Stories

My hope for the future is we look back and see the summer of 2021 as the turning point in the climate crisis—the moment when humanity took account of what we are doing and changed course.

WWF-India is in the process of fitting GPS-enabled collars on wild elephants to better understand the animals’ basic movements and help local communities.

Between 1940 and 2010, forest cover in Laos decreased by roughly 30%, putting both people and wildlife in danger. The forest-dependent communities in Laos make almost all of their livelihoods from the forest’s natural resources. Illegal logging and forest conversion for agriculture have threatened these livelihoods. To begin to build back a dwindling forest, mitigate the negative impacts of deforestation, and ensure that forest-dependent communities sustainably benefit from natural resources, forest-dependent villages, in partnership with WWF-Laos, started seedling nurseries and planting initiatives to restore their essential forests. 

A new comprehensive report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessing the latest state of global climate science reveals that global temperatures now hover around 1.1°C above preindustrial levels and our actions have already irreversibly altered the Earth.

For the people of Pahirebesi, the pattern of disaster and recovery is routine. But once this community began to implement bioengineering techniques in their surrounding landslide-prone landscape to mitigate risk, their reality shifted.

Forests cover approximately one-third of the Earth’s surface and are home to more than three-quarters of the planet's remaining biodiversity, but are declining around the world at an alarming rate. Learn about how WWF's Education for Nature program and The UPS Foundation partner to fund locally-led reforestation and restoration projects in areas with critical need.

The world’s attention has never been more focused on tigers: 2022, also known as the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Lunar calendar, is expected to be a critical juncture on the road ahead for tiger conservation.

Did you know that mangroves only cover 12% of the world’s coasts, but you can see them from space? 

WWF is launching a new project to make wildlife like tapirs less vulnerable to drought during the dry season by installing and monitoring artificial water sources in Mexico’s Calakmul Biosphere Reserve through the Wildlife Adaptation Innovation Fund.

Connecting patches of forest to ensure jaguars, their habitats, and the ecosystem services they provide are protected for the long term.

An ambitious international plan could bring declining jaguar populations back.

Four members of the Oglala Lakota Nation share stories from their lives.

Learn four facts about white tigers, and captive tigers in general, that illustrate why the promotion of “endangered” white tigers, as just one example, is a ploy of those wanting to profit from captive tigers while providing no benefit to wild tiger conservation.

While forests covered around 50% of the Earth’s land area 8,000 years ago, today only 30% of land is forested.

Carter Roberts talks with Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School, Tufts University’s graduate school for international affairs, about career goals and the importance of vulnerability.

When searching for inspiration, Catalan photographer Xavi Bou looks to the sky.

A bird with claws rivaling Freddy Krueger's.

As of June 2020, Indonesia had designated more than 7% of its marine area as MPAs, protecting some 43% of coral reefs, 25% of mangrove forests, and 37% of mapped seagrass beds.

WWF's Martha Stevenson talks about how abstraction helps her to utilize science and art in her work to advance forest conservation efforts.

In the spring of 2021, as a year of worldwide pandemic began to yield to glimmerings of hope, actress and author Jane Alexander penned this letter.

We asked 11 WWF women staff members to interview or write odes to women conservationists who inspire them.

Human-wildlife conflict is when encounters between humans and wildlife lead to negative results, such as loss of property, livelihoods, and even life. The scope of the issue is significant and truly global, but we are nowhere near being able to address it at the scale needed.

WWF and Air Wick Scented Oils® and Botanica by Air Wick® have teamed up to reseed 1 billion square feet of grassland and wildflower habitat over the next three years, restoring critical habitat.