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• World Wildlife Fund's Prestigious Getty Award Given to India's Leading Expert on Tiger Conservation

  - 2007-10-16

  To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Kerry Green Zobor of World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778- 9509, kerry.zobor@wwfus.org WWF Honors Dr. K. Ullas Karanth with $200,000 Prize for Scientific Leadership WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- World Wildlife Fund announced today that it has named Dr. K. Ullas Karanth as the winner...

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• Paramount Classics Establishes 'Arctic Fund'

  - 2007-07-11

  To: FILM EDITORSContact: Alison Lehrer for Paramount Classics, +1-323-956-8790, alison.lehrer@paramountvantage.com HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paramount Classics has established the "Arctic Fund" to coincide with the release of their film, ARCTIC TALE, on July 25. Four groups working to protect the Arctic and its inhabitants -- The National Geographic...

  Tags: National Geographic, National Wildlife Federation, World Wildlife Fund Inc.

• Amur Leopard Remains on the Brink of Extinction, Scientists Say

  - 2007-04-18

  To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: Kathleen Sullivan of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778- 9576, kathleen.sullivan@wwfus.org VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, April 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new census of the world's most endangered cat, the Amur or Far Eastern leopard Panthera pardus orientalis, shows that as few as 25 to 34 are left in the wild,...

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• A challenge to conservationists

  - 2004-11-01

  As corporate and government money flow into the three big international organizations that dominate the world's conservation agenda, their programs have been marked by growing conflicts of interest--and by a disturbing neglect of the indigenous peoples whose land they are in business to protect. ********** A WAKE-UP CALL...

  Tags: Central, Conservation International, David, IUCN, Nature, TNC, Vol, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund Inc.

• Environmental Organizations Support Reauthorization of the Tropical Forest Conservation Act

  - 2004-09-07

  WASHINGTON, Sept 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The House of Representatives today passed HR 4654 by a unanimous vote, reauthorizing the Tropical Forest Conservation Act TFCA of 1998 for another three years. Over that period the bill authorizes appropriations of $75 million. Since 1998 TFCA has funded conservation activities...

  Tags: World Wildlife Fund Inc.