The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows an average 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical sub regions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part …
NEW DELHI: In order to protect and increase wild tiger population, nearly one million acres of protected habitat in India and Bhutan will be covered under a new private conservation efforts. The 'Project C.A.T - Conserving acres for Tigers' by Discovery Communications and NGO World Wildlife Fund (WWF) aims to …
The United Nations on Wednesday banned global trade in highly endangered pangolins, a scaly animal with the dubious distinction of being the world's most poached mammal. Member states of the U.N.'s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES, voted to place the eight species of pangolin on …
LONG AN – The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Intel Products launched a joint effort to restore habitats in the Láng Sen Wetland Reserve last week, with the goal of planting more than 12,000 native trees this year. The project aims to restore the degraded forests, providing habitats …
Donana National Park, part of southern Spanish wetland used by 6 million migratory birds, could dry out completely unless the Spanish government tackles the threat of dredging, mining and intensive farming, a report said on Thursday. The World Wildlife Fund said Spain was failing to safeguard the 54,000 hectare (209 …
"Their dependence on sea ice means that climate warming poses the single most important threat to (polar bears') persistence," wrote the team. The global population of polar bears -- scientific name Ursus maritimus -- is estimated at about 25,000, said the study. The bears, which have become emblematic of the …
Dozens of African rangers are killed each year by increasingly well-armed and -organized poachers in a bloody conflict over the continent’s wildlife. Due to skyrocketing consumer demand, particularly from Asia, today’s wildlife traffickers have the resources to outfit their henchmen with weaponry and equipment that often outmatches that of the …
While international efforts are under way to help keep dwindling populations of monarch butterflies from disappearing, scientists are raising concerns about how severe weather and a loss of forest habitat at their wintering grounds in Mexico are affecting them. Every year, monarchs embark on an epic multigenerational migration that takes …
Heavy storms earlier this year hammered the forests that North America's monarch butterflies migrate to in central Mexico, a study showed on Tuesday, fueling fears the habitat could eventually become untenable. Conservationists said storms and strong winds in March uprooted more than 20,000 trees in Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, …
India ranked third in ecological footprint in the world, after China and USA On Monday, August 8, the world exhausted nature’s budget of natural resources for the entire year as a result of increased consumption levels, according to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) release. Observed as Earth Overshoot Day, the …
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of land have been cleared in Queensland, a new study has found, after a surge led by cattle graziers under relaxed laws that the state government is seeking to overturn. A state science department study on land cover released on Sunday found 296,000 hectares of …
Queensland farmers campaigning against stronger tree-clearing regulations – and who have said farmers are “the country’s greatest environmentalists” – have bulldozed thousands of hectares of native vegetation. Under the previous LNP government, regulations were relaxed to allow farmers to clear large areas. The environmental group WWF said the clearing of …
With over 10,000 tigers including other big cats in captivity globally, rampant tiger poaching in India, shrinking green-corridors in Asia and three sub-species extinct, experts see "no happy times" for the feline on International Tiger Day on Friday. "There were some 100,000 tigers a century back, now there are around …
The Queensland government is allowing commercial fisheries to catch endangered sharks on the Great Barrier Reef, with a quota based on data that was useless for managing the shark numbers, according to an independent peer reviewer. Shark experts and WWF are calling for an observer program, which was axed by …
An inter-department coordination meeting was organised by NGOs World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Osai for the forest and line departments and NGOs to avert human-animal conflicts that are on the rise in Coimbatore district. It was held on the Tamil Nadu Forest Academy premises, on Monday. Five key …
A dead dugong, with injuries researchers say are consistent with entanglement in a fishing net or line, has been found near Townsville, raising concerns about lack of oversight over fishing practices in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Found on Wednesday last week near Saunders beach, just north of Townsville, …
WWF Singapore on Monday launched a new alliance on sustainable palm oil in a bid to boost demand for the commodity, and ultimately, help tackle the haze pollution plaguing the region for many decades. Speaking at the launch of the alliance at Marina Bay Sands on Monday, WWF Singapore chief …
Last Thursday, on June 23, the provincial governor of South Kivu formally approved the boundaries of the Itombwe Reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the last strongholds of the Grauer’s gorilla. Conservationists have cheered this move. The Itombwe massif is home to more than 750 species of …
Once colourful corals surrounding a Great Barrier Reef island have turned a ghastly shade of brown, with new images showing how algae has impacted the natural wonder. WWF Australia says the photos were taken last month at Lizard Island, the "ground zero" of a mass bleaching event that's killed an …
Elephants could disappear from one of Africa’s most important wildlife reserves within six years unless industrial scale poaching is stopped and mining is brought under control, the WWF has said. Selous national park, a world heritage site in southern Tanzania, has lost an average of almost 2,500 elephants a year …
Two of the biggest conservation charities in Britain, the RSPB and WWF, have joined forces with David Cameron to urge their 1.7 million supporters to protect the UK’s environment by voting to stay in the EU. In a joint article published on Thursday, the two charities say that “years of …
