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Paul Naylor is an marine biologist and underwater photographer, who aims to increase the understanding of what amazing wildlife lurks beneath the waves around our coastlines. His 'Sunstar in Brittlestar Bed' was Highly Commended in the 2012 British Wildlife Photography Awards.
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From the field Angelique Todd has spent the past 15 years working as a WWF primate specialist in the Central African Republic – specifically in Dzanga-Sangha, one of the last strongholds for iconic species like forest elephants and lowland gorillas. Six weeks ago, a government coup in the country turned her life, and our vital conservation work, upside-down [...]
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Paul Naylor is an marine biologist and underwater photographer, who aims to increase the understanding of what amazing wildlife lurks beneath the waves around our coastlines. His ‘Sunstar in Brittlestar Bed’ was Highly Commended in the 2012 British Wildlife Photography Awards.
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Indonesia has the second largest natural tropical forests on the planet and these have endured continual threats from illegal logging and unsustainable practices for decades. WWF and many other local and international groups are working to turn these problems around to ensure ‘High Conservation Value Forests’ are left standing. It would be great to think [...]
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Grant Miller is the head of the National CITES Team within the UK Border Force. Based at Heathrow airport, this team play a vital role in tackling illegal wildlife trade by stopping and seizing CITES-listed products being trafficked through UK borders. “With the 40th anniversary of CITES and the recent meeting of nations in Thailand [...]
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Our campaigner Anthony Field has posed questions to photographer Dr Matt Doggett, overall winner of the 2012 British Wildlife Photography Awards. Anthony, a keen photographer, is currently pushing for reform of the EU’s fisheries policy. You’ve said you aim to take photos that tell a story. Can you warm the cockles of our hearts with [...]
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Sometimes when people think policy, they think boring – talking about document wording, and who’s saying what on which issues. For me it’s exciting – there’s a rush when a delegate repeats on the floor what you’ve said in the lunch break – and highly important, because without the right policies in place you can’t [...]
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It’s been an unusual CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP) so far. A big debate on secret voting earlier on delayed the main agenda, so we’ve only today gotten on to some of the higher profile agenda items we’re here to discuss. Elephant discussions began and a number of Parties, including the EU member states, [...]
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I’m in Tromsø in Norway this week, which is north of the Arctic circle. WWF has brought together some of the world’s leading polar bear experts from Russia, Norway, Greenland, Canada and Alaska in the US – the polar bear ‘range states’ – for a workshop at the Fram High North Research Centre for Climate [...]
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gallery Dragon’s Den investor and WWF Ambassador Deborah Meaden is on a mission – a mission to raise awareness about the illegal trade of wildlife. She recently visited the UK Border Force to see the sheer quantity of illegal wildlife products that are being seized here in the UK.
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Policy work can sometimes be disappointing. Hours of talking, ‘working the room’ (as my good friend and roommate here in Thailand likes to say) to meet delegates, and staying up late to work on the development of policy text – and the outcome can still go the wrong way. Not today though! Today was the [...]
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