Conservation and environmental news & publications: Chile
27 Nov 2008
Pacific tuna face risky fisheries meeting
Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific also face collapse if a forthcoming management meeting doesn't dramatically change the way they are harvested, WWF warned today.
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23 Jun 2008
Fisheries, not whales, to blame for shortage of fish
The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organizations said today as the International Whaling Commission opened its 60th meeting in Santiago, Chile. » Read more
20 Jun 2008
Whales set to chase shrinking feed zones
Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean whales has found. » Read more
05 Mar 2008
This time, world should heed OECD call to action on environment
Paris: The OECD’s Environment Outlook to 2030, issued today, was welcomed by WWF as yet another compelling argument that the costs of inaction on the environment will far exceed the costs of action.
The OECD Outlook is the latest - and at 520 pages one of the weightiest - in a run of reports from prominent economic institutions and commissions calling on governments and international institutions to face up to the seriousness and immediacy of global environmental problems. » Read more
05 Mar 2008
Lethal whale "research" programmes produce meat, not answers: WWF
Japan would do better whale research by not killing whales, said WWF on the eve of a key International Whaling Commission planning meeting.
Today, much more plentiful and reliable information is available using the many better new ways of collecting whale data rather than much the same old ways of killing them.
30 Jan 2008
Indigenous peoples win conservation successes in Chile
A near 20 year struggle for land rights and conservation of their rare Araucaria forests for an indigenous Pehuenche community of the Andes range has been rewarded with a grant of title to 22,000 acres of land in southern Chile. » Read more
19 Jun 2007
Salmon farming threatens Chile's Patagonian lakes
A new WWF study finds that the production of farmed salmon in Chile’s unique Patagonian lakes has doubled in the last decade, contaminating them with nutrient pollution, invasive species, disease and harmful chemicals. » Read more
07 May 2007
Bottom trawling at the end of the line?
A landmark agreement has been reached to end high seas bottom trawling, one of the world’s most destructive fishing practices, in nearly a quarter of the world’s oceans. » Read more
08 Jan 2007
Chilean president awards marine centre for blue whale conservation
A WWF-supported marine centre in Chile has received a prestigious national award for its significant contribution to the conservation of endanagered blue whales. » Read more
26 Oct 2006
WWF honours Chileans for coastal forest conservation
WWF has presented the Chilean timber company Masisa and the Mapu Lahual Indigenous Association with a “Leaders for a Living Planet” award in recognition of their conservation efforts to protect the coastal forests of the Valdivian Ecoregion. » Read more
