Stories

  • Setting a New Standard: Groundbreaking Move Aims to Safeguard Crew Welfare and Promote Sustainability in Tuna Fisheries

    In a historic decision, The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)—one of five global tuna regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) responsible for conserving and sustainably using highly migratory fish stocks, particularly tuna, in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean—has adopted the first-ever Conservation and Management Measure on Crew Labour Standards within a tuna RFMO. This groundbreaking measure ensures enhanced protection for the welfare, safety, and rights of crew members working across the WCPFC-managed fisheries, setting a significant global precedent for labor rights in the fishing industry.

  • Meet HoneyRose Smith, WWF’s first Environmental Journalism Scholarship winner

    January 29, 2025

    HoneyRose Smith, a second-year journalism major from Oakland, Calif., was selected as the winner of an essay writing competition. She will receive a $10,000 scholarship and a year-long mentorship with WWF’s Communications and People & Culture teams to help launch her career.

    HoneyRose Smith stands on a beach and looks to the camera
  • Where do bees go in the winter?

    January 27, 2025

    Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do vanish from our view, a significant number of temperate species survive these harsh months by harnessing some truly radical behavior.

    A worker bumble bee climbs the roots of an alpine plant to warm her body
  • Using DNA to protect sea turtles

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    Illegal trade poses an enormous threat to sea turtles, which are trafficked for their meat, eggs, shells, and other parts. And stopping it isn’t easy.
    Four sea turtles swim around a coral reef in the Galapagos
  • Meet the slow loris, a cute primate with a toxic bite

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    Slow lorises are a study in contradictions. With wide eyes and furry bodies, these slow-moving, pint-sized primates look like cuddly stuffed animals.
    A closeup of a slow loris surrounded by green leaves
  • Why policy should recognize the benefits of wildlife

    January 23, 2025

    Wildlife provides vital benefits to people in innumerable ways, from pollinating plants so we have food to eat to dispersing seeds so forests can help regulate our climate. However, new WWF-led research shows that these important contributions are vastly underrepresented across science and policy discussions.

    A sea otter floats on its back among kelp in the ocean
  • Champions of the Great Sea Reef

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    The Great Sea Reef that hugs Fiji’s northwestern shores is a biodiversity hotspot and deeply important to the country and its people.
    Map of Fiji and Great Reef
  • Land, Home, Village, Self

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    The interwoven effort to save reefs, corals, and a modern but traditional way of life
    Closeup of hands weaving dry grass mats
  • Living with Giants

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    Capturing the complex, often uneasy coexistence between humans and elephants in southwest Zambia
    Elephants walking between buildings at night
  • Tracking the movement of spotted hyenas

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    SH2 is “the gold medalist of all hyenas,” says Lise Hanssen, director of Namibia’s Kwando Carnivore Project.
    A hyena captured on camera at night
  • President's Letter: Oceans Rising

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    Gain some distance and you’ll see how much oceans define the dominant color of Earth.
    Carter Roberts
  • In Costa Rica, thousands of tree frogs look for love

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    In the summer of 2018, I traveled to Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula to study the gliding tree frog.
    Green frogs clinging to blades of grass with many eggs attached
  • Essay: The goslings in lockdown

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    The world was on lockdown, but the local pond didn’t get the memo.
    A watercolor illustration of goslings following adult Canada geese
  • A historic partnership restores buffalo to Native lands

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    The slaughter of millions of American bison is one of the great tragedies in US history.
    A buffalo with a herd under colorful skies
  • Shellie Collier on building infrastructure to support wildlife

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    Shellie Collier is passionate about wildlife conservation and has been intimately involved in the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.
    A highway wildlife crossing under construction
  • Gallery: Sculptures by Abigail Brown

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    The materials in Abigail Brown’s whimsical sculptures often originate in nature—pieces of driftwood, fallen branches, or stones she gathers because they remind her of a specific animal.
    Artwork of a blue wolf head
  • The world’s largest sharks have a haven near Tanzania

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    With its cartilaginous body and cold blood, the whale shark is decidedly not a whale.
    View of a whale shark from above with small yellow fish
  • Indigenous efforts help restore Guatemala's Totonicapán Forest

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    Since 2021, WWF’s Russell E. Train Education for Nature (EFN) Program has sponsored EcoLogic Development Fund, a nonprofit that supports Indigenous efforts to restore the forest.
    Women planting seeds in ground
  • Breathtaking beauty in Botswana

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
    As we drive through Botswana’s Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, I’m nervous but exhilarated by the proximity of the wildlife.
    The sun sets over trees, a jeep in the foreground
  • Water scarcity: 8 facts you need to know

    January 16, 2025

    More and more, people are experiencing the climate crisis through water. Water cycle patterns are disrupted meaning rainfall or snowmelt arrives either too early or too late or with too big or too little amounts—causing droughts or floods and impacting people and nature everywhere. Discover the key things to know about water scarcity and what WWF is doing to help.

    Overhead photo of Rio Grande
  • Is climate change increasing the risk of disasters?

    January 14, 2025

    From deadly wildfires in Texas to devastating floods in North Carolina, disasters have wreaked havoc across the US in 2024, set to be the world’s hottest year on record. As the climate crisis intensifies, there is no question that the intensity and frequency of extreme weather—often resulting in disasters—is increasing.

    A street that's broken floods during a storm
  • Healing community relationships with crocodiles

    January 13, 2025

    Marisa Tellez has devoted her life to crocodiles, first as a biologist and now as the Executive Director of the Crocodile Research Coalition, a nonprofit she founded to support the conservation of crocodiles and their habitats. Crocodiles keep aquatic ecosystems in balance as apex predators, but they also hold a cultural significance in Central America. 

    A woman holds a pole in front of a crocodile
  • Builder beavers: How an oversized rodent engineers climate resilient landscapes

    January 06, 2025

    For millions of years, beavers have engineered small ponds in which they can build their home. Carefully arranging sticks and packing the spaces with mud, grass, and rocks, beavers create a dam that slows the flow of moving water. Because of their boastful building skills, beavers have earned the title of “ecosystem engineers” and are recognized as keystone species.

    A closeup of a beaver with his front paws covering his eyes