Stories

About 35% of harvested fish and seafood is either lost or wasted along the supply chain. So where does this loss happen and what can you do to help?

Mexico announces water reserves that will guarantee water supplies for the next 50 years for 45 million people, as well as some of the country’s most biodiverse ecosystems and globally important wetland protected areas.

Travel and tourism is one of the largest industries in the world. Here are tips to making traveling abroad more sustainable.

This month marks one year since the United States confirmed it was pulling out of the Paris Agreement. But across the country, national leaders and citizens continue to drive climate action and ensure the nation fulfills its emissions targets set by the accord. 

Results from a new survey show mountain gorilla numbers are growing in the Virunga Massif. The critically endangered animals were once expected to be extinct by the end of the twentieth century, but there is hope the population will continue to grow due to conservation efforts.

The tiny Bolivian town of Versalles, nestled along the Iténez River, is home to one of the largest river turtle hatcheries in the Amazon. Community efforts have helped to increase turtle numbers, but the species remains vulnerable to threats far beyond the community’s control.

Results from the largest ever research study of gorillas and chimpanzees in Western Equatorial Africa show population numbers higher than first believed, but their future still remains in peril.

Following decades of seemingly irreversible decline, the Irrawaddy river dolphin population in the Mekong region is rebounding.

It’s one of the easiest things you can do to help save the world’s forests. Look for the label that says FSC® when you buy paper towels, tissues, furniture or any other products that come from forests.

The word chaco stems from the Quechua word chaku, meaning "hunting land"—a testament to the Gran Chaco's wildlife, which supported indigenous peoples long before European settlers arrived.

Have any idea where your most recent can came from? Here's one common route—and how WWF is working to make it sustainable.

James Ray Arnold of Portland, Oregon, is putting the finishing touches on a single-family home in Hood River, Oregon, that is the first in the country fully certified by FSC.

The Land of the Leopard National Park is the core area for the Amur leopard. New images documented 84 adult cats and 19 cubs inside the park. This is a significant increase since a 2000 census recorded just 30 cats, and a 2015 survey numbered only 70.

 

While residents of Sikkim honor the endangered red panda, they also understand the species is under a growing threat. Climate change is impacting species across the globe and red pandas—with less than 10,000 left in the wild—are not immune.

When I first started working in conservation, the funding focus was on forests.