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Coca-Cola and three global organizations including WWF are giving a #toasttowater to draw attention and mobilize global action and attention to freshwater issues on World Water Day, March 22. Their website will display a compilation of posts coming in from around the world.
Environmentalists around the world are putting cutting-edge technology to use on a daily basis. “New technologies have given conservationists abilities that would have seemed like super powers just a few years ago,” WWF Chief Scientist Jon Hoekstra wrote in an essay in this month’s in Foreign Affairs magazine.
As a traveler, you have tremendous power to decrease the demand for illegal products by making informed purchases. Your purchases abroad and at home have a profound impact on wildlife. Demand for illegal products made from endangered species fuels wildlife crime and devastates populations of elephants, marine turtles, rhinos and tigers, among other species.
Guest post by Kendal Yoakum, Marketing Coordinator at Natural Habitat Adventures I’ll admit it…marine pollution isn’t an uplifting topic. But it’s necessary once in a while to bring attention to not-so-pleasant subjects that impact us.
Kudos to California. Last October, it became the first state to ban lead ammunition for all types of hunting. The ban will benefit the state’s namesake condors, which nearly went extinct. In 1982, only 22 California condors remained on the planet.
Prince Charles of Wales and William, Duke of Cambridge, recently issued six videos to urge the end of the illegal wildlife trade through the support of organizations who are working on the ground in these countries, with governments and raising awareness to end the demand of illegal wildlife products in key markets, such as Asia.
On January 31, 2014, the State Department released its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement of the Keystone XL pipeline in an 11-volume publication. The proposed pipeline segment would carry heavy oil from Canada’s tar sands across Nebraska and five other states to refineries in Texas.
The New York Times Lens recently featured a heart-warming photo essay highlighting how local communities in Kenya are working to protect their endangered wildlife. In the photo above, a ranger named Kamara is sleeping with three orphaned rhino calves at Kenya’s Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.
By Jacqueline Nunes, Writer, Strategic Partnerships & Development, WWF-Canada. Way, way, way up—way up—north is probably not the first place you’d look if you wanted to find a shark.
The Arctic is often thought of as a remote and distant land – far-enough away that it seems improbable that changes there are having an effect on most of us.
Article author Karen Douthwaite is WWF’s Senior Program Officer for the Mesoamerican Reef. They measure 40 feet, weigh more than 20 tons and can have a lifespan of more than 100 years.
Last fall, in the midst of burned and charred trees left in the wake of Yosemite National Park’s Rim Fire, I participated in, of all things, a wedding. It was the most beautiful wedding I have ever attended.
