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A new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report details the impact and potential of Food Waste Warriors, a free program available for teachers and administrators to help students understand the importance of food and how to avoid wasting it. Since 2019, more than 1,000 schools have adopted Food Waste Warriors curricula, resulting in food waste reductions of up to 70% per school. Food Waste Warriors is launching a national ambition to end wasted food in K-12 schools within a generation. Accomplishing this requires three principal activities: engaging students through annual cafeteria…

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The government of Yucatán and a broad coalition of partners, including WWF, celebrated a new initiative to permanently conserve and strengthen the management of more than 1.4 million acres of protected areas and enable sustainable community livelihoods through a new initiative called Herencia Maya. In a land famous for its cenotes—enormous underwater springs—Herencia Maya secures quality freshwater sources for more than a million inhabitants of Yucatán and countless wildlife. It also conserves more than 170 miles of Yucatán’s northern coast, including critical mangrove areas. The initiative will bring economic and…

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New framework helps assess when commercial use can deliver environmental and economic benefits Invasive species, introduced accidentally or purposefully outside their original range, can wreak havoc in their new environments, contributing to 60% of global wildlife extinctions and costing $423 billion per year. A new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) explores how, when eradication is not possible, developing commercial uses for these pests can help manage their populations and provide environmental and economic benefits to local communities. It presents a first-of-its-kind framework to help businesses and ecologists evaluate the…

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