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WWF Sweden is urging its government  to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss.

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. 

Posted on 06 August 2010 | 1 comments | Read more

There are fewer than 100 western gray whales (<i>Eschrictius robustus</I>) remaining.

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.

Posted on 05 August 2010 | 2 comments | Read more

The Tara River, Montenegro

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.

Posted on 04 August 2010 | 7 comments | Read more

Wild salmon underwater at Laerdal salmon centre, Norway.

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.  

Posted on 04 August 2010 | 1 comments | Read more

The critically endangered silky sifaka or silky simpona (Propithecus candidus), a lemur species which is endemic to Marojejy National Park and Anjanaharibe Sud Special Reserve.

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.

Posted on 04 August 2010 | 1 comments | Read more

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