Information Centre of General Animal Protection (beta)

141. WWF - Problems caused by current market actions

generations. Farming animals for meat and dairy Farm animals take up 70% of all agricultural land, and over 40% of the worldâ€™s grain harvest is fed to livestock. Farming animals for meat and dairy requires huge inputs of land

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142. WWF - A spectacular spectacled bear story

ending in the death of the animal,â€ stated Luis Carlos Rosero, from FundaciÃ³n Wii, an organization working with spectacled bear conservation in Colombia. â€œWe believe itâ€™s necessary to take immediate action to ensure that the

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143. WWF - Mechanized agriculture

Most important protein in animal feed. Soy oil is the most consumed vegetable oil in the world. Soy (Glycine max) provides more than one-fourth of the worldâ€™s vegetable oil. In its meal form, it is the preferred food for

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144. WWF - WWF-Armenia Team

Siranush Galstyan, MSc Conservation Programme Manager © WWF-Armenia Conservation Programme

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145. WWF - Global climate deal in reach with Cancun outcome

Just cut out Animal Agriculture and the planet will cool down really fast - methane from livestock is 72 times hotter over a 20 year peiod than Co2, and nitrous oxide from Animal waste is about 300 times more potent than all the

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146. WWF - Southwestern Australia Forests and Scrub

give rise to rare plant and animal communities. More than 5,500 species of plants have adapted to the Southwestern Australia Forests and Scrub ecoregion, with nearly 70 percent being endemic. Local Species Characteristic tree species

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147. WWF - RÃo Negro-JuruÃ¡ Moist Forests

conversion, colonisation, animal and plant collecting, large-scale cattle ranching and road construction pose significant threats. Large quantities of ornamental fish, particularly arawana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum ), are harvested for

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148. WWF - Southeast China-Hainan Moist Forests

working to protect the animal species in Indo-China by preserving habitat, fighting commercial trade and supporting eco-tourism. Read more: WWF Indochina: Exploring, discovering and protecting rare species

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149. WWF - Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck Moist Forests

forests but many plant and animal species manage to thrive. The Solomon Islands rain forests are true oceanic islands with high vertebrate endemism, including single-island endemics, restricted-range mammals, and 148 species of land and

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150. WWF - Queensland Tropical Forests

with ancient lineages) and animal species. High concentrations of endemic monotypic genera and primitive plant families reflect the refugium status of many parts of the ecoregion. Mean annual rainfall ranges from 1,200 mm to over 8,000 mm.

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