Q&A with Maria Honig, WWF Accelerating Coastal Community-led Conservation Initiative Leader The UN Ocean Conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal, the last week of June, after two years’ delay due to COVID-19. Maria Honig attended the highly anticipated event and came away with a mixture of disappointment and cautious optimism. …

By Ghislaine Llewellyn, Deputy Leader, WWF Oceans Practice For some people, putting a value on nature is deeply unsettling. How can one species — humans — put a price on the exquisite diversity of life with which we share our planet? I am sympathetic to the argument that nature’s value…

It is often said that regulators lag behind business and research. But when it comes to a new extractive industry, regulators can do one smart thing to catch up. By Jessica Battle, WWF No Deep Seabed Mining Initiative Leader Regulators can and must push pause on deep seabed mining. Deep…

By Andy Cornish Ph.D., Leader of WWF Sharks: Restoring the Balance Preventing extinctions has been a primary aim of shark and ray conservation for decades, but the numbers don’t lie. These efforts — including our own — haven’t kept pace with the threats. We all need to raise our level…

By Marina Antonopoulou, Nature Conservation and Climate Director at Emirates Nature-WWF It’s becoming clearer by the day that a paradigm shift in our relationship with nature is required to build back from the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Skyrocketing energy prices and the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine are encouraging some global leaders to expand hydrocarbon production in the Arctic. If this goes ahead, it would be a disaster. by Jan Dusík, WWF Arctic Programme interim Director. The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on…

By Michele Kuruc, WWF-US Vice President, Marine Policy The global fisheries sector is a complex web of people, vessels, companies, and organizations spread across many countries and operating under different authorities and jurisdictions. Illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing practices, and the resulting products entering the global seafood market, drive…

By Maria Honig, leader of Accelerating Community-led Conservation Initiative On International Women’s Day, WWF celebrates the key role women play as coastal stewards. “My goal is to set an example as a fishing community that has a high quality of life for both men and women, while taking care of…

By Dr. Andy Cornish, Leader of Sharks: Restoring the Balance, WWF’s global shark and ray conservation programme The value of coral reefs to sharks has long been known. The complex structures that corals form shelter a huge variety of species, creating oases of ocean biodiversity and providing plenty of food…