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Features 2008

Over the next month the residents of every city in Britain will plunge into ecological debt having consumed their fair share of resources for this year. But it doesn't have to be that way.

The draft Marine Bill published today by the Government includes encouraging measures to protect our marine environment, but its effectiveness will be limited unless it is implemented throughout the UK.

In this film Keith Allott, Head of Climate Change at WWF-UK and Kit Vaughan, Climate Change Adaptation Adviser at WWF-UK talk about how climate change is already impacting on vulnerable people, ecosystems and species.

Turning the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran province into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and is rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction.

Conservation organisations warn in a new booklet released today that the face of the South East of England could change forever within 50 years if opportunities to lessen the impacts of climate change are not taken now.

In his role as WWF ambassador Alistair McGowan campaigns for the major passion in his life – the environment.

Polar bears have long been a focus of WWF's on-the-ground research and conservation projects in the Arctic. Arctic Tale is a new documentary film that follows the lives of a polar bear, a walrus and their respective young.

Wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC have released a survey today warning that laws protecting the critically endangered Sumatran tiger have failed to prevent tiger body parts being offered on open sale in Indonesia.

The Tanzanian president, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has praised WWF's coastal resources management and sustainable livelihoods programmes in the country, during his official visit to fishing villages in Kilwa.

WWF-UK's Chief Executive, looks back on some of our achievements in 2007… and delivers a personal message of thanks to you.


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