Whales, penguins and krill feeling the heat in Antarctica
A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) highlights that human-caused warming is destroying sea ice habitat in the Antarctic, threatening the...
21 October 2019
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WWF welcomes proposal to ban single-use plastic bags in NSW
“Banning plastic bags is an effective and simple way to reduce the amount of plastic entering our oceans and the places we love. Every other state in Australia...
17 October 2019
Indigenous rangers key to cane toad battle
Indigenous rangers are key to a radical plan to stop cane toads wiping out native species in Western Australia’s Kimberley region – one of the last...
14 October 2019
WWF plastics scorecard: NSW & Victoria “not fantastic on plastic”
Australia’s two most populous states – New South Wales and Victoria – are at the bottom of Australia’s first single-use plastics scorecard, with South...
9 October 2019
Australia hosts 1st chance to respond to alarming UN report on oceans & cryosphere
Australia will host the first opportunity to respond to the UN’s alarming new report on climate change impacts on oceans and the cryosphere - the earth's snow...
25 September 2019
WWF welcomes passing of Reef regs
WWF-Australia welcomed today’s passing of laws through the Queensland Parliament that strengthen protection for the Great Barrier Reef by regulating minimum...
19 September 2019
WWF and ConsenSys launch Blockchain platform to accelerate closing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals funding gap
WWF's award-winning innovation program, Panda Labs, announced alongside ConsenSys the launch of Impactio, a platform which enables funding for projects at...
19 September 2019
WWF: regs critical to Reef’s survival
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia said regulations to reduce polluted run-off, being debated in the Queensland Parliament today, were crucial to turn...
17 September 2019
Impact Tech Venture OpenSC Raises $4 Million in Seed Funding
The venture, co-founded by WWF-Australia and BCG Digital Ventures, will use the funds to further develop its technology platform for driving sustainable and...
17 September 2019
Women rangers protecting country and culture
More than fifty Indigenous trail-blazing women have gathered together on country this week in a show of strength and unity for a women’s ranger movement that...
17 September 2019
Combination of shade & irrigation could produce more male turtles
A combination of shade and irrigation could be a way to cool sea turtle nests enough to produce more male hatchlings, according to research conducted on Milman...
7 September 2019
Official outlook for the Great Barrier Reef downgraded to “very poor”
The official outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has gone from “poor” to “very poor”.
30 August 2019