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WWF in China

WWF was the first international conservation organisation invited to work in China. It has been active here since 1980, when Dr. George Schaller arrived to work with Chinese scientists on giant panda conservation. Today, WWF China has about 80 staff working on over 40 projects, from restoring the Yangtze river wetlands to environmental education and panda conservation.

In Hong Kong itself, 90 full-time staff are working in 5 offices located in Wanchai, Central, Tai Po, Mai Po and Hoi Ha Wan.

Bejing office founded: 1991
Hong Kong office founded: 31 March 1981

Hong Kong office

Office

WWF China Programme Office,
Beijing

Room 1609 Wen Hua Gong,
Beijing Working People's Culture Palace Post Code:100006
China
+86 10 6511 6211 +86 10 6511 6222

WWF Hong Kong,
Hong Kong

Suite 1002,
Asian House,
1 Hennessy Road,
Wanchai,
Hong Kong
China
+852 2526 1011 +852 2845 2734

WWF Conservation Projects in China

Less Water More Rice

This project will progress the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India. It builds on the 3-year work of the Dialogue in Water, Food and Environm...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Jan 2008

WWF Tiger Action Plan

Drawing upon 4 decades of tiger conservation work with partners around the globe, WWF has developed a new and far-reaching strategy for tiger conserva...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Apr 2002

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China for a Global Shift Initiative Newsletter - January-March 2010

Quarterly newsletter of the China for a Global Shift Initiative available both in English and Chinese.

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 0 comments | Read more

Patterns of Chinese Investment, Aid and Trade in Tanzania.

Patterns of Chinese Investment, Aid and Trade in Tanzania

A briefing paper prepared for WWF by the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) offering an overview of Sino-Tanzanian relations and impacts of Chinese trade and investments on Tanzania's economy, environment and people's livelihood.

Posted on 09 March 2010 | 0 comments | Read more

A briefing paper prepared for WWF by the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Patterns of Chinese Investment, Aid and Trade in Mozambique

A briefing paper prepared for WWF by the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) offering an overview of China-Mozambique relations and impacts of Chinese trade and investments on Mozambique's economy, environment and people's livelihood.

Posted on 09 March 2010 | 0 comments | Read more

A briefing paper prepared for WWF by the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch

Patterns of Chinese Investment, Aid and Trade in Central Africa

An overview of China relations with Central African countries (Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon), and impacts of Chinese trade and investments on the local economy, environment and people's livelihood.

Posted on 09 March 2010 | 0 comments | Read more

Demand for tiger body parts used in traditional Chinese medicine and habitat fragmentation from unsustainable regional infrastructure development have driven the decline of the region’s Indochinese tiger population.

Disappearing Greater Mekong tigers underscore global threats

Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new WWF report.

Posted on 26 January 2010 | 10 comments | Read more

Advice cards in chinese language, produced by WWF, on how to reduce your carbon footprint, COP 15, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Growing China industry helps clean energy boom

Clean energy technology is on track to become the third largest industrial sector globally with a rapidly increasing share taken up by China, predicted a WWF report released at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen today.

Posted on 11 December 2009 | Read more

The EU must take the lead to reduce its CO2 emissions by one third by 2020.

Danish PM's stitch-up on Copenhagen unravels in Beijing

WWF has welcomed the very strong signal from leading emerging economies that the Copenhagen climate change conference is far too important to be stitched up in the usual way by the usual suspects in the developed world.

Posted on 28 November 2009 | 5 comments | Read more

The EU must take the lead to reduce its CO2 emissions by one third by 2020.

Danish PM's stitch-up on Copenhagen unravels in Beijing

WWF has welcomed the very strong signal from leading emerging economies that the Copenhagen climate change conference is far too important to be stitched up in the usual way by the usual suspects in the developed world.

Posted on 28 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Temperatures across the Yangtze River Basin could increase from 1.5 - 2 Degrees Celsius over the next 50 years, while extreme weather events will also become more frequent, according to the largest river basin climate vulnerability assessment yet done.

Yangtze warned to prepare for more droughts, floods and storms

Temperatures across the Yangtze River Basin could increase from 1.5 - 2 Degrees Celsius over the next 50 years, while extreme weather events will also become more frequent, according to the largest river basin climate vulnerability assessment yet done.

Posted on 10 November 2009 | 2 comments | Read more

Houses of shrimp fishermen near Mogla, Sundarbans National Park, Bangladesh. Poverty is rife in the Sundarbans. These shrimp fishermen's houses are threatened by rising water levels due to climate change and the frequent storms that batter this area

G20 finance ministers fail to reach green on climate financing

Finance ministers of the world’s dominant economies failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, WWF said today as the G20 finance ministers meeting here broke up with no resolution to issues dividing developed and emerging economies.

Posted on 07 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

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