Think about the rainforest
Forest Conservation Programme
EU countries add to illegal logging trade
Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, is still rampant globally and European Union countries are guilty of compounding the problem according to a new WWF report. Read more
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Ministers commit to zero net deforestation by 2020
Ministers from 67 countries have signed on to WWF's call for zero net deforestation by 2020. The ministers showed their commitment to stop forest loss to safeguard biodiversity, global climate and people's well-being at a WWF event held during the 9th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP9) in Bonn. For the full list of signatories and more, click here...
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Latest news
07 Aug 2008
Saving Sumatra’s Endangered Peoples
The Orang Rimba people have inhabited the jungles of Sumatra for centuries, traveling in tight-knit family groups in the Indonesian forests, hunting, fishing and collecting non-timber forest products on their traditional lands. Members of this indigenous tribe occasionally trade goods with villages on the edge of the forest, but prefer to keep to themselves. Now, as Sumatra’s forests disappear under the relentless onslaught of chainsaws and bulldozers, even keeping to themselves is becoming impossible.
Saving Sumatra’s Endangered Peoples
The Orang Rimba people have inhabited the jungles of Sumatra for centuries, traveling in tight-knit family groups in the Indonesian forests, hunting, fishing and collecting non-timber forest products on their traditional lands. Members of this indigenous tribe occasionally trade goods with villages on the edge of the forest, but prefer to keep to themselves. Now, as Sumatra’s forests disappear under the relentless onslaught of chainsaws and bulldozers, even keeping to themselves is becoming impossible.
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In focus
Forest Brochure
A one stop information source on the WWF global forest programme: Forests For Life
WWF Green Carbon Guidebook
Information on a meta-standard framework to guide forest-carbon project developers and investors.
A one stop information source on the WWF global forest programme: Forests For Life
WWF Green Carbon Guidebook
Information on a meta-standard framework to guide forest-carbon project developers and investors.
