An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...

GLAND, Switzerland (15 July 2025): The Office of the Ombudsperson, created as part of WWF’s broader commitment to accountability, has reached a key milestone and is now open to receiving complaints ...

BEIJING (February 28, 2015) -- The worldwide population of wild giant pandas increased by 268 over the last decade according to a new survey conducted by the government of China. The increase in ...

The temptation to skip to steps lower in the hierarchy that are easier or cheaper will at best provide a temporary bandaid to these complex global challenges and at worst, cannibalize efforts for ...

WHERE DID THE IDEA OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMISSION COME FROM AND WHY? Whaling as an industry began around the 11th Century when the Basques started hunting and trading the products from the ...

Tropical regions face wildlife populations plummeting at a staggering rate Freshwater species populations have suffered an 83% fall The report’s Living Planet Index shows that there is no time to lose ...

A hot June day in the Pantanal, Brazil. It's the dry season. Although this is the world’s largest tropical wetland, the grass is now yellow, and there’s hardly any water to be seen. The few ponds that ...

Why companies striving for a credible climate change strategy need to follow a robust mitigation hierarchy – focused on real and Paris-aligned reductions first – and invest for climate and nature ...

Wetlands, the most economically valuable and among the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, are disappearing three times faster than forests with severe consequences for our future unless urgent ...

Jakarta: Eleven places in the world – 10 of which are in the tropics – will account for over 80 per cent of forest loss globally by 2030, according to research released today by WWF. Up to 170 million ...

A publication to aid informed decision making in dam construction plans and projects The world faces a huge challenge to supply the water and energy needs of a rapidly growing population, as well as ...