Share this content
The content produced by WWF is free for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution- Share Alike 3.0 License and GNU Free Documentation License.
All we ask is that you link back to our web site.
Please do not use any content out-of-context or selectively in order to misrepresent WWF's position.
News & Facts on the Environment
Latest News
04 Sep 2008
100 Hawksbill turtles die in latest Filipino poaching incident
Foreign poaching of Philippines marine life has flared up as an issue again following the discovery of more than 100 dead Hawksbill turtles aboard a Vietnamese fishing vessel apprehended near Malampaya.
» Read more
04 Sep 2008
Narwhal massacre provokes outrage in Greenland
The discovery of dozens of massacred narwhals on the east coast of Greenland has widened divisions between hunting and tourism interests.
» Read more
03 Sep 2008
Putin collars Dr Darman’s tiger
The Amur tiger has leapt into the headlines with former Russian president Vladimir Putin shooting a tiger with a tranquillizing gun in Russia’s far east, before tagging the tiger with a collar containing a satellite radio.
» Read more
Feature Stories
07 Aug 2008
Saving Sumatra’s Endangered Peoples
The Orang Rimba people have inhabited the jungles of Sumatra for centuries, traveling in tight-knit family groups in the Indonesian forests, hunting, fishing and collecting non-timber forest products on their traditional lands. Members of this indigenous tribe occasionally trade goods with villages on the edge of the forest, but prefer to keep to themselves. Now, as Sumatra’s forests disappear under the relentless onslaught of chainsaws and bulldozers, even keeping to themselves is becoming impossible.
» Read more
