we need to
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Dr Kate Evans is the director and founder of Elephants for Africa. She started her research over a decade ago, looking at adolescent male elephants in the Okavango Delta and how they socialise – with an emphasis on how captive-bred animals would react in a wild environment. Here she talks about how complex these beautiful
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It’s that time of year again when I simply just want to stay in the warm! When I have to venture out though, I make sure I’m adequately wrapped up against the elements – with my big coat buttoned up, my cozy gloves on my hands, and my home knitted scarf wrapped around my neck. Unfortunately
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It’s time we faced up to the reality of Wales’ progress on sustainable development. On the afternoon that I met environment minister John Griffiths at the launch of the Sustainable Development Bill white paper in Blaenavon, he left for Doha to attend the international climate change negotiations. The minister told the Guardian that this bill
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Events I think running a marathon is something on many peoples bucket list. Just something you should do, an achievement. The thing with a marathon is once you’ve got a place, you feel you have to tell everyone and anyone that you meet within the first ten minutes of your conversation. Society starts to treat you [...]
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EU Elections If you’re passionate about the same things as we at WWF care about, then the upcoming EU elections are not to be missed. They offer us all an opportunity to have a say on a whole range of environmental issues – the state of our seas and rivers, the energy we use, the way our [...]
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The Global Record of fishing vessels (GR) is intended as a record and source of information on the world fleet of fishing and fishing related vessels. Currently no such comprehensive record and information source on vessels and their permitted activities exists, which means that regulatory organisations authorise individual measures on vessels without access to information [...]
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climate change At a time when the world’s most eminent climate scientists have produced their report on climate change impacts, adaptation and resilience, we’re reminded why climate change represents such a serious threat to species, habitats and communities which WWF has spent 50 years working to protect. Recognising those threats, we have several programmes focusing on finding [...]
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Five for Friday It’s been a busy few months on the blog site, so much so I didn’t even get around to doing my last Five for Friday. There were so many other interesting and important pieces that kept it off the schedule! Because of this, I’ve picked five blogs from March and April to highlight to you. [...]
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Here in the UK We were delighted to have been ‘highly commended’ at the UK National Blog Awards that took place in London last week. The WWF-UK blog was chosen as one of the top three blogs in the travel category. Our people are one of our biggest assets here, and the blog site is the place where we [...]
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World Tuna Day Many of us will be familiar with the different species of tuna that are traded internationally in cans, fresh, frozen steaks and sushi. However, the importance of tuna is far greater than as a filling in a sandwich with mayo. Fishing for tuna is carried out in the tropical and sub-tropical waters of the world [...]
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There’s no doubt that tourism is a key sector for the Cambodian economy. Bordering Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, Cambodia has a rich history and culture and boasts average temperatures of 27-28 degrees centigrade. It also houses one of the world’s great rivers, the 4,800km Mekong, which winds its way from the Tibetan plateau to the [...]
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climate change Most people would agree that we can never put an accurate monetary value on our health or the environment in which we live. But most would also agree that our inability to accurately value these things does not mean that they should be left out altogether of economic modelling or valued at zero. So how [...]
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EU Elections The European elections are upon us. With just 22 days to go until the polling stations open, our MEPs and prospective MEPs are doing everything they can to convince us that they will champion our interests all the way to Brussels. But if this is the first you’ve heard of the EU elections then don’t [...]
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