Media Releases

IQALUIT, Nov. 21, 2018 –  Recent surveys show the Bathurst and Bluenose East herds in Canada’s North declined by 50 per cent since the last survey conducted in 2015, affirming the need for urgent action to protect barren-ground caribou. This study highlights a disturbing trend across the Canadian Arctic...

About WWF WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the World’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF has a global network active in over 100 countries with almost 5 million supporters.  WWF-Canada connects the power of a strong global network to on-the-ground conservation efforts across the...

TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2018 – Global wildlife populations have declined by 60 per cent on average in just over 40 years, according to World Wildlife Fund’s new global Living Planet Report. The report, released today, presents a sobering picture of the harmful human impacts on wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers...

Canada has an opportunity to ensure the long-term survival of barren-ground caribou in 2019   OTTAWA, Oct. 30, 2018 – Canada is home to one of the world’s great wildlife spectacles – the migration of hundreds of thousands of caribou across thousands of kilometres of barren lands. Unless actions are taken now, Canada will fail...

TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2018 – On Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. ET, WWF will release The Living Planet Report 2018, a comprehensive overview of the state of our natural world, focusing on wildlife and ecosystems, and the threats they face.    Media availability: World Wildlife Fund Canada experts will...

About WWF WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the World’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF has a global network active in over 100 countries with almost 5 million supporters. WWF-Canada connects the power of a strong global network to on-the-ground conservation efforts across the...

About WWF  WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the World’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF has a global network active in over 100 countries with almost 5 million supporters. WWF-Canada connects the power of a strong global network to on-the-ground conservation efforts across the...

About WWF  WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the World’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF has a global network active in over 100 countries with almost 5 million supporters.  WWF-Canada connects the power of a strong global network to on-the-ground conservation efforts across the...

OTTAWA, Oct. 16, 2018 — World Wildlife Fund Canada is keen to see the recommendations in this final report today from the National Advisory Panel on Marine Protected Area Standards pass into law, bringing Canada’s marine protected areas in line with international standards to better protect wildlife from human...

About WWF WWF, the global conservation organization, is one of the World’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF has a global network active in over 100 countries with almost 5 million supporters.   WWF-Canada connects the power of a strong global network to on-the-ground conservation efforts across...

TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2018 – World Wildlife Fund Canada welcomes the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development’s report highlighting shortcomings on the protection of marine mammals. The audit findings further point to the failure of the federal government to implement the urgent and mandatory actions that the Species at...

KATHMANDU, Sept. 23, 2018 — Nepal is poised to become the first country to double its wild tiger population. The government of Nepal announced today there are now an estimated 235 wild tigers, nearly doubling the baseline of around 121 tigers in 2009.   The Canadian connection Funding for the population...