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Five marine turtles - four green and one hawksbill - in Kenya’s Kiunga Marine National Reserve have been tagged with satellite tracking devices in an attempt to learn more about their ecology. To improve current turtle conservation efforts WWF-Eastern Africa has started a turtle satellite tracking programme which will provide information on feeding, behaviour [...]

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American firm JohnsonDiversey, one of the world’s largest providers of commercial cleaning products and services, has joined the WWF Climate Savers programme. The announcement was made by WWF-US, who said that JohnsonDiversey had pledged to significantly reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions from their operations. The company announced it will invest US$19 million over the [...]

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The discovery of dozens of massacred narwhals on the east coast of Greenland has widened divisions between hunting and tourism interests. Narwhals are a small Arctic whale with a single long tusk, sought after by poachers because of its ivory. A scientific expedition from New Zealand discovered the whale carcasses as they sailed along [...]

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Foreign poaching of Philippine marine life has flared up as an issue again following the discovery of more than 100 dead Hawksbill turtles aboard a Vietnamese fishing vessel apprehended near Malampaya. The fishing boat’s 13-man crew flooded their vessel as a Filipino gunboat approached them near the country’s main gas field, around 80km off [...]

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Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia. The 2008 WWF-Australia Power Generators Carbon Future Score Card assessed 19 of Australia’s power firms on the work they are doing to reduce their carbon emissions and around half were awarded [...]

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