January 2026 began with water everywhere. Across southern Africa, Europe and parts of North Africa, rivers burst their banks.

Stilted homes in Andavoanemboka village, Madagascar, where female solar technicians have brought solar-powered light. © Bella Roscher / WWF-CH. In the stilted homes of Madagascar ...

By Gregg Yan Locusts of the sea, they come by the thousands – and leave behind a watery graveyard of coral skeletons. An enormous wave of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) is ...

mid-1970s A number of pandas in the northern part of their range are thought to be starving after a mass flowering and subsequent die-off of bamboo, as happens periodically 1974-1977 Ministry of ...

Biodiversity is most simply defined as the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat. Human livelihoods, and even industrial production, are also dependent on what are ...

In this third edition of ‘Committed to Sustainable Palm Oil?’, WWF and ZSL (Zoological Society of London) analysed Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP) reports submitted by growers, processors and ...

Just weeks after a WWF report identified at least 52 new species of animals and plants over the past year on Borneo, scientists have discovered that the clouded leopard found on the island, as well as ...

Findings highlight the scale of the illegal trade, particularly in South East Asia Over recent years, the national and international illegal trade in marine turtles and their derivatives has been ...

The world is off track to protect and restore forests by 2030, according to the new Forest Pathways 2023 report from WWF and the Forest Declaration Assessment. WWF’s report comes just two years on ...

The temptation to skip to steps lower in the hierarchy that are easier or cheaper will at best provide a temporary bandaid to these complex global challenges and at worst, cannibalize efforts for ...

WWF researchers may have discovered a new, mysterious carnivore species in the dense, central forests of Borneo. The animal, a mammal slightly larger than a domestic cat with dark red fur and a long, ...

Beijing, China - WWF, in cooperation with the research organization GlobeScan, has conducted the largest consumer survey about the elephant ivory trade in China – 2,000 people in 15 cities – for four ...