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Exploring Smallholder Solutions in the Rubber Sector (application/pdf, 7.26 MB)
September 22, 2020HeveaConnect, Target Corporation, and World Wildlife Fund are engaged in finding solutions to enhance the production and trade of sustainable natural rubber. The three organizations came together in 2019 around the shared interest in understanding how the processing and sale of rubberwood might incentivize the adoption of sustainable practices by natural rubber smallholders and enhance their livelihoods.
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We enlisted the services of Financial Access to analyze the potential of rubberwood to serve as a mechanism to support smallholder financing in Indonesia. Low yields are one of the main issues plaguing rubber smallholders in Indonesia, who are often forced to replace rubber with other commodities to improve their livelihoods. This has consequences for Indonesia’s dominant position in the rubber sector, farmers’ livelihoods and ability to rise out of poverty, and potentially drives deforestation as new land is often cleared to meet demand.
This report investigates the viability of selling rubberwood from the perspective of all stakeholders in the supply chain. We identify a financing scheme that has the potential to ensure that a smallholder avoids a cash shortfall during or after replanting. Although the scope of the analysis was limited to two provinces in Sumatra, the findings of this study could be used there and elsewhere in Indonesia to inform the development of sustainable natural rubber initiatives that include the processing and trade of rubberwood as one of several strategies to support equity in natural rubber supply chains. -
Living Planet Report 2020 (application/pdf, 23.1 MB)
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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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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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Executive Summary: Tackling Deforestation Through a Jurisdictional Approach (application/pdf, 1.26 MB)
March 07, 2018Based on the conversations and expertise from this workshop,Tackling Deforestation Through A Jurisdictional Approach: Lessons From The Field, offers a full synthesis of lessons learned and jurisdictional case studies.
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Tackling Deforestation Through a Jurisdictional Approach (application/pdf, 4.39 MB)
March 07, 2018Based on the conversations and expertise from this workshop,Tackling Deforestation Through A Jurisdictional Approach: Lessons From The Field, offers a full synthesis of lessons learned and jurisdictional case studies.
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Peru's Natural Legacy: Securing the future of Peru's Protected Areas (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, 210 KB)
February 27, 2017Peru has a historic opportunity to secure the investments in protected areas that have been made by the government of Peru and donors over the past 20 years. The opportunity is an innovative public-private partnership—called National Parks: Peru’s Natural Legacy—that brings together government commitments, international cooperation and private donors to create a permanent source of funding to properly manage the protected areas.
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Database for Jurisdictional Risk Assessment (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet, 9.65 MB)
January 25, 2017World Wildlife Fund-US (WWF) used data made available from Global Forest Watch and other sources to develop the Jurisdictional Risk Assessment, a tool to help companies, governments, and other end-users assess certain jurisdictions and their potential association with illegal deforestation.
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Methods, Jurisdictional Risk Assessment (application/pdf, 457 KB)
January 25, 2017With 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. Download the PDF for more details on the JRA’s methodology.
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Using Public Data Platforms to Assess Deforestation Risks Within Jurisdictions (application/pdf, 3.44 MB)
January 25, 2017World Wildlife Fund-US, with support from Global Forest Watch, developed the Jurisdictional Risk Assessment to explore potential applications of public data platforms (such as Global Forest Watch) that allow companies, governments, and other end-users to assess certain jurisdictions and their potential association with illegal deforestation.
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Living Planet Report 2016 (application/pdf, 19.1 MB)
October 26, 2016The 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.
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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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Transforming Peru's forest sector (application/pdf, 23.9 MB)
May 12, 2016The majority of the timber from Peru is harvested illegally. The new National Pact for Legal Wood represents an unprecedented opportunity to address major challenges in the country’s forestry sector and to create the conditions needed to develop a domestic market for legal Peruvian wood.
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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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Brazil’s New Forest Code: A guide for decision-makers in supply chains and governments (application/pdf, 4.24 MB)
February 19, 2016Brazil is home to the Amazon and other vital ecosystems that support diverse wildlife. This report provides guidance to agribusinesses, banks, policymakers, and other stakeholders that want to better understand Brazil’s new Forest Code so that they can promote, regulate, produce, consume, export, or import Brazilian agricultural products that comply with this law designed to protect its natural resources.
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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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The Most Important Conservation Story You’ve Never Heard (application/pdf, 44.8 MB)
April 03, 2015Over the last 45 years, a small, little-known country in the distant Himalayas quietly and unassumingly became a conservation treasure. It is an incredible story few people are aware of.
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