All the latest news from WWF-UK http://www.wwf.org.uk/news Webmaster - web@wwf.org.uk en-gb Copyright: (c) WWF-UK, 2006 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:04:41 GMT http://www.wwf.org.uk/news http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005280.asp Managers and stakeholders in freshwater systems need to stop talking about adaptation to climate change and start taking action, WWF, the conservation organisation, told World Water Week in Stockholm today. 2008-08-21 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005278.asp Businesses, governments and people across the UK are inadvertently contributing to the slow death of some of the world's most iconic rivers, according to a new report by WWF. 2008-08-20 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005274.asp Today, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld WWF's complaint against an advert placed by Shell in the Financial Times earlier this year, which suggested that oil sands were a sustainable energy source. The ASA - the independent body responsible for regulating UK advertising - branded the advert 'misleading', due to its ambiguous use of the word 'sustainable'. 2008-08-13 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005256.asp Energy experts say renewables and energy efficiency could plug the 'energy gap'. 2008-08-01 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005255.asp Huge gaps in U.S. regulations for tigers held in captivity could make the big cats a target for illegal trade, wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC and WWF found in the first-ever comprehensive report on captive tiger regulations across the United States. 2008-07-31 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005252.asp WWF-UK welcomes the findings of the joint committee report on the Draft Marine Bill which have been published today (30 July). The report raises important points about the need to strengthen the provisions of the Marine Bill to ensure our seas are managed sustainably. 2008-07-30 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005247.asp A new report from WWF and Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) warns that extracting oil from unconventional sources such as sand or shale is environmentally unsustainable and seriously threatens international efforts to control climate change. 2008-07-29 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005241.asp WWF-UK and other leaders of the UK's largest coalition against climate change warned the prime minister, Gordon Brown that a new coal plant in Kingsnorth in Kent will cause decades of spiralling emissions and severely undermine the government's ability to meet its climate targets. 2008-07-23 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005237.asp A new WWF-UK report released this week shows that almost one-fifth of wood imported into the EU in 2006 came from illegal sources. The UK is the second largest importer, according to the report. 2008-07-22 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005222.asp People living within the Thames basin face increased risk of floods and droughts as the landscape changes as a result of climate change, according to a new WWF-UK report released today. 2008-07-16 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005224.asp WWF has welcomed the government's publication of the list of proposals for generating power from the Severn estuary. 2008-07-16 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005208.asp Aubrey Buxton (Lord Buxton of Alsa), a founding trustee of WWF-UK and now our Vice-President, is celebrating his 90th birthday with family and friends at his home on the north Norfolk coast. 2008-07-15 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005220.asp WWF-UK welcomes the government's announcement that the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) must begin to report on the carbon emissions of its most polluting projects. 2008-07-14 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005217.asp Two top experts strongly challenge the claims of Northern Ireland's Minister of the Environment, Sammy Wilson, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had covered up evidence regarding climate change. 2008-07-11 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005209.asp WWF has criticised the Group of Eight (G8) leaders on their failure to boost international climate negotiations at their summit in the city of Toyako in Japan. 2008-07-08 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005204.asp Research commissioned by WWF, published today, calls for the G8 countries to commit at their annual summit in Japan next week to significant and binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 2008-07-04 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005205.asp The launch of a dedicated WWF TV channel will make campaigning videos of the world's leading independent environmental organisation even more accessible to a worldwide audience. 2008-07-04 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005198.asp Environmental management and performance in the UK's Higher Education (HE) sector over the last year has improved remarkably, according to WWF-UK sponsored research. 2008-07-03 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005196.asp WWF-UK has highlighted the risk of committing the UK to a new generation of coal-fired power stations without providing legal limits on carbon emissions. 2008-07-02 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005194.asp After a 10 day voyage in the Arctic, students Emma Biermann and Casper ter Kuile from Warwick University have been to Downing Street to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. 2008-07-01 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005190.asp WWF welcome moves by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) - responsible for whaling management - to consider how it can play a part in whale conservation in the future. But WWF warns that the process, agreed at last week's IWC annual meeting, might take too long for some threatened whale and dolphin species. 2008-06-30 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005192.asp WWF welcomes the commitment by international governments to protect the vast underwater mountain chain in the Atlantic Ocean, called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 2008-06-30 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005191.asp The Council of the European Union can ignore scientific advice and set fishing quotas that put fragile cod stocks at risk. 2008-06-27 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005171.asp Christopher Ward has retired as chairman of WWF-UK after a long association with the charity. 