41. WWF - 50 years of Achievements
of rampant, uncontrolled hunting – one of the most well-known and visible ‘faces’ of bad environmental governance. WWF had been working for a moratorium on commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission (IWC)
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42. WWF - Amazon mammals
wild.
While commercial hunting and trapping of jaguars for their pelts has declined drastically since the mid-1970's through public information campaigns and trade controls, the species is still a victim of ranchers, who kill it because it
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43. WWF - Japanese black bear conservation
Shikoku. But habitat loss, hunting and road accidents have drastically reduced their numbers over the years. One population in Kyushu is already extinct and another in Shikoku is critically endangered with less than 20 remaining bears.
Without
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44. WWF - New hope for survival for elusive saola
by illegal hunting with snares and dogs for its horns, the current population of saola is thought be to a few hundred at maximum and possibly only a few dozen at a minimum. None have survived in captivity.
Since the species
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45. WWF - Snow leopard
gradually declining, with hunting and habitat loss just some of the reasons that it is endangered.
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46. WWF - Conservation: the new Chinese philosophy
provokes a violent reaction. Hunting goes on despite a ban, so that by 1997 the number of Siberian tigers in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces was down to just 10.
The Chinese government has paid considerable attention to wildlife protection.
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?1864/Conservation-the-new-Chinese-philosophy - 49.4kb
47. WWF - Conservation news & stories
Happy hunting grounds
It may seem odd for conservationists to encourage the hunting of wild animals, but in the Northern ...
11 February 1999
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48. WWF - New hope for survival for elusive saola
by illegal hunting with snares and dogs for its horns, the current population of saola is thought be to a few hundred at maximum and possibly only a few dozen at a minimum. None have survived in captivity.
Since the species
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/laos/news/?200029/New-hope-for-survival-for-elusive-saola - 51.0kb
49. WWF - Japanese black bear conservation
Shikoku. But habitat loss, hunting and road accidents have drastically reduced their numbers over the years. One population in Kyushu is already extinct and another in Shikoku is critically endangered with less than 20 remaining bears.
Without
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50. WWF - From Estonia to Poland – one of Europe’s largest predato...
mainly threatened by hunting and habitat loss, in the Polish red Book of Animals in 1995.
‘The lynx’s survival is at stake in Poland. With the transfer of animals from Estonia, we hope to repopulate the forests and prevent
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/poland/news/?197275/From-Estonia-to-Poland--one-of-Europes-largest-predators-relocated-for-survival - 50.6kb
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