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Marine reserves in Sir Peter Blake’s memory
Friday, 7 December 2001, 3:04 pm | World Wildlife Fund
WWF New Zealand is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Sir Peter Blake, and we add our voice to calls for a network of marine reserves to commemorate his work, his passion, and his enormous contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand. More >>
Hope For NI Hector’s Dolphins
Thursday, 16 August 2001, 2:01 pm | World Wildlife Fund
The government’s management plan for North Island Hector’s dolphins, announced today, could hardly be better, says WWF. More >>
Carcass Discovery Raises Risk Of Extinction
Thursday, 26 July 2001, 10:43 am | World Wildlife Fund
The discovery of a dead North Island Hector’s dolphin at Port of Waikato increases the urgent need for their protection, says WWF. More >>
Albatross Protection One Step Closer
Tuesday, 19 June 2001, 10:52 am | World Wildlife Fund
WWF hopes New Zealand’s signing of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) in Canberra today heralds a stronger stance on seabird protection by the government. More >>
Open Letter To Scoop's John Howard
Monday, 7 May 2001, 11:15 am | World Wildlife Fund
We at WWF were interested to read your latest Howard’s End, which we always enjoy. More >>
Ban On Set Netting Welcome News - WWF
Thursday, 12 April 2001, 10:17 am | World Wildlife Fund
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is pleased to hear of the government’s temporary ban on recreational set netting in Canterbury, to help protect the Hector’s dolphin. More >>
Hector’s Protection Needed
Wednesday, 28 March 2001, 4:25 pm | World Wildlife Fund
The discovery of a professionally filletted Hector’s dolphin carcass in Westport underlines the need for greater protection for this rare marine mammal, the Worldwide Fund for Nature stated today. More >>
American Express - First New Zealand Charity Cards
Tuesday, 27 February 2001, 10:35 am | World Wildlife Fund
Auckland, NZ. Save the Children and WWF-New Zealand launch an innovative and collaborative fundraising initiative with international credit card giant American Express today. American Express has created two new Affinity Credit Cards, one for each organisation. ... More >>
WWF Welcomes Albatross Agreement
Tuesday, 13 February 2001, 3:24 pm | World Wildlife Fund
This week, WWF welcomed the completion of a global agreement on the protection of albatross and petrels from fisheries bycatch. The agreement, developed under the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species in Germany, is the work of a number of representatives ... More >>
WWF Condemns Norway's Lifting Whale Export Ban
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 9:52 am | World Wildlife Fund
Gland, Switzerland - WWF today condemned an unexpected decision by the Norwegian Government to re-open international trade in whale products, in defiance of the long-standing global whaling moratorium and ban on whale meat trade. More >>
WWF Habitat Protection Fund
Friday, 22 December 2000, 3:24 pm | World Wildlife Fund
This week, WWF-New Zealand funded four new conservation projects through the Habitat Protection Fund. The Habitat Protection Fund is an initiative sponsored by the Tindall Foundation and managed by WWF-New Zealand. Since WWF became manager of the Fund in ... More >>
North Sea Fishing Quota To Affect Southern Oceans
Friday, 22 December 2000, 3:06 pm | World Wildlife Fund
WWF-New Zealand's Conservation Director Eric Pyle says the European Union's (EU) announcement that it will cut quotas of North Sea cod is likely to have some effect on New Zealand and the Southern Oceans. North Sea cod stocks are now at their lowest ... More >>
WWF Map Highlights Global Chemical Threat
Tuesday, 5 December 2000, 2:47 pm | World Wildlife Fund
Johannesburg, South-Africa - WWF has released a new map demonstrating the global threat and reach of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). At the same time, WWF called on governments meeting in Johannesburg for the fifth and final negotiating session ... More >>
Pilot Sightings And Strandings Network
Tuesday, 7 November 2000, 2:59 pm | World Wildlife Fund
World Wide Fund For Nature launches the pilot of its Sightings and Strandings Network today, part of a research project to help save the world’s smallest and rarest marine dolphin, the North Island Hector’s Dolphin. More >>
WWF welcomes industry’s initiative to save Dolphin
Tuesday, 19 September 2000, 8:28 am | World Wildlife Fund
Earlier this month, Northern Inshore Fisheries Company released their “Proposal for Managing the Interaction between the Set Net Fishery and North Island Hector’s Dolphin”. The report sets out a number of initiatives geared towards saving the North Island ... More >>
Kyoto Global Warming Treaty Loopholes
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 4:38 pm | World Wildlife Fund
Lyon, France – As two weeks of UN talks on climate change neared a close, proposals tabled by the United States, Japan, Australia and Canada could allow industrialized nations to significantly increase their emissions of global warming gases, according ... More >>
WWF Applauds Decision By Clinton Administration
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 4:35 pm | World Wildlife Fund
Japan's Whaling Expansion Draws Threat Of US Sanctions - WWF Applauds Decision By Clinton Administration More >>
School Turns Environmental Education Into Action
Wednesday, 13 September 2000, 2:53 pm | World Wildlife Fund
After taking part in WWF's Coast to the High Country programme, the students of New Brighton Catholic School are focusing their interest in conservation on to their closest surroundings - their school grounds. More >>
