NEWS RELEASES AND STATEMENTS
Press Releases Archives
23 November, 1998
Stop Dragging your Feet on Cap Reform, says WWF
Brussels, Belgium - Addressing a press conference on the first day of November's EU Agriculture Council, WWF called on Farm Ministers to agree that all CAP support be dependent upon farmers ...
17 November, 1998
WWF Calls For Designating Wadden Sea as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
WWF has called on countries bordering the North Sea to declare the Wadden Sea a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area. Europe's largest coastal wetland - the Wadden Sea - is struggling to recover... ...
(En Français)
16 November, 1998
ICCAT Must Ensure Recovery of Threatened Bluefin Tuna, Says WWF
WWF called on Atlantic tuna fishing nations to honour their commitment to adopt a bona fide recovery plan for severely depleted bluefin tuna stocks as they meet this week at.....
(En Français)
14 November, 1998
Ministers Agree Process But Fail to Give Guidance
Buenos Aires - Two weeks of negotiations at the UN climate conference, characterised by WWF as
12 November, 1998
Wildlife Trade Becomes A Matter Of Attitude
Hong Kong--While there are still admitted users of Tiger bone and rhino horn as medicine in Hong Kong, 59 percent of Hong Kong Chinese who use traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) claim they would not take medicine containing wild animal parts, according to a new report by TRAFFIC East Asia.
(En Français)
12 November, 1998
US Crosses the Starting Line, but continues to lag behind
The US announced it was signing the Kyoto Protocol with a small package of domestic measures. (The US and Iceland were the two industrialised countries that had not signed the Protocol...
11 November, 1998
WWF and Greenpeace Welcome the Initiative of Argentina, Looking Into Details
Buenos Aires.- Today, President Carlos Menem of Argentina stated his country's intention to take on a commitment under the Kyoto Protocol in the same time period as industrialized countries...
9 November, 1998
Ministers urged to agree limit on Pollution Trading
Buenos Aires, - If industrialised countries concentrate on reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at home they can benefit the global climate and their economies, according ...
(En Français)
6 November, 1998
Japan Begins 12th “Scientific“ Whale Hunt With New Boat
GLAND, Switzerland -- WWF urged Japan to reconsider its large-scale scientific whaling as it flagged off its whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean for the 12th year in a row. ...
(En Français)
5 November, 1998
To Save Lives, Give Global Warming the Same Priority As Biological Weapons, Says WWF
Buenos Aires, 5 November 1998 - Global warming is creating the conditions for an explosive spread in infectious diseases that are already claiming new victims in industrialised countries, according to a scientific report (1) from WWF...
(En Français)
1 November, 1998
Sea Otters and Dolphins Poisoned
As the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) (1) meets to deliberate the use of organotin paints (2) in London this week (2-6 November 1998), disturbing evidence of their effects are coming from around the world....
(En Français)
30 October, 1998
Climate Change Risk to Forests Underlines Call for Faster Co2 Cuts
Buenos Aires - Forests across the globe are at grave risk from climate change according to a new report released today by WWF - the World Wide Fund for Nature (1). One-third of the world's forests could be affected in the future. WWF fears a knock-on effect for many of the three-quarters of the world's plant and animal species which depend on forests for their survival. Among them are the grizzly bear, the woodland caribou (reindeer) and the Bengal tiger.
30 October, 1998
Democratic Republic of Congo's Wildlife Caught in the Crossfire
Gland, Switzerland - The possible escalation of the conflict in the east and northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could have disastrous consequences ...
(En Français)
30 October, 1998
Nations Draft Agreement On Fishing Fleet Overcapacity
30 October 1998
ROME, Italy -- A UN fisheries meeting this week drafted a global action plan to address one of the most important factors contributing to overfishing--too many boats chasing too few fish. However,....
27 October, 1998
FAO Set To Tackle Major Fisheries Threats
ROME, Italy -- The conservation organization WWF today urged the world’s fishing nations at the FAO fisheries meeting which opens this week to develop effective action plans to address the growing problems of fishing fleet overcapacity...
20 October, 1998
Collapsing MAI Negotiations - Reorientation needed
PARIS, France -- With the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) on the verge of collapse after France withdrew from the negotiations, WWF urges the OECD countries to make sustainable development the cornerstone of any future investment agreement.
13 October, 1998
WTO Appeal Court Fails to Protect the Global Environment
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Trade Organization has failed to correct its bias against environment in the last chance it had in the famous 'shrimp-turtle' case, the conservation organization WWF said here today.
9 October, 1998
China to Beam the Environmental TV Series-WWF Earth Report
The WWF Earth Report, a global weekly environmental programme on television, is being launched today in China, opening new horizons for nearly 350 million Chinese television viewers.
(En Français)
5 October, 1998
Mauritania's Banc d'Arguin National Park gets help for long-term conservation
BANC D'ARGUIN, Mauritania - To allow sustainable management of the fish population in Mauritania's Parc National du Banc d'Arguin WWF has raised 400,000 Swiss francs...
