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Thousands of pieces of colorful plastic float in the ocean

Ending plastic pollution

We spoke with WWF activists from across the US who are advocating for practical solutions to the plastic pollution crisis about what motivates them to build a world with no plastics in nature.

Forest restoration can protect against disease
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.
The dos and don'ts of owning exotic pets
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Scroll through social media, and you’re bound to spot an “exotic pet,” an animal companion that isn’t a farm animal or a domesticated dog or cat.
Katie Zdilla on championing long-term conservation
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
I spent much of my childhood making my mother nervous. Every weekend, she’d drive me to our local nature center, where I’d climb trees and rocks, wade in the creek, and dream of adventure.
How conservation in Dzanga-Sangha supports people
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Park and WWF-supported NGOs provide employment, education, health care, and human rights assistance to local people—many of them Indigenous—which contribute to regional security.
Filmmaker Richie Mehta on combining entertainment and conservation
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Richie Mehta is the creative mind behind Poacher, a new eight-part series about crime-fighting conservationists who took on India’s biggest elephant poaching ring between 2015 and 2017.
Discovering a barn swallow's beauty
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Barn swallows might seem like ordinary birds at first glance, but one well-timed photo can reveal their grace, beauty, and mastery of the sky.
President’s Letter: The Truth About Plastic
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
The truth is that plastic waste is choking our planet. It’s polluting the air, water, and soil that people and wildlife depend on.
Gallery: Photographs by Marco Gaiotti
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Marco Gaiotti discovered his passion for nature photography gradually, over years of travel to remote places.
Apple's Lisa Jackson on corporate sustainability
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Here are four truths that drive Lisa’s work.
National Council member Ticora Jones on collaborating for conservation
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
The Colorado Rockies were outside my window as I was growing up. That proximity to something so magical gave me an early, deep appreciation for the wonder of nature.
How wildlife contribute to the health of an ecosystem
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
When the fur trade wiped out North America’s sea otters in the early 20th century, sea urchins—a favorite otter food—exploded in number.
In Viet Nam, helping locals grow a responsible timber industry
WWF Magazine: Summer 2025
Mai Thi Huyen, an employee at the Nguyen Phong factory in the Annamite Mountains, slides a board of acacia wood through an industrial ripsaw.
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.
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.
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.
Land, Home, Village, Self
WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
The interwoven effort to save reefs, corals, and a modern but traditional way of life
Living with Giants
WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
Capturing the complex, often uneasy coexistence between humans and elephants in southwest Zambia
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.
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.
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.
Essay: The goslings in lockdown
WWF Magazine: Spring 2025
The world was on lockdown, but the local pond didn’t get the memo.
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.
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.
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.

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