WWF is thrilled to announce Alexa White as the winner of the second-annual WWF-US Conservation Leadership Award. This award aims to give the next generation of conservation leaders access to a global platform and experts. It also provides a financial prize that can be used to further recipients’ professional or educational goals related to their conservation work.
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Meet Dr. Parikshit Kakati, WWF India’s wildlife veterinary specialist
Dr. Parikshit Kakati, WWF India’s wildlife veterinary specialist, plays a key role during the flood season in Assam, India, as part of a team that rescues and treats injured wild animals.
Read moreSustainable pepper farming supports people and nature in Malaysian Borneo
Empowering farmers with green practices builds livelihoods while strengthening biodiversity.
Read moreThermal technology promises to halt poaching of rhinos
Since 2016, WWF and FLIR Systems Inc., a thermal imaging company, have been working together to equip rangers in Kenya with night vision thermal technology to better protect wildlife from poaching under cover of darkness. Since the project began, no rhinos have been poached in the areas where the night vision cameras operate.
Read morePark City, Utah recognized as a national leader on climate action
Park City, Utah is the U.S. National Winner of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge in recognition of its leadership addressing the climate crisis.
Read moreUnparalleled in modern history, West Coast fires necessitate urgent climate action
Apocalyptic scenes have multiplied in recent weeks, as fires claim lives and incinerate communities across the West Coast. The flames are fueled by a confluence of interwoven drivers, including decades of fire management practices focused on fire suppression paired with the worsening climate crisis.
Read moreThe future of flight in an era of climate crisis
Learn four steps to rebuild air travel in a way that protects us against dangerous climate change.
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How four communities value and protect their mangroves
Around the world, communities depend on mangroves for food, protection, and income. These coastal forests provide for communities and the communities, in turn, protect the mangroves. It’s a relationship found all over the world across the more than 100 countries where mangroves guard the coast. Here are four places where a snapshot tells the story.
Read moreCOVID & the Ba’Aka Tribe of Dzanga-Sangha
In the Central African Republic, WWF supports the Indigenous Ba’Aka tribe of Dzanga-Sangha in social distancing to protect themselves from COVID-19.
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Polar bears, climate crisis, and oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The Arctic Refuge has been a place undisturbed by development. But in 2017 Congress approved opening the Coastal Plain of the Refuge to allow for oil and gas drilling. WWF has been vocal in its opposition for a host of reasons, and there is one significant bit of logic even Fish and Wildlife agrees with—the climate crisis makes the future of the region uncertain. Oil and gas development only compounds the problem.
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