Copernicus estimates that long-term global warming has reached about 1.4°C above the 1850–1900 average. At the current pace, ...

The Global Risks Report 2026 counts extreme weather events and pollution among the greatest perceived short-term threats, while five environmental concerns dominate the top 10 long-term risks, ...

GLAND, Switzerland (6 January 2026): WWF International is pleased to announce the appointment of the politician and diplomat Prof. Amb. Judi Wakhungu and the business leader Denise Koopmans to its ...

BEIJING (February 28, 2015) -- The worldwide population of wild giant pandas increased by 268 over the last decade according to a new survey conducted by the government of China. The increase in ...

Alarming new data by the Global Forest Watch shows record-breaking tropical forest loss in 2024. It's time to speed up action to safeguard our forests. The latest Global Forest Watch data tells a grim ...

WHERE DID THE IDEA OF THE INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMISSION COME FROM AND WHY? Whaling as an industry began around the 11th Century when the Basques started hunting and trading the products from the ...

Today, WWF France, in partnership with the French multinational AXA insurance, launched a new report, Into the Wild: integrating nature into investment strategies. Jointly presenting the report to ...

The world is off track to protect and restore forests by 2030, according to the new Forest Pathways 2023 report from WWF and the Forest Declaration Assessment. WWF’s report comes just two years on ...

More than 145 million tonnes of sugar (sucrose) is produced per year in about 120 countries; open pan (artisanal) sugar production in Asia probably adds more than ten million tonnes to this total.

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is a historic agreement committing nations to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. The agreement, which was adopted in Montreal on 19 December 2022, ...

We know that plastic is devastating wildlife and plaguing our oceans, but until now we have known very little about the impact the broken plastic system is having on people. In this first-ever global ...

There is evidence that approximately 17% of the Amazon forests have been lost and an additional 17% are degraded. Continuing to lose this biome would affect the livelihoods of around 47 million people ...