May 16, 2012
WWF and its partners are celebrating the first-ever Coral Triangle Day on June 9 at several locations around the Coral Triangle region to highlight the importance of marine...
May 13, 2012
- By Aimee Leslie, WWF's Marine Turtle and Cetacean Manager
Indonesia is 90% Muslim, but Bali is the exception, which is 90% Hindu. The Hindu community of Bali has traditionally used marine turtles for religious ceremonies for decades. Consumption of these turtles summed between 10,000 and 20,000 a year.
It is no secret that changing a tradition, specially a religious one is no easy task; but WWF-Indonesia was determined to do so. The local...
April 25, 2012
- Banda Aceh – WWF is calling on Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and police to investigate and take strict legal action against the perpetrator of the recent clearing of land known to house around 200 critically endangered orangutan in Aceh’s Tripa peat swamp.
Initial findings from the task force investigting the violations indicate several laws have been broken by the land owner, including the use of fires to clear land, clearing peat land deeper than 3 meters...
April 22, 2012
- A month ahead of a senior government officials’ meeting, WWF is calling on tiger range countries to take steps to stop poachers stealing the gains made by the governments towards their goal to double the number of tigers in the wild.
“There is little hope of doubling the number of wild tigers if every conservation gain made by each of the countries is undermined by poachers every day,” said Mike Baltzer, Leader of WWF’s Tigers Alive Initiative. “Serious actions,...
April 20, 2012
- Jakarta – The only remaining population of Javan rhinos will be better safeguarded following the quadrupling of video camera traps to monitor the critically endangered animals in Ujung Kulon National Park, Indonesia.
WWF and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) recently donated 120 cameras to the park, bringing the total number of camera traps to 160.
The need to have additional video cameras for rhino observation was first recognized during...
April 18, 2012
- From TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring arm of WWF
Ever since their stunning discovery of a tiger cub hidden in a smuggler’s bag in 2010, wildlife authorities at Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport have been on the lookout for others attempting such crazy schemes.
Now,...
March 31, 2012
- SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: As the largest ever Earth Hour wraps up across Asia, Nelson Mandela has taken to Twitter to express his support for the cause to unite the world to protect the planet.
"Let us stand together to make of our world a sustainable source for our future as humanity on this planet" #NelsonMandela #EarthHour”, the anti-apartheid hero and former President of South Africa tweeted.
At the same time, Earth Hour’s I Will If You Will campaign...
March 26, 2012
- European, Japanese taxpayers unwittingly underwrite continued
forest and tiger habitat destruction.
Pekanbaru, Sumatra; Gland, Switzerland: Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has been accused of a “double default” on international creditors, after an investigation revealed that the company has decimated tropical forests it promised to conserve under “legally binding” debt restructuring agreements.
“APP Default on Environmental Covenant,” a new...
March 12, 2012
- Jakarta, Indonesia - In the space of a week the National Geographic Society (NGS) has publicly broken ties with Asian Pulp and Paper (APP) and the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) has called for an investigation after a Greenpeace report revealed the company was illegally logging protected tree species.
WWF recently revealed that APP claims that its operations were independently certified as sustainable were not backed up by any of the...