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Geneva, Switzerland (8 August 2025): Civil society organisations at INC-5.2 have come together to demand greater action as talks at an ongoing global plastic pollution summit, known as INC-5.2, teeter ...
From safeguarding whales in Chile to tackling illegal fishing in Tanzania – there’s lots of good news to share about our ...
The declining African lion population faces significant threat due to illegal trade of their bones, claws and teeth. Lions are easy to spot. Drive through the stunning savannahs of the Maasai Mara or ...
Over a thousand new species have been discovered in the Greater Mekong Region of Southeast Asia in just the last decade, according to a new report launched by WWF.
As temperatures rise, reindeer face a growing struggle to reach the lichen they depend on. More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea ...
Countries celebrated significant breakthroughs on two important, long-debated ocean-related technical decisions, but failed to reach consensus on the resource mobilization and review mechanisms needed ...
22 July 2025: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres today called for a ‘supercharged surge for renewable energy’ in a keynote speech in New York, saying that the world was on the ‘cusp of a new era, ...
Taking climate action demands real emission reductions by the global business community and the transformation of companies and their supply chains. That means targets and guidance must be backed by ...
Over 3,200 freshwater fish species have been recorded in Africa, with 28 new freshwater fish species described in 2024 alone. Africa has the world's highest per capita catch of freshwater fish: 2.56 ...
With over 15 million tonnes of plastics leaking into the ocean just since the start of the negotiations, WWF warns that progress on the treaty still lags behind the scale and urgency needed to end ...
WWF piloted its first Collective Action project on Water Stewardship in Taihu Basin, China back in 2011, and since then has established elaborate Collective Action initiatives in ecologically diverse ...
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 ...