The Worldwide Fund for Nature, for instance, now has around 5m members, up from 570, 000 in 1985.
"This is an alarming situation, " said Dipankar Ghose, a New Delhi-based rhino-conservation expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature.
The World Wide Fund for Nature says climate change threatens a massive growth in infectious disease, and may also damage world harvests.
The World Wide Fund for Nature ( www.panda.org) has extensive resources on all species under threat in every part of the world.
The Cross Bath is a Georgian building and is recognised as a sacred site by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature's Sacred Land Project.
Late last month, India's Ministry of Environment told the World Wide Fund for Nature to close the regional office that runs its Tiger Conservation Program.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) is providing emergency aid to Kaziranga wildlife park in Assam, eastern India, where hundreds of animals have drowned in record floods.
Head of the World Wide Fund for Nature Scotland, Simon Pepper, said the Liberal Democrats scored reasonably well with Labour a close second and the Scottish National Party third.
Mr Strel, who is campaigning for the World Wide Fund for Nature, began his swim in Germany in June and hopes to reach Sulina on the shores of the Black Sea.
But on Perancak Beach, on the southeast side of the island, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is working to educate villagers about the need for conserving the endangered turtles.
The World Wide Fund for Nature says a third of the world's forests are under serious threat from climate change -- with dire implications for the species that live in them.
Mark Kenber of the Worldwide Fund for Nature says this is all a distraction from the real aim of Kyoto, which was to promote cleaner technology and more efficient use of energy.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) argued that one study has shown that even a strictly enforced 8, 000-tonne quota would have only a 50% chance of bringing about a recovery by 2023.
The World Wide Fund for Nature, which wants a comprehensive risk assessment of the European coastline carried out as a way of trying to prevent further spills, sent an expert to Brittany to assess the impact of the latest accident.
Until a few years ago, assessing the amount of plant matter in a forest in a cheap and accurate manner seemed an insurmountable problem, according to Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist of the World Wide Fund for Nature, a conservation group that is also involved in the Nepalese lidar project.
Indeed, the World Wildlife Fund, a nature conservation organisation, reckons that bluefin spawners will be virtually eliminated by 2012.
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In November 2006 Daily launched the Natural Capital Project with others from Stanford, the University of Minnesota, the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy.
Daily works on the Natural Capital Project, a joint venture of Stanford, the University of Minnesota, the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy to develop standard tools for the measurement of natural capital.
Most of the news headlines about the fund are tactical in nature as they usually come when famous investors like John Paulson or George Soros are reported to have bought or sold holdings.
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Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot and the Treo mobile phone, used a chunk of his money to fund research into understanding the nature of consciousness, and he even wrote a book on the topic.
The nature of this program is to fund companies that might not otherwise get funding.
Trading, by its nature, is active management and index fund managers did a lot of trading just to stay in the game.
As an important LP (and a rare one with lots of cash to put to work), a Pharma can also influence the nature of the deals done by the fund, and can shape the macro venture fundraising environment by only investing in funds that will do early stage innovation vs later stage incremental assets.
We want to see more deals of this nature and our commitment to support this new fund is just the beginning.
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What is sorely missing in Washington is practical knowledge about the nature of the abuses that are prevalent in the hedge fund arena today.
By their very nature, managed accounts can address another frustrating downside to mutual fund investing.
Councillors voted not to fund the parade, citing it was not "cross-community" in nature.
Much protection, little joy: the trade-off that justifies the zoo business (which Wiseman reveals, with its photo ops and fund-raisers) speaks as well to the blank-eyed viewers of subjugated nature.
The exact nature of the collateral should be disclosed on a regular basis, like the main investments in a mutual fund's portfolio.
Since the mid-1950s, the Fund has demanded policy reforms in exchange for the money that it lends, but in recent years the number and nature of these conditions has greatly expanded.
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