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  WWF - Job opportunities with WWF
WWF, the global conservation organization, is seeking a highly skilled professional for its Programme Office in Antananarivo.
WWF International is seeking two Media Relations Officers — one French-speaking and one English-speaking — for its External and Media Relations department, based in Gland, Switzerland.
WWF, the global conservation organization, is seeking a Manager, Species reporting to the Director, Species at WWF International in Gland, Switzerland.
www.panda.org /about_wwf/jobs   (362 words)

  
  Tragic loss in Nepal crash -- WWF-Australia
Gland, Switzerland - WWF, the global conservation organization, said today it was deeply saddened at the loss of life in Saturday's helicopter crash in the mountainous far-east of Nepal.
Seven WWF staff from its offices in Nepal, the UK and the US, were on board, as well as high-ranking government officials, representatives of other agencies, journalists and Russian crew members.
Launched in 1998, it is designed to conserve globally threatened wildlife species such as the snow leopard and red panda while supporting the local communities through health services, informal education and income-generating activities.
wwf.org.au /news/tragic-loss-in-nepal-crash   (423 words)

  
  WWF
Note: After losing a court case in 2002 on the use of the initials WWF, the organization previously known as the World Wrestling Federation has rebranded itself as World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE.
WWF - The Conservation Organization was formerly known as World Wildlife Fund and Worldwide Fund for Nature.
Probably the most famous name associated with the WWF is HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/w/ww/wwf.html   (281 words)

  
  Talk:World Wide Fund for Nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surprise, surprise that a conservation organisation should support an effort to reduce the pollution which is choking the planet.
WWF (conservation organization) → World Wildlife Fund - Correct name of the organization, also follows tradition like the articles on WWE and NFL.
Obviously, WWF has precision problems and the longer forms are also commonly used; therefore, it makes sense to move this to one of the longer forms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:WWF_(conservation_organization)   (1111 words)

  
 WWF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WWF - The Conservation Organization was formerly known as World Wildlife Fund and Worldwide Fund for Nature.
Probably the most famous name associated with the WWF is HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
WWF is in favour of allowing the hunting of non-endangered species, and has advocated increased animal testing of substances which may be environmentally hazardous.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /WWF   (354 words)

  
 CDNN :: WWF Issues Marine Conservation Warning
WWF is particularly concerned that the world's fisheries are being depleted due to uncontrolled fishing capacity, particularly from developed countries.
WWF also wants to see recommendations put forward in Paris that encourage governments to establish representative networks of marine protected areas, including on the high-seas, where there is no regulation at present.
WWF is calling for nothing short of a global vision -- one that ensures that exploitation does not exceed the seas' natural limits and takes urgent steps to safeguard areas of biological and economic importance for the future," Dr. Cripps added.
www.cdnn.info /eco/e011206/e011206.html   (524 words)

  
 IEMA - Environmental degradation aggravated by loss of traditional knowledge, WWF says
Gland, Switzerland - A new report and a unique map released today by WWF, the conservation organization, show that the world's most biodiverse areas are inhabited by high concentrations of native cultures, and warn that the loss of traditional languages and knowledge may lead to further environmental degradation.
Since the ecological knowledge accumulated by indigenous people in their long history of managing the environment is embodied in languages, language extinction is leading to loss of ecological knowledge, especially since in most traditional cultures this knowledge is only passed on to other groups or new generations orally.
WWF produced the map and the report in collaboration with the international non-governemental organization Terralingua.
www.iema.net /news/envnews?aid=2453   (491 words)

  
 World Wildlife Fund 
WWF is recommending that coastal developments are in the future not built within a safety zone from the high-tide mark, and coastal-use planning and policies, including natural disaster risk assessments, are carried out.
The global conservation organization warns that if devastated communities are not adequately resourced to regain immediate access to fishing, there is a real risk that opportunistic fishing fleets will move into the region, and further compound their current plight.
WWF is sending an open letter to key participants at the UN conference, offering assistance and support for a green reconstruction for all nations affected by the tsunami.
www.commondreams.org /news2005/0110-01.htm   (707 words)