2008-06-27 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005184.asp The UK government's renewable energy strategy, announced today, could spark 'a much-needed green energy revolution' and give incentives for homeowners to go green, said WWF-UK 2008-06-26 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005183.asp Thousands of ships sailing the world's oceans are effectively without nationality, enabling their owners to easily evade international laws and resulting in illegal activities such as pirate fishing, arms smuggling and people trafficking. 2008-06-26 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005168.asp Great whales are not responsible for the degraded state of the world's fisheries. 2008-06-24 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005178.asp We cannot afford to wait. 2008-06-24 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005164.asp The World Bank needs to fundamentally change its current funding priorities and set ambitious and measurable targets to 'decarbonise' its energy investment portfolio, if it is to live up to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's vision of it as "the environment bank". 2008-06-23 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005161.asp Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new WWF International report on the impacts of climate change on whales in the southern hemisphere, has found. 2008-06-19 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005152.asp The impact of soaring oil prices on the UK economy will significantly reduce future air passenger numbers, bringing into question the need for airport expansion, according to new independent research released by WWF-UK today. 2008-06-16 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005154.asp WWF-UK welcomed the announcement on environmental policy by the Leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron on 16 June as a big step forward for controlling climate change. 2008-06-16 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005153.asp The WWF Network welcomes today's move by the European Commission to close the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery to EU industrial fleets on 16 June, two weeks before the official season ends - but reminds policymakers of the need now for urgent and more far-reaching fisheries management reform to avoid the collapse of the species. 2008-06-13 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005151.asp Leading UK wildlife and conservation groups today praised the police for the prosecution of a man convicted of trading in large amounts of illegal ivory - but warn that the case highlights British demand for ivory items. 2008-06-13 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005141.asp WWF-UK welcomes the Brazilian government's creation of three new protected areas in the Amazon to mark World Environment Day. 2008-06-09 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005135.asp WWF has called on the EU to investigate the use of illegal spotter planes by at least 28 Italian industrial fishing fleets to detect fish stocks in the waters between the central Mediterranean islands of Malta, Pantelleria and Lampedusa. 2008-06-06 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005118.asp Governments are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, from 2-13 June to continue discussions towards agreeing a new climate deal to follow the first round of the Kyoto Protocol, which comes to an end in 2012 ? a vital move if we're to combat climate change. 2008-06-04 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005117.asp On Monday 9 June, two UK students will set off to the Arctic to join WWF's 'Voyage for the Future' ? an initiative that aims to boost our efforts to tackle climate change. 2008-06-04 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005116.asp A new coalition of housing and environmental organisations, businesses and government agencies is calling for concerted action to reduce the environmental impact of the UK's existing homes. 2008-06-03 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005114.asp WWF welcomed the long overdue recognition of global species and biological (biodiversity) loss as a key development issue, in a major economic report released on Thursday at the annual, UN-organised Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn in Germany. 2008-05-30 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005115.asp Environment ministers from 60countries including the UK, have committed to working towards ambitious targets to reduce deforestation at the annual UN-organised Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn in Germany this week. 2008-05-30 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005109.asp Protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon have the potential to reduce total carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation by 1.1 billion tonnes by 2050, a new report from WWF-Brazil has revealed. 2008-05-30 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005110.asp WWF-designed video camera traps, installed to capture wildlife footage in the jungles of South-east Asia, have twice recorded remarkable images of the world's rarest rhino accompanied by a calf. 2008-05-29 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005104.asp A number of prestigious WWF awards for outstanding contributions to conservation have been announced at our annual conference in Turkey. 2008-05-27 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005102.asp The Whitley Award for conservation, donated by WWF-UK, was awarded on 21 May to a Peruvian ecologist for his community-based approach to saving a region of the Amazon in south-western Peru, from over-development. 2008-05-22 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005101.asp The government must act to ensure that no new coal-fired power stations are built in the UK until carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been proven to work on a large scale and can be installed from the outset, a new report by WWF warned today. 2008-05-21 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005093.asp WWF-UK welcomes National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) a campaign created by the financial services industry and community groups around the country to encourage investors to consider green and ethical investment options. 2008-05-19 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005089.asp Biodiversity has declined by more than a quarter in the last 35 years, a new report from WWF shows. 2008-05-16 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005088.asp A report released today by WWF-UK shows that the vast majority of top UK businesses hope to cut business flights in the coming decade ? a revelation that raises serious questions about current UK policy on airport expansion and its supposed links to the nation's economic health. 2008-05-16 http://www.wwf.org.uk/news/n_0000005087.asp WWF-UK is delighted to welcome our new director of Supporter Relationship Management (SRM), Tobin Aldrich, previously the director of communications and fundraising at The National Deaf Children's Society. 2008-05-15