Posted in WWF news on Jan 6th, 2012 No Comments »
The Galapagos Islands continue to call to increasing numbers of visitors — from a few thousand annually in the 1960s to more than 170,000 today. The purpose of the Galapagos National Park authority’s new regulations that will go into effect on February 1, 2012, is to enhance those travelers’ experiences while protecting the fragile ecosystems [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 4th, 2012 No Comments »
In 2011 we discussed destinations, interviewed experts and highlighted WWF’s work around the world. Here are 10 of the most read blog posts of the year. 10. Kenya or Tanzania: Which to choose? We discussed the similarities and differences between these two classic safari destinations. 9. Q-and-A: Northern Great Plains WWF Program Officer Dennis Jorgensen [...]
Posted in WWF news on Dec 13th, 2011 No Comments »
In 1572, a group of Spanish sailors that was fleeing South America was pushed by the South Equatorial Current into the Galapagos Islands. Having no navigational charts with them, the sailors referred to these newly found lands as the Islas Encantadas (Bewitched Islands) because they seemed to appear and disappear before their eyes in the [...]
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 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 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. [...]
Posted in WWF news on Sep 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
CONSERVATION NEWS Leaders in various western Pacific islands, including Micronesia, together have taken important strides toward protecting sharks by establishing the world’s largest shark sanctuary. It covers two million square miles of ocean. Two men are on trial in Madagascar for trying to smuggle nearly 200 of some of the world’s rarest tortoises out of [...]
Posted in WWF news on Sep 1st, 2011 No Comments »
Namibia not only boasts vast and spectacular landscapes and diverse, plentiful flora and fauna, but also one of the greatest African wildlife recovery stories ever told. Caroline Behringer, a member of WWF’s Media & External Affairs Team, recently took two journalists to see the successes of Namibia’s community conservancy model. The national community-based natural resource [...]
Posted in WWF news on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
Learn more about WWF’s Land of the Ice Bears expedition during a free webinar this Tuesday, August 30, 2011, from 7 – 8 p.m. EST, hosted by our tour operator Lindblad Expeditions. This special presentation will be led by a veteran expedition leader. Register now!