Publications

In 2009, WWF joined with other international conservation organizations to adopt this framework, which reflects WWF’s interest to promote integration of human rights in conservation policy and practice.

The October 2008 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Olga Lucía Hernández-Manrique on climate change in the Upper Amazon Basin;
• Train Fellowship announcements;
• Highlight of Nadia Bood's work on resilience to climate change in the Mesoamerican Reef;
• An article by Fleuria Monique Randriatsivery on the creation of Anadabolava Protected Area; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

The July 2008 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Maria Ursula Valdez Ortiz on her work with forest raptors in the Peruvian Amazon;
• An article by Ratnakoemarie Chequita Bhikhi on tree biodiversity in Guyana;
• Highlight of Jose Bayardo Alemán Mejía's work with reptile near the Copan River in Honduras; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

This WWF report assesses human-wildlife conflict cases, focusing on elephants. Often the scale of the damage that they cause, and the fact that they can injure or even kill humans, makes them the species that communities most fear.

The April 2008 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Hélio Neves on sustainable financing of Mozambique’s protected areas;
• Grant recipient information; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

This fact sheet details the largest issues facing the Arctic as a result of climate change, including the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of methane and CO2, and provides an overview of how they negatively impact Arctic vegetation and the ability for Arctic species to survive.

This fact sheet focuses on the effects of new species migrating to the area and creating competition for food and possibly importing new parasites and diseases. In addition, migratory birds arriving to the Arctic from non-Arctic areas will experience the disappearance of their stop-over nesting sites as a result of rising sea levels.

This case study is designed to help answer the question: How can the conservation community further contribute to meeting unmet need for family planning in order to reduce future pressure on natural resources and biodiversity and promote more sustainable livelihoods?

This case study is designed to help answer the question: How can the conservation community further contribute to meeting unmet need for family planning in order to reduce future pressure on natural resources and biodiversity and promote more sustainable livelihoods?

Conservation projects working in remote areas of outstanding biodiversity in developing countries often partner with local communities. This manual outlines an approach that integrates health and voluntary family planning into conservation projects, developing synergies that improve the health of both people and ecosystems.

The document describes practical ways of mainstreaming the WWF policy commitments to indigenous peoples and their rights in the context of applying WWF’s Standards for Project and Program Management.

This policy reflects WWF’s dedication to respecting indigenous and traditional peoples' human and development rights and it recognizes the importance of conserving their cultures. (Spanish)

This policy reflects WWF’s dedication to respecting indigenous and traditional peoples' human and development rights and it recognizes the importance of conserving their cultures. (French)

This policy reflects WWF’s dedication to respecting indigenous and traditional peoples' human and development rights and it recognizes the importance of conserving their cultures.

The October 2007 Newsletter includes:

• A story by Kama Dean on fishers in Mexico and turtle conservation;
• An article by Frida Lanshammar on environmental education in Tanzania;
• A study by Anjala Pyakurel on community forestry efforts in Nepal;
• An article by Zakiya Aloyce on land use in rural Tanzania;
• Highlight of Augusto Mulanovich's ecobusiness as a strategy for nature conservation; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

This BioScience journal article presents the idea of Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW), a hierarchical global system of 12 realms, 62 provinces, and 232 ecoregions. MEOW offers a higher level of organization of marine life and is a critical planning and pattern analysis tool for conservation organizations like WWF.

The April 2007 Newsletter includes:

• A study by Xinping Ye on giant pands in China;
• Highlight of Eduardo Ditt's work to impact policies to conserve the Atlantic Forest;
• A look at the EFN Mexico Alumni Groups;
• An article by Mwita M. Mangora on mangrove conservation efforts in Tanzania;
• A story by Ramon M. Docto on his work in the Philippines; and
• Grantee updates from the field.

This brochure describes the Bering Sea and Kamchatka Peninsula as an extremely diverse environment that is home to more than half of the United States’ caught seafood and one-third of Russia’s seafood harvest, among other species. It also explains WWF’s continued work in the region over the last 18 years.

For nearly a quarter century, Bristol Bay has been off limits to oil and gas development. But protection has been peeled away with the lifting of the Congressional moratorium in 2004 and Presidential Withdrawals in January, 2007.

This fact sheet summarizes the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the conservation organization, communities, natural resource management, as well as what can be done to reduce those impacts.

Human migration poses huge challenges to conserving the Earth’s rich biodiversity, yet conservationists are often unsure about what steps, if any, they can take to reduce its negative impacts. Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund US undertook this review to explore the scope of negative impacts and possible interventions.

This document summarizes the findings and lessons from a review, undertaken by WWF, geared toward strengthening WWF’s partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities.

A contribution to the implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas 

A WWF report presented on the occasion of CoP8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Curitiba, Brazil, 20–31 March 2006

The international ivory trade remains one of the world’s most controversial wildlife trade issues. In recent decades, public attention has focused primarily on trade in ivory derived from the African Elephant Loxodonta africana.