Tag: WWF

New Database Provides World’s Most Comprehensive Data on River Barriers and Reservoirs

Stuart Mitchell

There has been a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations in just 50 years (1970-2020), according to World Wildlife Fund‘s (WWF) Living Planet Report 2024. The report warns that parts of our planet are approaching dangerous tipping points driven by the combination of nature loss and climate change which pose grave threats to humanity. The Living Planet Index, provided by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), tracks almost 35,000 vertebrate populations of 5,495 species from 1970-2020. The steepest decline is in freshwater populations (85%), followed…

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New Program Could Put an End to Global Environmental Destruction for Food Production

Stuart Mitchell

Codex Planetarius and the 1% solution, kicked off recently by World Wildlife Fund’s Markets Institute, aims to rewrite the future of food production by supporting the growing demand for globally traded food while minimizing the negative environmental consequences. When fully developed and launched, Codex Planetarius will: Provide a baseline for environmental performance in global production and trade of food and soft commodities. Inform regulatory guidelines for governments and global trade that would apply to international trade agreements, eventually to be adopted by entities like the World Trade Organization. Provide much-needed…

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“We’re Eating Microplastics Every Day,” Actor Daniel Dae Kim Warns in WWF Video

Stuart Mitchell

Recently WWF released a new video that uses wry humor to demonstrate the pervasiveness of plastic pollution, especially in the food we eat, ahead of the crucial final round of negotiations for a legally-binding global plastic pollution treaty, otherwise known as INC-5.  In the video titled “Daniel’s Kitchen”, Korean-American actor Daniel Dae Kim initially seems to be teaching viewers how to make gimbap, a popular Korean dish. But as the scenes unfold, we see that the gimbap’s key ingredients, which include seaweed, rice, carrots and eggs, have been replaced with…

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New WWF global study reveals most impactful actions for each country

Stuart Mitchell

The Great Food Puzzle, a new tool and research published by WWF, helps identify the most appropriate actions on a national basis. The report highlights that food systems – the complex network of activities that involves the production, processing, transportation, and consumption of food – have major global impacts on nature and climate change, but they can only be made sustainable with local solutions. In the first global study of its kind, WWF has analyzed more than 100 countries and classified them into six different Food System Types, based on…

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Efforts to Restore Buffalo and Re-Establish Indigenous Lifeways Expands in Unprecedented Alliance Between Indigenous Leaders, Environmental Nonprofits, the U.S. Department of the Interior

Stuart Mitchell

The Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration was announced recently by the InterTribal Buffalo Council, Native Americans in Philanthropy, The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund. This new, historic alliance was created to stabilize, establish, and expand Tribal-led buffalo (bison) restoration, and foster cultural, spiritual, ecological, and economic revitalization within Native communities. Together, the groups have committed to work with the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to build on the momentum created by Indigenous leaders to bring lasting structural change and return buffalo to Tribal lands at…

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