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  • With support from Global Forest Watch, World Wildlife Fund-US (WWF) developed the Jurisdictional Risk Assessment to explore potential applications of public data platforms to help companies, governments, and other end-users assess certain jurisdictions and their potential association with illegal deforestation. This tool can help companies and governments prioritize and strengthen their traceability and due diligence efforts. Using palm oil and Indonesia as a pilot commodity and geography, WWF developed indicators to assess potential risk to forested ecosystems and their management in Indonesia by district. The sets of indicators represent: 1) primary forests, 2) peat lands, 3) protected areas, and 4) the forest estate (specifically, production forests and limited production forests). Depending on the ecosystem or managed area type, historical rates of deforestation, fire occurrence, and incompatible zoning of land uses (particularly by oil palm concessions) were selected as ways of evaluating risk. We used datasets from Global Forest Watch and associated websites, augmented by additional external sources. Download the PDF for more details on the JRA’s methodology.

  • One of the biggest priorities for WWF‚'s wildlife team is to secure time-bound commitments and implementation of elephant ivory bans from three of the largest consumer markets and scale up consumer outreach efforts to reduce desire for elephant ivory. Reducing consumer demand for elephant ivory and mobilizing public support for policy change and enforcement are essential to combating illegal elephant ivory trade.

    In an effort to tackle the challenge of "desire reduction" of consumers, WWF commissioned a guide, Reducing Desire for Elephant Ivory: A Psychosocial Guide to Address Elephant Ivory Consumption that presents a new lens through which to view conservation campaigns and their audiences taking on complex dimensions (psychological, cultural, social, and emotional) of elephant ivory consumption.

    The purpose of the guide is to support efforts that directly address the active market for these goods and to build upon campaign strategies and amplify their effectiveness. In 2017 we would like to pilot this guide with our demand reduction work and with partners.

    Watch: An innovative approach to reducing consumption of illegal products

  • Answers to important questions in regard to the 2016 Plowprint Report, such as: What is the methodology behind the report? Why was it developed? And, What is WWF doing to slow grassland loss?

     

  • Companies are increasingly setting and pursing ‘water balance targets’ as part of their water stewardship strategies. The seeming simplicity of balance goals can be attractive – “we will restore a volume of water equal to the amount our business consumes.” However, the implementation is anything but simple, requiring the development of new quantification methodologies, corporate system guidelines and parameters, and verification and reporting processes. This paper explores the history, challenges and opportunities of water balance targets, and how important it is for such goals to be grounded in the realities of each unique watershed.

  • With massive infrastructure plans threatening all tiger landscapes and risking recent gains in tiger conservation, Asian governments must adopt a sustainable approach to infrastructure planning and construction or drive tigers toward extinction, according to a new analysis by WWF.

     

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  • The current elephant poaching crisis costs African countries around $25 million annually in lost tourism revenue, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. Comparing this lost revenue with the cost of halting declines in elephant populations due to poaching, the study determines that investment in elephant conservation is economically favorable across the majority of African elephants‚' range.

  • This edition of the Asia High Mountains (AHM) newsletter summarizes project-related activities celebrating Snow Leopard Day. Included as a feature is the release of the first snow leopard population count in Bhutan.

  • The Living Planet Report, produced every two years by WWF, is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. By providing an overview of the state of the natural world, human impacts and potential solutions, it aims to support governments, communities, businesses and organizations to make informed decisions on using and protecting the planet‚'s resources.

  • An overview of WWF Asia High Mountains Project snow leopard research, community conservation, climate adaptation, and livelihood work at project sites in Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, and Pakistan. Also includes a brief overview of WWF support for the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP) Program. (18 page Brochure)