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Explore Kathmandu’s cultural sites and trek through the undulating valleys of the mountains that stretch as far as the eye can see in the March edition of the WWF Travel enewsletter.
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Posted in WWF news on Feb 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Online apparel retailer New Headings has launched a new gear collection that features the WWF panda logo. The online store offers hats, performance outerwear, sun-protective shirts and pants, T-shirts, sweatshirts and other items that will help make packing for your WWF tour a breeze.
New Headings donates 20% of all sales to WWF in support of [...]
Posted in WWF news, Wildlife on Feb 12th, 2010 No Comments »
On February 14, the Chinese lunar calendar rolls into the Year of the Tiger. Unfortunately, the plight of wild tigers doesn’t call for much celebration. Three subspecies have been driven to extinction in the past century alone and experts estimate there are as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild. The good news is [...]
Posted in WWF news on Feb 7th, 2010 No Comments »
Starting to plan your summer travels? Let the February edition of the WWF Travel enewsletter be your guide to several excellent group tour ideas, including several options for seeing Alaska.
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Posted in WWF news on Jan 29th, 2010 No Comments »
We recently took a look at the top UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves that we’ll visit on tours in 2010. But what about UNESCO’s more famous designation, the honor of World Heritage Site?
Unlike a World Biosphere Reserve, which is a protected areas demonstrating a balanced relationship between man and nature, a World Heritage Site [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 28th, 2010 No Comments »
An astonishing amount of economic development and a growing population have turned China into a region struggling to manage the resulting environmental challenges. WWF was the first environmental group invited by the government to work in China 30 years ago. From restoring the Yangtze River wetlands to environmental education and panda conservation, WWF seeks to [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
WWF is praising the Peruvian government’s announcement last week that it will increase funding to Amazon conservation efforts and boost its protection of the vital rain forest.
The Peruvian National Park Service is planning to allocate nearly $300,000 to boost protection of an area larger than the nation of El Salvador. This region, called the Purus [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Iconic animal populations are at risk of habitat loss and poaching, with climate change emerging as the clear threat on WWF International’s Annual Watch List. This year’s watch list includes five species directly impacted by climate change, as well as the monarch butterfly, a species at the center of an endangered biological phenomenon.
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Posted in WWF news on Jan 10th, 2010 No Comments »
World Wildlife Fund’s staff was hard at work over the holidays adding even more destinations to our 2010 tour lineup. See which sets of far-flung islands and other remote destinations we’ll now visit this year in the latest edition of the WWF Travel Enewsletter.
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Posted in WWF news on Jan 5th, 2010 No Comments »
WWF travelers and readers certainly like to go road tripping – or better yet, road “clicking.” Based on the thousands of hits to our blog since its inception in June, here are the most popular posts of 2009:
10. Big Bend National Park: A Birder’s Paradise
What makes our tour leader, a master bander and avian expert, [...]