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G8 fails on climate goals. Again.
The latest WWF-Allianz G8 Climate Scorecards shows that countries have so far failed to take sufficient action to protect the world against climate change.
$50m reward for reef heroes welcomed
WWF today said the Australian Government’s $50 million ‘downpayment’ to help farmers protect the Great Barrier Reef was a significant step towards saving the iconic Reef and the 65,000 jobs that depend on it for their survival.
Plodding whale meeting makes climate change breakthrough
Madeira, Portugal – The International Whaling Commission adopted a major climate change resolution on the last day of its 61st meeting, although it failed to take decisions on contentious whaling issues after days of negotiations that have hampered its progress in recent years.
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Sink or Swim - The Economics of Whaling Today
Whales have been hunted commercially for centuries. The IWC started out essentially as a whalers' club, with only 15 members, all of which were whaling nations. It had no provisions to detect and punish over-hunting and it paid scant attention to the sustainability of whaling. The results were disastrous for whales. Some species, such as blue and right whales, were hunted to near extinction; reduced to less than 5 per cent of their original population abundance. Yet it must be seen in the context of its time, which far pre-dated any environmental or conservation treaties, or awareness of the need to utilise wild species sustainably.
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Climate Change and Species report
Could you ever imagine a world where elephant are no longer roaming on the Africa savannah, where orang-utans are only found in captivity or where a polar bear running along ice caps can only be seen in film archives?
Such a world is more likely than you might think.
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