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WWF-Australia News

Oct 31

WWF supports Treasury modelling on climate change

WWF welcomed the release of the Department of Treasury modelling in Canberra today which shows Australia can afford to take deep and early cuts to greenhouse gas emissions.

Oct 31

The Coca-Cola System Announces New Global Targets for Water Conservation and Climate Protection in Partnership with WWF

Atlanta, October 30, 2008 - The Coca-Cola Company, in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), today announced ambitious new targets to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon emissions within its system-wide operations, while promoting sustainable agricultural practices and helping to conserve the world's most important freshwater basins.

Oct 29

Australia in top 5 for environmental exploitation

Australian's exploitation of the environment is worse then ever, with the nation now boasting the fifth largest ecological footprint per capita in the world - up from sixth worst just two years ago - according to a major international report released today.

Swarovski Panda Auctions to Raise Funds for WWF Projects

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outback NT tourism

Looking for a holiday in NT?
With the support of WWF Australia, Tourism NT has collaborated with three tour operators working out of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to develop a model which tourism operators can use to reduce their greenhouse emissions.
Find out more about the outback offsets program.

Kimberley

Rock beach at Cape Leveque, a remote coastal wilderness, 220kms north of Broome at the tip of the Dampier Peninsula © WWF / P Gamblin

The Kimberley is one of the Earth's great natural and cultural treasures. However, this magnificent region, including its coral reefs and islands, is threatened by the prospect of huge gas and mining projects. WWF is working to put conservation planning in front of development decisions to ensure a sustainable future for the region and its people. Read more about the work WWF is doing to protect this special place.

Marine protected areas for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Marine protected areas for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

The water of Antarctica are possibly the world's most harsh yet beautiful environment. In the summer months as light reaches deeper into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton and shrimp-like krill become phenomenally abundant, forming dense clouds. The foundation of the Antarctic food chain, these tiny crustaceans are feasted upon by squids, penguins, crabeater seals and baleen whales. In turn, the prey of many larger predators such as Antarctic toothfishes, leopard seals, sperm whales and killer whales depend on these small animals. Few places in the world, if any, support greater numbers of large animals.

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Continuing CCAMLR's fight against IUU fishing for Toothfish

Continuing CCAMLR's fight against IUU fishing for Toothfish

Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides and Antarctic Toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni1 are found in sub-Antarctic and cool temperate waters of southern South America and the islands and submarine plateaus of the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) has responsibility for the conservation and rational use of fisheries resources in the Southern Ocean and, together with coastal States in whose waters these species occur, manages the catch of these species.

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