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Janie Wray and Hermann Meuter: Tuning in to the underwater world
One of the great profiles from our 2012 Annual Report. For more on this and other great conservation stories, visit wwf.ca/annualreport. Amid the soaring cedar forests and rocky shorelines overlooking...
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Supporting made-in-Canada solutions
It was learning to scuba dive that introduced Roz Ivey to the stunning diversity of marine life and prompted her lifelong commitment to marine conservation. That’s why she has taken a strong interest...
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Simon J. Mitchell: Working for the river we love
Simon J. Mitchell wakes up every morning to a view of the St. John flowing through fields and hardwood forests, bald eagles soaring overhead. “That’s why a lot of people live in New Brunswick,” says...
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Can investor risk lead to more sustainable mining?
By Gretchen Lyons, Manager, Conservation Communications, WWF International It’s also a lucrative business, which is why governments and investors continue to accept the associated risk of...
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Reflections on 2012: Happy New Year and thanks to our supporters, from...
By this measure, 2012 has been an amazing, worthwhile year. No issue has galvanized British Columbians concerned for the future of their coast like protecting the Great Bear region from the risks of...
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Captain Canada takes a stand for the Great Bear
Scott Niedermayer has had success at every level of his hockey career, racking up four Stanley Cups and two Olympic gold medals. Now, he brings that same spirit and winning record to his role as...
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Extra Terrestrial! Extraordinary new species discoveries in the Greater Mekong
These species can all be found in a new WWF report, Extra Terrestrial. © Gabor Csorba Among the ten species highlighted in the report is the aptly named Beelzebub’s tube-nosed bat, a diminutive but...
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Podcast: WWF’s Arctic species expert on co-management in the north
With a few hundred participants, this excellent forum, which is held every few years (as mandated by the Inuvialuit Final Agreement), proved again to be a very important gathering to assess how well...
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Rhino poaching toll reaches new high
A majority of the rhino deaths, 425, occurred in Kruger National Park, South Africa’s premier safari destination. Poaching incidents in Kruger were up sharply from 252 in 2011. Arrests of suspected...
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Update from the St. John River- what we’re working on in the New Year
We are embarking on a social ecological inventory (SEI) project with Brock University. Utilizing standard research methodologies, we will be working to identify and speak with groups, organizations,...
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Green team wins a trip to the Brazilian Rainforest
By Andrea Kean Andrea Kean, Janine Brophy and Stephen King made up the winning team from the company’s Johnson office in St. John, NL. Their innovative idea won them a trip to the Atlantic Rainforest...
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What it will take to stop the trade
In the Fall, WWF’s international species director, Carlos Drews joined us in Canada to give staff and supporters a strong look into the importance of combating illegal wildlife trade and what it will...
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Despite successes, Congo Basin forests being ‘emptied’ of their elephants
Authorities protecting the Gabonese segment of Central Africa’s biggest forest elephant stronghold captured a record number of poachers last week. However, “terrifying” intelligence gathered from...
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A good day for people and polar bears in Arviat
I'm feeling really, really good today, thanks to the great positive joint news release we have issued to today with the Inuit community of Arviat, Nunavut, on the western shores of Hudson Bay. For...
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The strange case of the Bowie Seamount: The least-protected protected area in...
Fishes, corals, sponges and other sea life flourish on underwater mountains, or seamounts. Known by the Haida Nation as Sgaan Kinghlas (meaning, a supernatural being looking out), Bowie Seamount rises...
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Poachers kill over 11,000 elephants in Gabon
According to a study by the Gabonese National Parks Agency, WWF and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), poachers have killed an estimated 11,100 elephants – between 44 to 77 per cent of the...
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Chinese New Year and the Year of the Snake: Why we love snakes – Part 1
I have loved snakes for most of my life. In fact I can tell you the exact moment I began to be interested in them. It was July 1963: I was seven years old and enjoying my summer vacation. I was...
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Understanding the mechanics and motivation behind the demand for animal...
By WWF photographer James Morgan. Having spent time with rangers and affected communities in Gabon in the first stage of my commission with WWF, my next trip was to Thailand to try and understand the...
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Thai prime minister must seize spotlight to end ivory trade
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is expected to make the opening speech for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) taking place in Bangkok next...
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Thai prime minister announces end to ivory trade
Prime Minister Shinawatra said at the opening of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok that Thailand would take steps to end ivory trade...
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