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WWF and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Maritime Crime Program have launched a new partnership to advance innovative knowledge-sharing to protect the waters around Ecuador.

Here are five ways that WWF helped to fight the climate crisis in 2022.

A 44,000-acre conservation easement will protect four of the world's most important rivers for salmon habitat.

In a big win for biodiversity, countries struck a global agreement to halt and reverse nature loss during negotiations in Montreal.

Countries are currently meeting in Montreal to negotiate a new global framework for protecting nature under the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international agreement to protect biodiversity. We’re calling on leaders to commit to an ambitious agreement—one that halts and reverses nature loss by 2030 while conserving 30% of lands, oceans, and freshwater ecosystems globally, known as 30 by 30.

For years, communities, individuals, and organizations have pulled together to restore the Atlantic Forest. Known as the Trinational Atlantic Forest Pact, their urgent and vital work is now officially declared by the United Nations as one of the 10 World Restoration Flagship Initiatives.

Though the world faces two existential crises—a rapidly warming planet and declining biodiversity—and continues to battle a global pandemic, conservation still made major strides toward protecting wildlife, wild places, and people in 2022.

Leclercq (she/they pronouns) is a grassroots organizer, educator, scholar, and artist whose primary focus is the realm of environmental justice. They are the co-founder of the Colorado River Conservancy and the environmental justice education non-profit Start:Empowerment.

School cafeterias in the United States hand out 275 million half-pint cartons of milk to students each day. But this distribution method leads to a huge amount of waste - up to 45 million gallons of milk are wasted each year. A new initiative is helping schools switch from milk cartons to a bulk milk dispenser. A small shift that shows big results.

In a major win for tigers, the US Senate passed legislation that will help prevent captive tigers from ending up in the illegal trade of their parts and products—a primary threat to big cats in the wild. The Big Cat Public Safety Act now goes to President Biden to sign.

This year’s conference concluded with several positives for wildlife with new and renewed global protections against poaching, illegal, and unsustainable trade in wild animals and plants that could help reverse trends driving the loss of global biodiversity.

Combatting climate change helps save wildlife populations around the globe, but the reverse is also true: Wildlife conservation plays an essential role in regulating our climate. By saving wildlife, we help save the planet, including ourselves.

All international climate talks begin with high hopes, and this meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference—known as COP27—in particular was being held up as the moment for implementation and climate justice. Instead, it appears that COP27 will be remembered as the COP of unmet expectations.

Snares, rudimentary traps that people have set by the millions on forest floors and snowy mountain pathways across Asia, are barely visible to the eye and a fatal danger to all wildlife.

Right now, the burden falls on individuals to sort household waste for recycling and on communities to fund and operate recycling programs. Under a new program, this responsibility is transferred to the companies that use these materials for their products and packaging.

Water overuse, infrastructure, changes in the amount of rainfall, increased temperatures, and the climate crisis are decreasing the amount of water that has historically flowed consistently in the Rio Grande.

WWF wants to create healthy oceans that benefit the planet, people, prosperity, and peace. Advancing peace through ocean conservation is the focus of our newest program, Oceans Futures.

New WWF report details Amazon’s global impact and vital strategies for its conservation

Ambitions and promises need to translate into action. At this COP, we must set the stage to begin the real work and challenges around decarbonization.

Farmers Post uses the US Postal Service to make same-day or next-day delivery of orders of fresh-picked vegetables. The program can help eliminate food waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Settle in for a playlist that's a bit frightening. But ultimately, the world would be a lot scarier without any wildlife.

Nearly 1.8 million acres of grasslands were destroyed across the US and Canadian Great Plains in 2020 alone, according to WWF’s seventh-annual Plowprint Report. Each year, the report analyzes plow-up that occurred two years prior to the report's release.

A historical decision by Alaska Native landowners, in conjunction with a landmark proposal by the EPA, could finally rip plans for a ruinous mine up from the roots and stop the project for good.