The partnership supports the aims of the Forest Stewardship Council in Canada and is intended to demonstrate Tembec’s leadership in forest stewardship. OUR VISION… The WWF-Tembec Partnership is based upon the following: Tembec and... Read More

The study by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring program of World Wildlife Fund and IUCN-The World Conservation Union, was compiled from responses to a detailed set of survey questions submitted to wildlife management agencies... Read More

The report Polar Bears at Risk reviews the threats faced by the world’s 22,000 polar bears and highlights that climate change is the number one long-term threat to the survival of the world’s largest... Read More

“Canadian Premiers and Cabinet Ministers should not use U.S. inaction as an excuse for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. Although the Bush Administration has abandoned leadership on climate change, states, cities and companies are... Read More

“It would have been unthinkable for Japan to have turned its back on such a vitally important international treaty bearing the name of Japan’s former capital city.” said Jennifer Morgan, Director of WWF’s Climate... Read More

“This bill paves the way for establishing a network of Marine Conservation Areas (MCAs)” said Joshua Laughren, WWF-Canada’s Director of Marine Conservation. “Now the real job is for Parks Canada to put this legislation... Read More

The five-day meeting will focus on implementation matters. The treaty targets 12 of the most highly persistent and toxic chemicals ever produced and becomes legally binding when 50 nations ratify. In May 2001 Canada... Read More

In a new report, The Timber Footprint of the G8 and China, WWF reveals that the G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, USA, and the UK) and China import two thirds of... Read More

WWF’s Living Planet Report 2002 shows that humans are currently running a huge deficit with the Earth – using over 20 percent more natural resources each year than can be regenerated – and this... Read More

“I would see that the Protected Areas Strategy is one of our major priorities, simply because it is also the territorial governments’ and First Nations’ priorities,” said Mr. Nault. “Last time I was in... Read More

“The Earth Summit was a turning point in two respects for our marine heritage,” said Josh Laughren, Director of Marine Conservation for WWF-Canada. “First, earlier last week, Canada signed on to an international fisheries... Read More

In the most recent case, a Bahamian registered ship was charged with dumping off the coast of Newfoundland earlier this month, leaving behind a 116 km long slick in an important seabird habitat that... Read More