http://www.worldwildlife.org/ The latest elephant news from WWF. Fri, 06 JUN 2008 17:00:00 EDT en-us http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2012/WWFPresitem27441.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2012/WWFPresitem27441.html Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST The following statement was issued today by Natasha Kofoworola Quist, WWF’s Central Africa Regional Programme Office Representative: http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2012/WWFPresitem27442.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2012/WWFPresitem27442.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 EST World Wildlife Fund (WWF) experts will discuss the recent slaughter of hundreds of wild elephants in Cameroon and the need for President Paul Biya to protect the remaining elephants and bring the killers to justice during a telephone press briefing on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 9 a.m. EST. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2011/WWFPresitem24097.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2011/WWFPresitem24097.html Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST A new U.S. postage stamp featuring a tiger cub that went on sale today is a first of its kind stamp that will allow purchasers to support international wildlife conservation. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2011/WWFPresitem19288.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2011/WWFPresitem19288.html Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST Law enforcement officials in Gabon have arrested five men accused of possessing illegal animal products, including those of endangered species.  http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem10997.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem10997.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST A border guard in Myanmar takes bribes to smuggle elephants into Thailand so he can travel to World Cup soccer matches, according to an undercover investigation by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The report found that so many live elephants have been smuggled to support “elephant trekking” tourism in Thailand that some parts of the Myanmar appear to have lost their elephant populations. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem9131.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem9131.html Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EST The Democratic Republic of the Congo will establish 13 to 15 million hectares of new protected areas, the country announced yesterday at the UN Environmental Summit in Bonn, Germany. These proposed protected areas make up an area of rainforests roughly the size of Greece.  WWF applauds this commitment as a step towards creating an important and expansive network for the preservation of tropical rainforests. With this commitment, the Congolese government will reach its goal to protect 15 percent of the country. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem8301.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem8301.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, suggests an article co-authored by World Wildlife Fund (WWF). http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem7039.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2008/WWFPresitem7039.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST Pekanbaru, Sumatra-Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem843.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem843.html Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST WWF researchers have discovered that ten endangered wild Sumatran elephants are being kept chained to trees without enough food or water in the Riau Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in violation of an agreement the government signed in 2004 known as the Riau Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation Protocol. The elephants have been made homeless by the destruction of the forest they inhabited. Government authorities captured the elephants ten days ago after they raided crops and terrorized residents of a nearby village. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem844.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem844.html Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST WASHINGTON - World Wildlife Fund today praised a surprise decision by the government of the Malaysian state of Sabah to protect its most important remaining lowland forests on the island of Borneo. This decision will permanently preserve one of just two places in the world where the endangered orangutans, Bornean Pygmy elephants and the critically endangered Sumatran rhino co-exist and where forests are still large enough to maintain viable populations of each. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem840.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem840.html Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST Washington - World Wildlife Fund today released the results of a field survey from the island of Borneo which found that poaching has significantly reduced Borneo's population of Sumatran rhinos, but a small group continues to survive in the "Heart of Borneo," a region covered with vast tracts of rain forest. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem837.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem837.html Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST Washington - Following the apparent poisoning of a herd of endangered Sumatran elephants last week, the Indonesian Forest Protection and Nature Conservation Agency (PHKA) and World Wildlife Fund, announced plans to immediately begin implementing a protocol to reduce human-elephant conflict in central Sumatra. PHKA also called for an immediate stop to the clearing of all natural forests remaining in Riau Province, site of ongoing human-elephant conflict. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem831.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2006/WWFPresitem831.html Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST Sabah Wildlife Department and World Wildife Fund-Malaysia (Asian Rhinoceros and Elephant Action Strategy - AREAS Project) with support from SARAYA Co. Ltd. (Japan) successfully located and treated an injured Borneo Pygmy elephant at Bukit Permata, Lower Kinabatangan on Jan. 24, 2006. http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2005/WWFPresitem824.html http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2005/WWFPresitem824.html Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST Washington -- The same satellite system used by the U.S. military to track vehicle convoys in Iraq is helping World Wildlife Fund shed light on the little-known world of pygmy elephants in Borneo.