Conservation news: Rivers, Lakes & Wetlands
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WWF: Agreement on finance key to success at Hyderabad biodiversity meet
The first week of negotiations at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad ...
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More than 3 million hectares of elephant, gorilla habitat get new protection
More than 3 million hectares of newly designated Ramsar sites in the Republic of Congo will provide ...
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Laos’ last chance to save last 6 river dolphins
A tiny population of six river dolphins, isolated in a deep pool in the Mekong River on the border ...
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Stockholm World Water Week – Exciting, exhausting…and somewhat disappointing
The last week of August, I made my annual pilgrimage to Stockholm, Sweden, to join thousands of ...
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Mekong dams could rob millions of their primary protein source
Hydropower dams planned for the lower mainstem of the Mekong River could decimate fish populations ...
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Water management requires global perspective, local solutions
But while the water challenge is truly global, it also demands solutions that are tailored to local ...
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Lower Danube birds are rearing fewer young, WWF expedition observes
WWF’s annual trans-boundary expedition which examines bird colonies in the Lower Danube between ...
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Veritable revolution for Danube wetlands
This week the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is holding its triennial global conference in ...
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Ramsar honours WWF pioneers
At today’s opening session of the 11th Conference of Parties, the Convention on Wetlands of ...
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Ramsar conference an opportunity to turn rhetoric of Rio+20 into bold action to protect freshwater ecosystems
This Ramsar conference comes shortly after Rio+20, a squandered opportunity to put the world on a ...