  
 NOVELL CUSTOMER SHOWCASE: WWF United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WWF needed to standardize its messaging platform and give its staff a way to access information regardless of their location.
WWF selected GroupWise 6 as the company's global messaging and collaboration platform to enable seamless communication and timely access to applications for its workforce of 3,000 employees across 25 offices.
ZENworks has enabled WWF to provide employees, both new and existing, with all the applications they need to do their jobs quickly and efficiently, and has significantly reduced network management time and costs.
www.novell.com /success/wwf_uk.html   (793 words)

  
 ENN: Environmental News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Her announcement comes as the organization shapes a new long-term strategic plan to build on conservation and institutional successes achieved under Fuller's nearly 16-year tenure at the helm.
WWF's work spans the spectrum from articulating science-based conservation visions and engaging communities on the ground to shaping government and private sector policies to benefit conservation of the natural world.
Among WWF's recent conservation milestones is the development of The Global 200, a scientific blueprint for saving the most important reservoirs of the Earth's biodiversity, now used widely by decision makers around the world.
www.enn.com /aff_PF.html?id=344   (521 words)

  
 WWF - Artículos / Noticias / Agua Dulce / Nueva herramienta financiera de WWF revoluciona el manejo de ...
Another partner in the Alliance, WWF, the global conservation organization, is using WRI’s analysis to identify agricultural areas in the region that need to reduce pesticide use and soil erosion, and is setting up collaboration agreements with farmers and agricultural businesses to help them implement management practices that reduce impacts on the reef.
WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the largest and most experienced independent conservation organizations in the world.
WWF was funded in 1961 and is known by it´s Panda logo.
www.wwfca.org /php/news/diciembre2006/diciembre3_eng.php   (920 words)

  
 WWF Finland: Three Decades to Save Nature with People | WWF Suomi
WWF has trained about 250 people to be group leaders for the troops, so that they can convey orders from the authorities to the volunteers.
WWF organizes seminars, exhibitions and press conferences in order to promote awareness about the threats of climate change as well as possible solutions to the problem.
WWF Finland also encourages people to participate in Panda Passport Actions, which are worldwide web based campaigns against destructive environmental practices and for sustainable solutions.
www.wwf.fi /english/finland/history   (1363 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kathryn S. Fuller   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WWF - The Conservation Organization was formerly known as World Wildlife Fund and Worldwide Fund for Nature.
She had various responsibilies within World Wildlife Fund and The Conservation Foundation from 1982 to 1989, including executive vice president, general counsel and director of WWF's public policy and wildlife trade monitoring programs.
Kathryn Fuller: WWF of course is a nature conservation organization and so we do not do population work directly.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kathryn-S.-Fuller   (508 words)

  
 WWF :: Organizations : RSS Directory : Gourt
WWF Indochina Programme - Provides information for the WWF organization in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam with activities focused on forest landscapes, fresh water system, coastal and marine ecosystems and endangered species.
WWF Conservation Action Network - WWF provides information to take action on environmental issues by communicating with the president, members of Congress, and other decision makers.
WWF US - Learn more about endangered species, the places where they live, threats to their survival, and how WWF is helping to save them.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsociety.gourt.com%2FIssues%2FEnvironment%2FOrganizations%2FWWF.html   (1321 words)

  
 WWF - WWF - who we are and how we came about
Established in 1961, WWF operates in more than 100 countries working for a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
We are currently funding around 2,000 conservation projects and employ almost 4,000 people across the planet.
The organization is almost unique in that it has that local presence to global presence - talking to tribes of Baka pygmies in the central African rainforests, through to face-to-face discussions with institutions such as the World Bank and the European Commission.
www.panda.org /about_wwf/who_we_are/index.cfm   (345 words)

