161. WWF - Lessons of history
in our bodies and those of wildlife.
PCBs, as a persistent and bioaccumlative chemical, is stored in body fat, so its concentration increases as it rises up the food chain. Huge quantities have escaped into the environment, where it continues
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162. WWF - Integrated Coastal Area and Marine Biodiversity Management - Phase II
the country.
The parks and wildlife biodiversity and, marine and coastal biodiversity are mainly sheltered in protected areas and their associated marine and coastal niches.
The current protected area system established under the
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163. WWF - WWF captures extraordinary video of rare Borneo rhino
and Malaysia’s Sabah Wildlife Department announced today.
The 2 minute video — showing the animal eating, walking to the camera and sniffing the equipment — is the first-ever footage of observing the behaviour in the wild
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164. WWF - Outrage as protected forests go under the hammer in Russia
forest plots, covering four wildlife refuges and five Korean pine nut harvesting zones.
The auction, which for unknown reasons was held two days before the scheduled date, ignored new regulations on three regional and one federal wildlife
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165. WWF - Re-opening of tiger trade in China spells disaster, says WWF and TRAFFIC
and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. WWF and TRAFFIC believe that the re-opening of the trade of captive bred tigers for traditional medicine from so-called “tiger farms†for sales in China’s
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166. WWF - Illegal bear bile trade rampant in Asia
a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has found.
Bear bile products were found on sale in Traditional Medicine outlets in all but one of the 13 countries/territories surveyed says the report entitled Pills, Powders,
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167. WWF - Year of the Tiger ends with roadmap to save species
tiger habitat
A new wildlife conservation bill was passed in Malaysia, providing significantly higher penalties and mandatory jail time for wildlife crime, with poaching of tigers and trading in their parts now receiving maximum punishment
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168. WWF - Stopping poaching
action against the illegal wildlife trade, to helping local communities benefit from living alongside endangered species through wildlife tourism.
The story so far
Rhinos
With our partners, we’ve helped to step up efforts
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169. WWF - Conservation and environmental news: Greater Mekong
Educating Vietnam's youth on wildlife trade
As part of an awareness-raising campaign to address unsustainable wildlife consumption, WWF and ...
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