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WWF UK has launched an ad campaign attacking Shell

The Pai Forest is facing a drought-like situation due to acute shortage of water and its wildlife is in danger due to vanishing flora and fauna and excessive hunting in the area.

The WWF Programme Coordinator, Nasir Panhwar, has said this while briefing a team of journalists from different parts of Sindh at the Pai Forest lodge, some 10km away from the National Highway near Sakrand.

Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from an Indonesian government move to expand one of their last havens, a four-year-old national park on the island, conservation body WWF said on Thursday.

But WWF warned that increased efforts would be vital to ensure that poaching and other illegal activities -- like unsanctioned logging and settlement -- did not continue in the park, Tesso Nilo in Sumatra's Riau Province.

Rich nations will need to provide about US$130 billion a year by 2030 to help developing countries cope with climate change, or about five times current flows, the WWF conservation group said on Wednesday.

A WWF study showed that there were 16 funds, run by UN agencies, the World Bank and others, channelling money to poor nations to help them curb rising greenhouse gases and adapt to effects of warming such as droughts, floods and rising seas.

Sumatra's endangered elephants and tigers should get a boost from a move by Indonesia's government to expand one of their last havens, a national park on the island of Sumatra, the conservation group WWF said Thursday.
The area of the park, Tesso Nilo in Riau Province, is to be more than doubled to 212,500 acres. But the group warned that increased efforts would be vital to ensure that poaching and illegal logging did not continue.
WWF, whose headquarters are outside Geneva, said 60 to 80 elephants and about 50 tigers were believed to live in the area to be covered by the park.

researchers have started telemetry tests on gharials in the Chambal river to gather information for the species

"An attempt to develop ideas, actions for sustainable growth'
Climate change, water, waste management to be considered
Some areas would be related to IT solutions as drivers for low carbon economy

NEW DELHI: One of the largest conservation organisations in the country WWF India along with Wipro Limited has unveiled an initiative to explore the use of information technology to drive sustainable development.

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Endangered Gangetic River Dolphins can be sighted in the river in Dholpur district of Rajasthan
A rare sighting of a Gangetic river dolphin in the Chambal river.