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WWF-Brazil urges: collect stamps, not parrots

Brazil's parrots who are captured for their beauty and threatened by habitat loss now feature on a ...

08 June 2001
Snow leopards poached for new skeleton trade

Until recently, the endangered snow leopard has been hunted solely for its coat of white-grey fur. ...

22 May 2001
965 Indus dolphins counted in latest survey

They're blind, they swim on their side, and they are found nowhere else in the world: a census of ...

15 May 2001
Swimming against the tide

Greater cooperation between the countries of the Caribbean is urgently needed to stem the tide of ...

14 May 2001
Mystery of the Monarch butterflies solved

The death of thousands of Monarch butterflies was due to deforestation and cold, not pesticides as ...

11 May 2001
WWF working to save the Iberian lynx

The Iberian lynx, the most endangered cat species, as well as the only endemic large carnivore in ...

02 May 2001
Combating the alien invasion in South Africa

Conservationists have long been painfully aware of the disastrous effects of alien invasive ...

27 April 2001
Snow leopards poached for new skeleton trade

In the mountains of Central Asia lives the endangered snow leopard that now faces a new foe: bone ...

25 April 2001
Swedish government fails to protect porpoises

WWF and two Swedish NGOs, the Swedish Society for the Marine Environment (S-MAR), and Swedish ...

12 April 2001
Japanese whalers defy world opinion

In keeping with their annual defiance of international opinion, Japanese whalers return to port ...

11 April 2001

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