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China's environmental policies are rarely worth celebrating, but with Beijing's help, the giant panda appears to be making a comeback. In the most comprehensive survey of the giant-panda population ever taken, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Chinese State Forestry Administration have found almost 1,600 of the endangered pandas in the wild?nearly 50% more than were previously known to exist...
...increase is "very encouraging news," says Li Ning, a communications officer at WWF China?especially since attempts to boost the panda population in captivity have been getting increasingly desperate. Efforts by Chinese researchers?from attempting to mass-produce the animals by cloning to encouraging intercourse using sex dolls and pornographic videos?have had little success; there are still only 161 pandas in captivity worldwide, according to the WWF...
Timothy J. McGinn Guest Predictor: Sports Chair The WWF, riding high off its successful tag-team with the IOP, attempts to lay the smackdown on homelessness. But the campaign will go awry, leaving an infirmary filled with chair-bashed street persons and sledgehammered panhandlers...
...ICELAND The government's announcement that it was to re-start whaling after a 14-year break met with protests from environmental groups, such as the World Wildlife Fund, and the tourist industry. The International Whaling Commission approved a plan to kill 38 minke whales for "scientific research"; the WWF charged that the plan is really a front to resume commercial whaling, which the country is considering after 2006. Whale watching draws about 62,000 visitors to Iceland every year and there are fears that tourists may now boycott the country. European Heroes: Whale Of An Opportunity Brassed Off SERBIA...
...Samotlor field in western Siberia, where 6,500 hectares of land have been heavily contaminated. That won't impress groups like the U.K.-based World Wildlife Fund, which recently decided to sell its BP shares because of environmental concerns in Alaska and elsewhere. Emita Neville, head of advocacy at WWF, argues that BP is "more about the rhetoric of 'beyond petroleum' than the reality." The 51,000 shares sold by the WWF will make no financial dent in a company worth billions, but any perception that one of the few "green" oil companies has lost its way could sting. Still...