  
 WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature,WWWF Fund for Nature Conservation,World Wide Fund for Nature Conservation
WWF was officially founded on 11 September 1961 amid fears that habitat destruction and hunting would soon bring about the extinction of much of Africa's wildlife.
WWF has grown from modest beginnings into a truly global conservation organisation that has been instrumental in making the environment a matter of world concern.
In addition to funding and managing countless conservation projects throughout the world, WWF continues to lobby governments and policy-makers, conduct research, influence education systems, and work with business and industry to address global threats to the planet by seeking long-term solutions.
www.indiantiger.org /wildlife-organizations/wwf-world-wide-fund-for-nature.html   (335 words)

  
 NE Atlantic map   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WWF, the conservation organization, has drawn up a list of 200 ecoregions - the Global 200 - that have been identified as being critical to the world's biodiversity.
WWF's Arctic Programme promotes Ecoregion Conservation (ERC) in the Barents Sea in order to safeguard the unique ecosystems near and north of the polar circle.
The WWF North-East Atlantic Programme implements Ecoregion Conservation (ERC) on the North-East Atlantic Shelf: as a priority, WWF supports the further development of an Ecosystem Approach to the management of human activities in the North Sea including spatial planning of human sea uses in the light of marine conservation needs; the protection status of
www.ngo.grida.no /wwfneap/map.htm   (213 words)

  
 ADB and WWF Sign Cooperation Agreement - ADB.org   (Site not responding. Last check: )
WWF and ADB believe that it is the world's poor who are most immediately dependent on the environment for their livelihoods.
WWF is one of the world's largest and most experienced, independent conservation organizations, with almost 5 million supporters and a global network active in more than 90 countries.
WWF is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
www.adb.org /Documents/News/2001/nr2001111.asp   (545 words)

  
 Marine Conservation, Marine Life Cconservation Organization, Conservation Of Marine Wildlife
Costa Cruises is supporting WWF Italy to help safeguard some of the most precious and endangered marine ecoregions on the planet: the Mediterranean Sea, the region of the Greater Antilles and the North-East Coast of Brazil.
Thanks to the partnership between Costa Cruises and WWF Italy, today these areas of the world have something else in common: the commitment and enthusiasm from the many people who together would like to give the sea a sustainable future, and promote conservation of marine life.
WWF, who is a worldwide marine life conservation organization, works in over 40 countries to protect the sea: creating and managing protected marine areas, striving to prevent the excessive exploitation of the sea, and promoting sustainable fishing.
www.costacruise.com /B2C/EU/Corporate/wwf/default.htm   (586 words)

  
 GOVERNMENTS RECOGNIZE STUNNING SCALE OF CLIMATE IMPACTS
WWF, the conservation organization believes that they must now take the logical next step and respond by urgently finalizing the Kyoto Protocol and adopting tougher measures to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas.
Over a hundred governments represented on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded their meeting in Geneva by accepting a report which states that climate change is already having a "widespread and coherent impact" on the planet, and that it is occurring in all environments and on all continents.
WWF believes that governments must use the G8 Environment Ministers meeting in 2 weeks time in Trieste, Italy to show that they have taken on board the results of the IPCC's work.
www.ecomall.com /greenshopping/wwfclimate7.htm   (750 words)

  
 Toxic Trade News
As the paint industry now guarantees efficient TBT-free alternatives, WWF wants the IMO to adhere to the proposed dates in the Convention and ban all applications of organotin-based anti-fouling systems by January 2003, and the presence of organotins in anti-fouling coatings by January 2008.
Last year, WWF launched a new project in Bremen, Germany, to test the efficiency of non-toxic paints on 19 different large vessels.
Dr Claude Martin, Director General of WWF International, will announce this voluntary initiative, under which members will make a commitment to ensure their entire fleet will be organotin-free by 31 December 2002, at a reception at the IMO this week.
www.ban.org /ban_news/wwf_calls.html   (626 words)

