Publications

Through the Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue (SAD), performance-based standards for salmon farming are being developed. This document provides the first draft of the principles and criteria that will form the final standards. When completed, the final standards will help minimize the key environmental and social impacts related to salmon farming.

Coral reefs are being lost to the world at a rate five times faster than rainforests, often as a result of polluted farm run-off. The good news is that solutions are being pioneered in Australia as a result of innovative lending, demonstrating that modern technology can significantly improve farm profitability and reduce pollution at the same time.

Putting a price on carbon pollution and investing in clean technology projects in developing countries could create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the U.S. and help America catch up to China and Europe in the clean energy race.

This case study, by consultant Nancy Diamond, demonstrates the application of a gender-integration tool that can be used by the conservation sector (called WWF Women’s Economic, Social, and Political Empowerment Tool or “WWESPE”), to the context of integrated population, health, environment (PHE) projects implemented by WWF-Nepal. The study focuses on the extent to which these WWF PHE projects contributed to women’s empowerment and/or conservation outcomes.

Through the Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue (ShAD), performance-based standards for shrimp farming are being developed. This document provides the first draft of the principles and criteria that will form the final standards. When completed, the final standards will help minimize the key environmental and social impacts related to shrimp farming.

Produced by WWF and Toyota, this document offers an overview of waste management issues faced by the Islands and a blueprint for sustainability.

The January 2010 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Ila Shrestha on being Nepal’s first woman ethnobotanist;
• Highlight of EFN's partnership with CSU on building capacity in the Andes-Amazon;
• Train Fellowship announcement; and
• EFN updates from the field.

This paper reviews the results of a study that aimed to document the strategies, experiences, successes and challenges faced by the Namibia Association of CBNRM Support Organizations.

A Review of U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service’s (MMS) “Arctic Oil Spill Response Research and Development Program – A Decade of Achievement.”

WWF commissioned these three reports to examine the current governance regime, identify governance and regulatory gaps and analyze options for improvements.

WWF Climate Savers Innovation Reports reveal how world-leading companies are taking imaginative, effective steps to make major cuts in their CO2 emissions.

The report focuses on four phenomena and/or regions where climate change may push the Earth system past tipping points with significant impacts within this century: sea level rise, particularly along the northeast U.S. coast, shifts in the Indian summer monsoon combined with the melting of Himalayan glaciers, Amazon die-back and drought, and shift in aridity in southwest North America. The report was produced by WWF and Allianz SE.

The October 2009 Newsletter includes:

• A review of an EFN workshop on training the next generation of turtle conservationists in Vietnam;
• Train Fellowship annoucement;
• Grant recipient information; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

Forests in the Amazon are increasingly threatened by illegal and unsustainable logging. Each year the Amazon’s forests are reduced by as much as 27,000 km2—roughly the size of Massachusetts. As the world’s top importer of forest products, the United States contributes significantly to this deforestation and forest degradation through increased market demand for high value commercial species, including mahogany and Spanish cedar.

Over the past few decades, the Arctic has warmed at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe. The impact of this on the Arctic’s physical systems, biological systems, and human inhabitants is large and projected to grow throughout this century and beyond.

This report concludes that sea-levels will very likely rise by more than one meter by 2100 -- more than twice the amount given in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 assessment that had excluded the contribution of ice sheets from their projection.

The July 2009 Newsletter includes:

• A 15 year celebration of EFN success;
• Highlights of grantee discoveries;
• Grantee updates from the field; and
• A story of Bishnu Devkota and his search for snow leopards in Nepal.

Analysis by WWF of palm oil production in Kalimantan, Indonesia, found that by pursuing a strategy of yield intensification and planting on degraded lands, the palm oil industry would effectively be able to tackle financial hurdles, minimize impact on biodiversity, and meet climate change criteria in terms of carbon payback without further deforestation.

This policy reaffirms WWF’s commitment to embrace a pro-poor approach to conservation to strive to find equitable solutions for people and the environment and makes special efforts to enable local people to play a key part in crafting solutions for sustainable development.

The April 2009 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Christophe Lambert Bene Bene on his work with elephants in Cameroon;
• Grant recipient information;
• Highlight of Agustin Iriarte Walton's work to protect the Andean cat; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

An overview of cutting-edge partnerships between WWF and businesses to deliver ambitious reductions in CO2 emissions by member companies and their supply chains.

Forests in the Amur-Heilong watershed, particularly those in the Russian Far East, are under tremendous pressure to supply timber to meet growing global demand for wood products. Increasing demand for this timber over the last two decades has fueled illegal and unsustainable logging in some of the Amur’s most valuable and threatened forests.

The January 2009 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Catherine Lwando on invasive species research in Zambia;
• An article by Phaivanh Phiapalath on douc langurs in Laos;
• Grantee recipient information; and
• Grantee updates from the field.