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Features 2008

Cyclist © Jiri Rezac / WWF-UK
Residents of UK cities ranked in eco-debt index
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.
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Fishing boat at sea surrounded by seagulls © WWF-Canon / Hartmut JUNGIUS
Marine Bill needed for all of UK
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.
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Bali 2007 Climate change conference © Naoyuki Yamagishi / WWF
Back from Bali: The 2007 UN climate change conference
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.
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Sumatran elephant © WWF-Canon / Volker KESS
Sumatra's forests at risk
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.
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Rural England © Brent Stirton / Getty Images / WWF-UK
Climate change threat to England
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.
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Alistair McGowan
Interview with WWF ambassador Alistair McGowan
In his role as WWF ambassador Alistair McGowan campaigns for the major passion in his life – the environment.
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Arctic tale
Majestic polar bears in new film
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.
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Sumatran tiger © WWF / Frédy MERCAY
Sumatran tigers being sold into extinction
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.
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Fishing: Mafia Island © E Parker / WWF-UK
WWF in Tanzania: reefs, banks and pearls
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.
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David Nussbaum © WWF-UK
Interview with David Nussbaum
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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WWF in top five of prestigious Sky competition
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BBC Earth - see the film
The BBC's most ambitious film project
Earth is a natural history film based on the BBC series Planet Earth. More»


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