WWF

India

New Chinese rule for wildlife

China issued the

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Trade, Endangered Species, Tiger, Wildlife Trade, Legislation, WWF, China

Wildlife

From tiger conflict to tourism: Social transformation, poverty alleviation and conservation initiative in the Sunderbans

The Sunderbans are perhaps the last true wild frontier of the Indian Subcontinent and conflict between man and animal is quite common. On the initiative both of the Field Director of the Tiger Reserve and WWF India West Bengal State Office several local youth, who before mostly had been poachers, were motivated to support the Forest Department in different conservation

Publication Date:

31/03/2006

Author(s): Marcus Bauer

Tags:

Sundarbans, Sundarban NP, Mangroves, Wildlife, Tiger, Tiger Conservation, Poaching, People - Animal Conflicts, Tourism, Poverty, Unemployment, WWF, West Bengal

Industry

Common heritage

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is a global biodiversity hotspot and contains a number of "Global 200 ecoregions' identified globally by WWF. Much of the area, especially along the Greater Annamite Mountains, is biologically unexplored. The climate, geology and ecology of the six GMS countries are very similar. The countries share three large rivers

Publication Date:

30/08/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Endangered Species, Wildlife, Biodiversity, WWF, Myanmar, Thailand

India

Sugary agenda

Coke in conservation mode?

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040531

pp:

0

Tags:

Coca Cola, WWF

Environment

The ape debate

The survival of the orangutans seems to be the bone of contention between the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) and Malaysian environment experts. The uk chapter of wwf alleges that 91 per cent of

Publication Date:

14/02/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040215

pp:

0

Tags:

Endangered Species, Monkey, WWF, Malaysia

India