(En Français)
1 October, 1998
A third of the Earth's natural wealth lost in last 25 years, says WWF'S Living Planet Report
LONDON, 1 October: The Earth has lost more than 30 per cent of its natural wealth since 1970, according to a new report by WWF launched today.
(En Français)
(En Español)
28 September, 1998
EU must insist on effective clean-up of Coto Doñana toxic spill
Unless effective clean-up measures are in place, the European Commission should withhold further financial assistance for cleaning up one of Europe's largest toxic spills which has seriously affected the Coto Doñana...
26 September, 1998
Innovative Conservation Scheme Benefits Namibian People and Wildlife
Gland, Switzerland - Namibia's rural people and magnificent wildlife are reaping the first rewards from an innovative rural development and conservation scheme worthy of international recognition for its farsightedness, the conservation organization WWF said today.
18 September, 1998
WWF rushes emergency relief to flood-stricken Kaziranga National Park in India
Geneva, 18 September -- The conservation organization, WWF, today announced it was providing financial assistance from its Tiger Emergency Fund for rescue work in flood-stricken Kaziranga National Park...
14 September, 1998
WWF FISHERIES CONFERENCE SEEKS SOLUTIONS TO CURRENT CRISIS:
LISBON -- At the start of an international fisheries conference here today, the conservation organization WWF made three major announcements which highlight solutions to the global fisheries crisis...
10 September, 1998
Global “PIC“ Treaty a Step Forward, Says WWF, But Outright Elimination of Hazardous Chemicals Remains the Big Gap
GLAND, Switzerland: The conservation organization WWF welcomes the signing of a new convention - Prior Informed Consent (PIC)...
9 September, 1998
DISTANT WATER FISHING THREATENS WORLD FISHERIES
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Oversized, distant water fishing fleets are pillaging the world’s oceans, often in the waters of developing countries where they threaten the existence of local fisheries, WWF warned today.
25 August, 1998
10% OF WORLD'S TREE SPECIES THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
Geneva - The World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), IUCN -- the World Conservation Union and the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) today announced that 10% of the world's known tree species face extinction.
19 August, 1998
Africa's Rhinos Slowly Growing in Numbers
The total populations of the two African species of rhinoceros, the Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) and the White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum) are slowly growing, according to new estimates announced today by the conservation organizations WWF and IUCN.
(En Français)
29 July, 1998
Greece in the Grip of Worst Forest Fires
WWF today urged the Greek Government to take immediate action to put out the forest fires raging in Taygetos in the
Peloponnese peninsula in southern
Greece...
28 July, 1998
WWF Urges WTO to Correct Its Shrimp-Turtle Case Ruling
The conservation organization WWF today released a second 'Amicus Curiae Brief' (Friend of the Court) report which calls on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to
reassess it's original dispute panel
decision...
27 July, 1998
Mongolian Oil Concessions Could Threaten Antelopes
GLAND, Switzerland - Mongolia's efforts to gain much-needed hard
currency through major oil concessions could threaten its so far
unspoiled natural heritage, the conservation organization WWF said
today.
8 July, 1998
Consumers Urged to Buy 'Good Wood' Carvings
London - The conservation organisation WWF today urged tourists and
importers to buy 'good wood' carvings from Kenya in order to reduce
pressure on over-exploited tree species. The call was made at an
international meeting of the People and Plants initiative, a joint programme
by WWF, UNESCO and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew to address the
global threats facing plants and trees.
3 July, 1998
WWF Urges Governments to Accelerate Treaty Process in View of Known Dangers from POPs
MONTREAL, Canada -- The conservation organization WWF
today urged governments at the close of the first round of
treaty talks on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to speed
up the process of phasing out POPS in tune with the widely
held belief 'urgent action' is needed.
30 June, 1998
Three Decades After Silent Spring, DDT Still Menacing the Environment
Montreal, June 30, 1998 -- While banned decades ago in industrialized
countries, thousands of tons of the deadly pesticide DDT are still used
each year, mainly to fight malaria. Citing the availability of safer and often
more effective alternatives, WWF is calling for a global phaseout and
eventual ban on DDT production and use by the year 2007.
29 June, 1998
WWF Calls for Early Phase-Out of Dangerous Chemicals as Talks Begin on POPs
MONTREAL, Canada -- The conservation organization WWF today urged
governments at the start of the treaty negotiations on persistent organic
pollutants (POPs) to be tough in dealing with the growing stock of dangerous chemicals being released into the environment.
12 June, 1998
Glimmer of Hope for Closing Loopholes in Kyoto Climate Change Agreement
WWF welcomed small but important
steps forward in closing the major loopholes written into last years Kyoto agreement on climate change, as two weeks of intergovernmental talks ended today. But the conference did not debate the critical need for industrialised nations to strengthen domestic efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide.
8 June, 1998
WWF & IUCN Outline 'Vision for Our Blue Planet' on World Oceans Day
At EXPO '98, the conservation organization WWF and the IUCN-World Conservation Union, today
released their first-ever global strategy for marine conservation:
Creating a Sea Change: A Vision for Our Blue Planet.
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