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Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In February 2012, poachers on horseback entered into Cameroon’s Bouba N’Djida National Park and killed at least 300 elephants, according to a CNN report. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), poachers entered into Dzanga-Ndoki National Park and into an area known as the “village of elephants” this week. Eye witness reports claim the poachers were shooting in the direction of the elephants, but it is...
Seafood Leader Commits Portion of Sales Proceeds to Support WWF Global Fisheries and Marine Conservation Efforts BRUSSELS, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading North America seafood company, Bumble Bee Foods, today announced the introduction of Wild Selections(®) - a new high-quality branded line of products certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Wild Selections(®) will support World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) efforts to protect...
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of California San Diego and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will launch in August a new international certificate program in Advanced Terrestrial Carbon Accounting. Application and scholarship information can be found at http://extension.ucsd.edu/TCA. The deadline for applicants outside of the United States that require a visa is April 15. American applicants have until June 15 to apply. This unique program will train...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Amur leopard, one of the rarest big cats still in existence, will have a cross-border reserve set up in its favor, in order to protect the few remaining animals still in existence. Russia, which has been in talks with China since at least 2009, set up its own leopard habitat in early 2012 to try and bring the animal back from the brink of extinction. This year, the two Asian countries will set up a habitat that will span the...
MONTREAL, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) today issued its 2012 Annual Report, which includes an overview of the Company's 2012 sustainability performance. While Resolute will continue to produce its Annual Sustainability Report using Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines, the Company is now also integrating sustainability performance information into its annual financial disclosure. "Resolute recognizes that focusing on...
Participation Builds on Commitment to Sustainable Forest Management MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- International Paper has joined the Global Forest & Trade Network in North America (GFTN), one of World Wildlife Fund (WWF)'s initiatives focused on eliminating illegal logging and promoting environmentally and socially responsible forest management. International Paper joins a network of more than 200 companies and communities around the globe committed to the...
Real estate servicing giant has participated in Earth Hour for the past seven years. Singapore (PRWEB) March 21, 2013 Office buildings managed by Jones Lang LaSalle and LaSalle Investment Management across Asia Pacific will go dark for an hour Saturday evening in observance of Earth Hour, the annual campaign led by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to encourage commitment to action on climate change. At 8:30 p.m. local time, Jones Lang LaSalle and LaSalle Investment Management offices across...
?To Support This Year's "I Will If You Will" Campaign, Pocoyo & His Friends Will Help Clean Up Over Two Tons of Trash from the Ocean Through a New Charity Partnership with Ocean Defenders Alliance - A Mission Blue Collaboration MADRID, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Earth Hour today announced that Pocoyo would serve a third term as Earth Hour's Global Kids' Ambassador, spearheading the initiative to reach kids through a new partnership with the...
NEW YORK, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced a $2 million grant to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society in support of the Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages (HEAL) initiative. This grant will support two of HEAL's five core modules enabling the Wildlife Conservation Society and its partners to conduct work in Southeast Asia and Madagascar that examines the relationships between conserved ecosystems and several...
To mark the annual World Wetlands Day, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance has designated its largest site ever in the South American country of Bolivia. The 17 million acre Llanos de Moxos wetland is critical to the overall health of the amazon, says World Wildlife Fund (WWF.) Trinidad, Bolivia (PRWEB) February 02, 2013 Located near the borders of Peru and Brazil in the southwestern corner of the Amazon basin, the Llanos de Moxos is made up of tropical savannas...
