Media Releases

Where: WWF-Canada’s Toronto Office (245 Eglinton Ave. East, Toronto) When: Starting immediately with a minimum 6 month commitment Shifts: One four hour weekday shift per week (see below for specifics) Responsibilities: Administer out-bound tax receipts, acknowledgment letters, welcome kits and information packages to our donors Provide quality control on...

Where: WWF-Canada’s Toronto Office (245 Eglinton Ave. East, Toronto) When: Starting immediately with a minimum 6 month commitment Shifts: One four hour weekday shift per week (see below for specifics) Responsibilities: Assist the Database Manager with the maintenance of our database Raiser’s Edge Preform clean-up, updates and merging of duplicate donor...

Where: WWF-Canada’s Toronto Office (245 Eglinton Ave. East, Toronto) When: Starting immediately with a minimum 6 month commitment Shifts: One four hour weekday shift per week (see below for specifics) Responsibilities: Greet visitors to WWF-Canada’s office in a friendly, courteous manner and efficiently handle their requests Provide prompt, professional...

(Halifax – September 23, 2011) This week’s annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada saw the adoption of an interim plan tabled by Canada for cod recovery on the Grand Banks. This plan, promoted by WWF, is an important step towards recovery...

As the annual meeting of NAFO is about to begin on September 19th in Halifax, Nova Scotia, WWF cautions fisheries managers that they shouldn’t consider rushing to reopen the cod fishery that has been under moratorium since 1994. They must first finalize the promising interim cod conservation plan and...

(OTTAWA – September 15, 2011) — The extent of Arctic sea ice has hit the lowest levels since monitoring began, according to an analysis by the University of Bremen. This record of 4.24 million square kilometers could be pushed even further. There is a close link between Arctic August...

In fact, WWF analysis of National Energy Board (NEB) commissioned research indicates a clean-up would not be possible 44 to 84 per cent of the short Arctic drilling season. For the remaining seven or eight months of the year, during the ice-covered winter, no spill cleanup would be possible....

Wildlife office in Inuvik - Northern News Services

 There were 209 import and export seizures in Vancouver last year, more than double the number in Toronto, the country’s second-most notorious animal parts smuggling entry point. Vancouver’s port and the city’s large Asian community make it the gateway for illegal imports from Asia. “We know it’s an ongoing...

(Toronto and Vancouver – August 17, 2011) Where are some of Canada’s cleanest and dirtiest shorelines? The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, today released a list of its most and least littered shorelines across Canada, based on results from the 2010 cleanup. The list shows...

(Toronto – August 9, 2011) WWF welcomes today’s announcement by Premier Dalton McGuinty of funding for electric vehicle charging stations. This is one of a suite of measures taken by the provincial government to promote the use of electric vehicles, along with other initiatives like a rebate available on...