  
 02/15/01 -- Giant Panda not yet out of the woods, says WWF
WWF, the first international conservation organization to begin fieldwork in China in 1980, has supported a variety of activities over the past 21 years including participation in the first Giant Panda census and preparation with the government of a Giant Panda management plan.
WWF believes that urgent action is required to identify and support creation of panda corridors to link isolated panda populations.
George B Schaller, Wildlife Conservation Society, is author of the Foreword to Giant Pandas in the Wild.
forests.org /archive/asia/gipanoty.htm   (887 words)

  
 WWF::References
WWF, the global conservation organization, and the HSBC Group, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations, have today announced their co-operation in a new wetlands project in southern China.
WWF will also enhance public awareness of wetland conservation by building new education facilities, running environmental education programmes and producing education materials for the local communities.
WWF has been working in Hong Kong since 1981 to ensure a better environment for the present and future generations in Hong Kong through implementation of a wide range of focused conservation and environmental education programmes in Hong Kong and Southern China.
www.wwf.org.hk /eng/pressreleases/20061125.php   (895 words)

  
 WWF South Pacific Programme | Welcome to the Solomon Islands
WWF SI focuses the majority of its work on preserving the marine environment so that it is able to continue to provide resources for subsistence and economic development.
WWF also works with local communities and organizations, such as the Tetepare Descendants’ Association to support the conservation of marine turtles and support capacity building of community members in monitoring, tagging and data collection.
WWF congratulated the Governments of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands for their commitment to a tri-national partnership focused on conserving the western Pacific leatherback turtle within the Bismarck-Solomon Seas Ecoregion.
www.wwfpacific.org.fj /where_we_work/solomons/index.cfm   (1282 words)

  
 WWF Danmark - Presseservice 2002
WWF, the conservation organization, welcomed the fact that the proponent African countries withdrew their proposed annual quotas of ivory and made other modifications which the organization had strongly lobbied on.
WWF Verdensnaturfonden har i dag sendt et åbent brev til fødevareminister Mariann Fischer Boel i anledning af det ministerrådsmøde der afholdes i Luxemborg i dag den 11.
WWF, the conservation organization, is calling on the G-77 group to apply their experiences from current floods and lead the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) efforts to consider the importance of restoring floodplains to lessen the risk of such recurring disasters and to set global targets for sustainable river management.
www.wwf.dk /33b000c   (2292 words)

  
 News
WWF representatives from Switzerland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, US, China and Russia met on May 22 with the head of Khasansky area of Primorsky region to discuss our new project aimed at saving the leopard.
WWF called on the EBRD to listen to the public and decline funding the project.
College and school students of Evreyskaya autonomous region contributed to WWF campaign "Cedar is tree of life": on May 17 "Berkut" environmental team and members of "Nature and People" environmental club planted 750 cedars with the help of the strict nature reserve Bastak.
www.wwf.ru /resources/news/eng/tab99/page19   (525 words)

  
 WWF Danmark - CITES : From mahogany to marine species, WWF hails conservation successes in Santiago
WWF also argues that, with the listing of whale and basking sharks (both votes were dramatically overturned in the final plenary session), as well as seahorses on Appendix II, CITES has at long-last recognized the need for the Convention to include commercially exploited marine fish on its appendices.
Furthermore, WWF is pleased that proposals to set annual quotas of ivory trade were withdrawn by the proponent African countries.
Nonetheless, WWF is aware that, along with potential benefits to local communities and elephant conservation in southern Africa, the decision to allow a one-off trade also carries some risk.
www.wwf.dk /2572774   (554 words)

  
 Icelandic Nature Conservation Association
Geneva, Switzerland - WWF, the conservation organization, today called on Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminium producer, to live up to its own environmental standards and pull out of a project that would destroy Dimmugljúfur Canyon, one of Iceland's great wilderness areas.
WWF is calling on Alcoa, which has 129,000 employees worldwide and last year generated revenues of USD 22.9 billion, to live up to its environmental principles and back out of its joint plan with the Icelandic Government.
WWF is supporting calls by Icelandic NGOs for the Eastern Highlands to be declared a national park.
www.inca.is /newspageiv.asp?ID=15   (605 words)

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