Tag: World Wildlife Fund
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Green Search Engine Donates $1 Million to Rainforest Programs
Ecosia.org, a green-minded search engine that generates donations through ad clicks, has donated $1 million to rainforest protection programs.
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Winners of the WWF Video Competition: Not 'Murmuration,' Just Wonderful
'The Runner' and 'Life. Nature. You.' beat out 'Murmuration' and 200 others. Worth watching. They're short.
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The Week in Animal News: The Return of the Wooly Mammoth, Ziplining Bull Dog, and More
Scientists are close to reviving the extinct wooly mammoth through cloning. We also have a bulldog ziplining to a treehouse, a tiger killed for its whiskers, and more.
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Controversy over that Viral 'Murmuration' Video
A magical video of a flock of starlings has gone viral, and spurred questions from other filmmakers.
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Sleeping Black Rhinos Are Hung from Helicopters in Wild Journey to a New Home (Photos)
19 critically endangered black rhinos got the ride of a lifetime to a new home, suspended by their ankles from a helicopter.
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The Week in Pictures: Solar London Bridge, Translucent 'Chicken Chapel,' and More (Slideshow)
London has announced grand plans to build the world's largest solar bridge, which will generate 900,000 kilowatts of electricity every year and provide nearly 50 percent of the energy needed to power the central London railway
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The Week in Animal News: Drunk Elk Stuck in Tree, Famous Penguin Feared Dead, and More (Slideshow)
It's not exactly easy to free a drunk elk from a tree, we learned this week.
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WWF Encouraging Destructive Shrimp Farms?
It's true that shrimp farming has become so devastating to the environment that almost any standards created for the industry will be an improvement. But that doesn't mean they will be sustainable or that
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The 6th International Green Awards Are Calling for Your Entries
Have you got what it takes to win an International Green Award? These awards have built an increasingly prestigious profile over the last few years with both pioneering names and young innovators being rewarded for their extraordinary work in promoting
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WWF Responds to Global Witness' "Pandering to the Loggers" Report
Global Witness released a report yesterday claiming that WWF's partnerships with logging companies, created to bring sustainability to the global timber industry, have instead had the opposite effect and facilitated illegal logging
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Is WWF Selling Out Endangered Forests to Corporations?
The World Wide Fund for Nature established the Global Forest and Trade Network 20 years ago to increase and ensure sustainability in the global timber trade. But it's doing almost the
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Bulgaria Allows Bear Hunting, Armenia Takes Gentler Approach to Ursine Raids on Fields and Orchards
A Eurasian brown bear at a zoo in England. Photo: Scott Baverstock / Creative Commons. With hungry brown bears posing a nuisance to farmers in Armenia and Bulgaria, the two countries have taken dramatically opposing measures to solve the problem,
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Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Captivity
As far as endangered species go, it's mostly bad news, with the occasional positive story. Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola,
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Turkish Farmers Learn How to Cut Water Use in Half
As the temperature rises in Istanbul, talk always starts to turn to the topic of water: Specifically, whether there was enough rain and snow over
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Could Ecosia Be the World's Greenest Search Engine? (Video)
There are gads of green search engines - Green Maven, EcoSearch, Good Tree, Truevert, Ecocho... - and they all have their special qualities that make them eco-friendly. Some focus on bringing up green content in your search, some
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Is there a Hotel Greenwashing Police?
To psychologically prepare for cold weather, I've been planning a trip to somewhere warm this winter. Like me, more and more people who love to travel are also concerned about the eco-friendliness of the hotels they're
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An Ice Artist's Poignant Plea to Halt Global Warming
Despite all the scientific and anecdotal evidence, some people still manage to be skeptical, unaware, or just plain unconcerned about global warming and its effect on both people and planet. For those
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Turkey Report: Little to Cheer on World Enviro Day
Talk about your high/low cultural mingling: This week, Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, known for his densely layered and melancholy-tinged novels,
