Posted in WWF news on Oct 26th, 2011 No Comments »
WILDLIFE “The tracks we find are old, which is a problem,” WWF’s Steve Felton writes from Namibia. “It is already 11 o’clock and the sun is getting hot. That’s the time that many tourists start to think about lunch and getting back to the lodge.” But not Felton, and the expert trackers searching for Namibia’s [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Standing on the verandah of your chalet at the Yala Safari Village, the sun rising over the cool blue of the Indian Ocean a short walk away, something rustling in the dry evergreen forest below catches your eye. It’s too big to be a bird, which number in the thousands at this national park in [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 13th, 2011 1 Comment »
Jennifer Gerholdt has been working as a Program Officer in WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) for more than three and a half years, helping to save the world’s remaining natural forests. But it wasn’t until this July that she had the opportunity to visit one first-hand. Gerholdt, along with members of the GFTN [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Guardians of our climate and protectors of our health, trees first appeared on Earth more 380 million years ago. Our planet’s forests store more carbon than is contained in the Earth’s entire atmosphere, and they give off oxygen—making it possible for us to live here. Some put it this way: our cells “speak the same [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Oct 6th, 2011 No Comments »
The Northern Great Plains region owes much of its historic biodiversity to the once-ubiquitous bison. An icon of the plains, the American bison once saw populations comprised of upwards of 60 million individuals. 10. Bison can persist in arid regions (Mexico) and in areas experiencing deep snow cover (Yellowstone National Park). Grasses and sedges form [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
The United States and Indonesian governments signed an agreement September 29, 2011 that will result in $28.5 million in funding to protect a large block of forest land in the Indonesian region known as the Heart of Borneo. WWF and The Nature Conservancy worked with the two governments to develop this innovative conservation financing approach. [...]