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WWF Emergency Fund for Amazon (application/pdf, 2.2 MB)
August 30, 2019WWF has formed an emergency fund to drive critical resources to the people at the front lines of the dramatic fires, specifically to local civil society organizations that represent and work with indigenous peoples and local communities to protect the Amazon.
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Below The Canopy (application/pdf, 3.35 MB)
August 13, 2019The importance of biodiversity below the forest canopy is often underappreciated, and yet it is a crucial component of healthy functioning forest ecosystems. Below the Canopy: Plotting Global Trends in Forest Wildlife Populations is the first-ever global assessment of forest-dwelling wildlife populations and highlights the multitude of threats forest-living species are facing.
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Living Planet Report 2018 (application/pdf, 14.5 MB)
October 29, 2018The Living Planet Report documents the state of the planet—including biodiversity, ecosystems, and demand for natural resources—and what it means for humans and wildlife. Published by WWF every two years, the report brings together a variety of research to provide a comprehensive view of the health of the Earth.
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Pulse of the Forest: The State of The Greater Mekong’s Forests and the Everyday People Working to Protect Them (application/pdf, 30.7 MB)
July 19, 2018Deforestation is a major threat both to ecosystems and local economies. The Greater Mekong was the world's most densely forested area in the 1970s, but has now lost a third of its tree cover. It is on course to lose another third between 2010 and 2030 if trends continue.
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Forest Degradation in the Core Zone of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve 2015-2016 (application/pdf, 726 KB)
August 23, 2016Extreme weather events are adding a new, ominous threat to the monarch butterflies’ key wintering habitat in Mexico, according to a report by the WWF-Telmex-Telcel Alliance, the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas, and the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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100% Sustainable Timber Markets: The Economic and Business Case (application/pdf, 1.92 MB)
August 10, 2016A new WWF report explains the business and economic case for sourcing timber that is from responsibly managed forests. The report explains how committing to 100 percent responsibly managed timber would help the global economy, as well as the economy of the United Kingdom more specifically.
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Conserving Forests to Combat Climate Change (application/pdf, 10.7 MB)
July 21, 2016The Paris Agreement, signed by nations around the world in December 2015, is a comprehensive approach to combat climate change. The agreement includes a framework—known as REDD+--for reducing deforestation and forest degradation and increasing carbon storage in forests. In this publication, learn about REDD+ so you can take action to implement and support REDD+ initiatives.
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Living Amazon Report 2016 (application/pdf, 13.5 MB)
June 13, 2016WWF Living Amazon Report 2016 alerts to a dramatic increase in the frequency of enacted legislative actions to downgrade, downsize or degazette protected areas in the Amazon.
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Will Asia Pulp & Paper default on its "zero deforestation" commitment? (application/pdf, 3.65 MB)
April 20, 2016A new study by twelve international and Indonesian NGOs, including WWF, shows that in spite of its high-profile commitment to “zero deforestation”, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is building one of the world’s largest pulp mills in the Indonesian province of South Sumatra without a sustainable wood supply.
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Eyes on the Forest: No One is Safe (application/pdf, 11.4 MB)
April 13, 2016The palm oil industry has caused dramatic deforestation in Indonesia. This report, based on an Eyes on the Forest investigation, demonstrates how tainted crude palm oil entered the supply chains of several of the most well-known palm oil suppliers in the world, including subsidiaries of the Sinar Mas group and Wilmar that operate in Indonesia.
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Profitability and Sustainability in Responsible Forestry (application/pdf, 5.81 MB)
August 05, 2015This study seeks to advance knowledge about the impact of FSC certification on a company's "bottom line" through primary research on 11 forestry entities operating across four continents. More than 500 original data points are analysed to assess upfront investments, annual costs, annual benefits, and the overall net present value (NPV) of the decision to pursue FSC certification.
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Living Forests Report Chapter 5: Saving Forests at Risk (application/pdf, 15.1 MB)
April 27, 2015This report identifies 11 regions that will account for more than 80 percent of projected deforestation between 2010 and 2030. If nothing is done, we could lost up to 656,000 square miles of forests (an area more than twice the size of Texas). The report brings together the latest data and expert opinion to identify the regions and the likely causes of deforestation in each place.
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Responsible Alternative Fibers: Assessment Methodology (application/pdf, 5.04 MB)
April 17, 2015Pulp is the base for a lot of products we use every day, such as napkins and paper. Pulp typically comes from natural fibers that are in trees. But purpose-grown and agricultural residue feedstocks – such as bamboo, kenaf and wheat straw—are being explored as alternatives to such fibers.
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Better Forests. Better Business. (application/pdf, 5.4 MB)
November 04, 2014The future of the world’s forests depends greatly on the actions of US companies. They have tremendous purchasing power to support responsible forestry and trade globally, as well as to eliminate the market for unsustainable and illegal wood. Read this publication to learn more about how WWF and US companies are collaborating to save the world’s forests.
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Tigers of the Transboundary Terai Arc Landscape (application/pdf, 5.97 MB)
September 30, 2014This publication is an outcome of the bilateral understanding between India and Neapl on transboundary illegal trade in wildlife conservation.
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Social Impacts of the Forest Stewardship Council Certification: An Assessment In the Congo Basin (application/pdf, 594 KB)
April 07, 2014The study, the first of its kind, conducted by CIFOR and jointly funded by WWF and CIFOR, utilizes a robust methodology to compare nine FSC certified and nine noncertified forest management units across Gabon, Cameroon and Republic of Congo, to assess whether certification yields social benefits above and beyond noncertified FMUs. Overall, the study firmly and consistently confirms that FSC certification has indeed yielded additional social benefit in the Congo Basin.
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SVLK Flawed: An Independent Evaluation of Indonesia's Timber Legality Certification System (application/pdf, 6.79 MB)
March 14, 2014Indonesia is one of the major exporters of timber products in the world. It is also one of the key countries with serious illegal logging and deforestation issues. Indonesia developed a timber legality certification system to address this problem. This 2014 report includes an assessment of that system and all of the certificates that had been issued under it at the time of the study.
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Natural Resource Trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (application/pdf, 308 KB)
February 01, 2014Among Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries, renewable resources and wildlife are highly traded. Where resources are poorly managed, demand in TPP markets drives depletion and illegal activities. In these cases, the economic benefits of trade are loast and cheaper products undermine profits and threaten jobs in countries where resources are legitimately harvested and well-managed.
Conservation provisions are needed in the TPP to protect the world's natural resources, including the seafood and wood products needed for global businesses and consumers for generations to come.
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Illegal Logging in the Russian Far East: Global Demand and Taiga Destruction (application/x, 2.03 MB)
April 16, 2013Synthesizing over 10 years of on-the-ground field observations into an eye-opening report, WWF's Illegal Logging in the Russian Far East: Global Demand and Taiga Destruction highlights a sobering reality: Russia’s forest sector has become deeply criminalized, with poor law enforcement, allowing illegal loggers to plunder valuable timber stocks of oak, ash, elm, and linden with impunity.
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Don't Flush Tiger Forests (application/pdf, 9.58 MB)
February 08, 2012The lush rain forests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra suffer from what may be the world’s fastest deforestation rate, threatening the survival of species and causing massive carbon emissions. WWF found that two brands sold in the United States—Paseo and Livi—are made with paper from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), which is responsible for more forest destruction in Sumatra than any other single company.
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