The increase in fisheries classified as overfished by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the growing gulf between well managed and ...
08 Jun 2020 Read more »
In a Mediterranean region ravaged by the COVID-19 epidemic and that is struggling to kick off an unpromising 2020 tourism season, on World Oceans Day ...
08 Jun 2020 Read more »Rome, Italy - WWF is objecting to the potential sustainability certification by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) of the first Atlantic bluefin ...
01 Jun 2020 Read more »With the release of the MSC’s Fisheries Certification Process v 2.2 on 25 March 2020, WWF is very concerned by the lack of overall improvements, and ...
01 Apr 2020 Read more »A premature MSC certification of Atlantic bluefin tuna would provide dangerous incentives to the market and consumers, warns WWF today.
26 Feb 2020 Read more »
Thousands of dead fish, including European eels, one of the most endangered species, recently washed up on the coast of the saltwater Mar Menor ...
01 Dec 2019 Read more »
After a 2200 km long journey across the Mediterranean, the Blue Panda has finally reached the last stop of our 6-month journey: we are in Tangier in ...
18 Nov 2019 Read more »
The Blue Panda has reached the south of the Mediterranean: Tunisia, a balmy, sand-fringed Mediterranean coast, scented with jasmine and sea breezes, ...
27 Oct 2019 Read more »
Izmir is the second city in the Mediterranean to join WWF’s action against plastic pollution and to commit to stop any source of plastic leakage into ...
05 Oct 2019 Read more »
Prince Islands -an archipelago of 9 islands close to Istanbul- will be one of the first pilot sites to be included in Turkey’s national Zero Waste ...
19 Sep 2019 Read more »
“Istanbul is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what ...
12 Sep 2019 Read more »
Coastal activities are responsible for half of the plastic entering the sea. In the next weeks, the Blue Panda will be in the most iconic "Riviera" ...
13 Aug 2019 Read more »
Today the world’s environment ministers at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (COP14) meeting in Geneva decided to include ...
10 May 2019 Read more »
Over the last four years, WWF and partners engaged with fishers, technologists, scientists, universities, and NGOs, from the region to find and share ...
24 Apr 2019 Read more »
An unfortunate incident took place this weekend in Port De Peche Kelibia, Tunisia, where nine Giant Devil Rays were landed.
08 Apr 2019 Read more »
A young pregnant sperm whale was found dead with 22 kg of plastic in its stomach along the coast of Porto Cervo, the famous tourist destination in ...
01 Apr 2019 Read more »
Global plastics pollution has been created in one generation and, with system-wide accountability, can be solved in one ...
05 Mar 2019 Read more »
Last November, 18,000 people from 184 countries gathered in Nairobi (Kenya) for the first international Conference on Sustainable Blue Economy. The ...
10 Jan 2019 Read more »
European fisheries are currently making the transition to reduce discards, and to bring all catches to land as part of the implementation of the ...
04 Dec 2018 Read more »
After eight days of heated negotiations, the EU and the 50 tuna fishing nations that constitute the International Commission for the Conservation of ...
19 Nov 2018 Read more »