Based on its commitment to innovation and the development of original technology, Honda is working to help address society’s environmental and energy concerns – including global climate change, air pollution and energy sustainability – through a comprehensive, portfolio approach that involves both advanced powertrain and energy creation technologies for the near and longer term. This [...]

Gland, Switzerland — As the Year of the Tiger comes to an end, WWF, backed by a group of leading companies, today issued a call for more corporations around the world to reduce their impact on tiger habitats, through responsible procurement of wood, paper, palm oil, coffee, and other commodities. By moving supply chains towards [...]

Gland, Switzerland — As the Year of the Tiger comes to an end, WWF, backed by a group of leading companies, today issued a call for more corporations around the world to reduce their impact on tiger habitats, through responsible procurement of wood, paper, palm oil, coffee, and other commodities. By moving supply chains towards [...]

WASHINGTON, DC – A wild tiger fitted with satellite-collar was successfully translocated from Nepal’s Chitwan National Park to Bardia National Park for the first time today, according to World Wildlife Fund. The translocation was led by the Government of Nepal with support from World Wildlife Fund Nepal (WWF-Nepal) and the National Trust for Nature Conservation [...]

Caroline Behringer caroline.behringer@wwfus.org (443) 285-1928 WASHINGTON, DC – Law enforcement officials in Gabon have arrested five men accused of possessing illegal animal products, including those of endangered species. The raids, conducted by the country’s Water and Forest and Defense Ministries with the assistance of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) partner Support for the Application of the [...]

Caroline Behringer caroline.behringer@wwfus.org (443) 285-1928 WASHINGTON, DC – Sakhalin Energy Investment Company – part owned by Shell – has announced plans to build a major oil platform near crucial feeding habitat of the Western North Pacific gray whale population in the Russian Far East. Only around 130 whales of the critically endangered Western population exist [...]

WASHINGTON, DC – An astonishing 333 rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa in 2010, including 10 critically endangered black rhinos, according to South African national park officials. The annual total is the highest ever experienced in South Africa and nearly triple 2009 numbers when 122 rhinos were killed. An additional five rhinos have already [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Vice President of Marine and Arctic Policy Bill Eichbaum issued the following statement in response to the Final Report released by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. “WWF now calls on President Obama and Secretary of the Interior Salazar to [...]

Discovery Channel’s GOLD RUSH: ALASKA continues to stake its claim on Fridays, with the December 17 premiere episode delivering 2.91 million viewers (P2+). The series, which follows a group of six rookie gold miners from Oregon who risk it all by trying to strike it rich in Alaska, is now the #1 new original series [...]

(Pasadena, Ca.) – Discovery Channel has announced a Chicago spin-off of CASH CAB, everyone’s favorite game show-on-the-go. The new Windy City edition of the Emmy®award-winning series is set for a Summer 2011 premiere with Second City alum and comedian Beth Melewski stepping behind the steering wheel as host. The original CASH CAB with Ben Bailey [...]