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WWF Urges Japanese To Stop Eating Endangered Bluefin Tuna
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Posted August 10th, 2010 at 12:00 am

Japanese people, who consume most of the Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna catch, should avoid eating the species until its harvest becomes sustainable, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Monday.Japan consumes three-quarters of all bluefin, mainly raw as sushi and sashimi, but experts agree that decades of overfishing have seen its stocks crash by more than two-thirds in the Mediterranean."We want to make a call to Japanese traders, retailers and consumers," said Susana Sainz-T...

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WWF Apologizes For Incident Against Saudi Arabia
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Posted July 30th, 2010 at 12:05 am

The environmental group WWF has apologized for an incident at a recent climate conference involving an employee who vandalized Saudi Arabia's nameplate.The WWF employee at a U.N. conference in June in the German city of Bonn broke the Saudi's conference nameplate into two pieces, threw it in a toilet, took photographs of it and distributed the pictures.WWF said Wednesday it has "apologized unreservedly" to Saudi Arabia and the UN climate group, the UNFCCC, and that the unidentified employee ...

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Amorous Slug, Orange Snake Among Finds On Borneo
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Posted April 25th, 2010 at 12:08 am

A lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world.A report by the global conservation group WWF on the discoveries also calls for protecting the threatened species and equatorial rain forest on Borneo, the South China Sea island that is the world's third-largest and is shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei."The challenge is to ensure that these preci...

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Now Dog’s To Keep An Eye On Poachers
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Posted February 25th, 2010 at 12:05 am

In a bid to curb hunting of declining wild cats, forest officials are now mulling to use the services of dogs to keep a watch on the poachers.Four dogs are being trained here to keep a watch on the poachers in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand. "We are training four dogs - all German Shepard's - for the forest departments of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, to check poaching of animals, especially tigers," Madhya Pradesh Special Armed Force (SAF) 23nd Battalion's Dog Tra...

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Now, A Fashion Week To Support The Cause Of Tiger
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Posted February 10th, 2010 at 12:00 am

A fashion week in Kolkata has come to the rescue of the dwindling population of tigers in theWith a theme of eco-fashion, the five-day 'Kolkata Fashion and Lifestyle Week' (KFLW), beginning February 24, is in support of the 'Save our Tigers' campaign launched by WWF India."This is a fashion week with a cause. We will try and create awareness to save the wildlife, especially the tigers. With fewer tigers left in India, now it is high time we became aware of this issue and do our bit to protect th...

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Mekong Tiger Population At ‘Crisis Point’: WWF
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Posted January 27th, 2010 at 12:09 am

Governments must act decisively to prevent the extinction of tigers in Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region, where numbers have plunged more than 70 percent in 12 years, the WWF said Tuesday.The wild tiger population across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam has dropped from an estimated 1,200 in 1998 -- the last Year of the Tiger -- to around 350 today, according to the conservation group.The report was released ahead of a landmark three-day conference on tiger conservation w...

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WWF Fears For Siberian Tiger After Russian Oil Leak
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Posted January 24th, 2010 at 12:05 am

A leak from Russia's new Siberian oil pipeline shows the potentially damaging consequences the project could have for the endangered Siberian tiger, an environmental campaign group warned on Friday.Around 300 cubic metres (10,600 cubic feet) of oil leaked from the pipeline in eastern Siberia, Igor Dyomin, spokesman for Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft told AFP.The leak covered an area 10 metres (yards) across and two kilometres (1.2 miles) long, he said. "The major accident on the ...

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Battle To Save Tigers 3,200 Only Left
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Posted January 11th, 2010 at 12:07 am

Conservationists say there are just 3,200 tigers left in the world as the future of the species is threatened by poachers, destruction of their habitat and climate change.The world population of tigers has fallen by 95 per cent in the past century. The WWF said it intends to intensify pressure to save the Panthera tigris by classifying it as the most at risk on its roster of 10 critically endangered animals.It hopes to increase patrols and work with politicians to eradicate poaching and thwa...

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WWF Urges Japanese To Stop Eating Endangered Bluefin Tuna