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OUR PLANET BOOK See Page 30 the MAGAZINE for WWF MEMBERS SUMMER 2019 WIN A COPY OF THE OUR PLANET BOOK See page 30 THE MAGAZINE FOR WWF MEMBERS SUMMER 2019 CLIMATE CRISIS How you’re helping walruses and other Arctic wildlife cope with a rapidly changing world INFRARED APES BE KIND TO BEES Why we’re testing incredible We can’t live without star-spotting technology bees, so here’s how to help protect orangutans to give them a hand CONTENTS TOGETHER, WE DID IT! 4 INTERVIEW: HUW CORDEY 24 A round-up of all you’ve helped We chat to the Our Planet “WE’RE FACING A MANMADE us achieve in recent months producer about making the groundbreaking Jungles episode WWF IN ACTION 6 Environment news, including MAKE A BUZZ ABOUT BEES 26 DISASTER OF GLOBAL SCALE, OUR your best Earth Hour yet! Pollinators are essential to our survival, but they’re in trouble. ARCTIC TIPPING POINT 10 Wildlife gardener Kate Bradbury It’s time to get the world talking about the home we all The Arctic is in crisis, and its explains how we can all do our bit GREATEST THREAT IN THOUSANDS share, before it’s too late. That’s why we partnered with Netfix to create the stunning new series Our Planet. most iconic wildlife is struggling to give them a boost Each programme showcases diferent habitats to adapt. Paul Bloomfeld experiencing change – including the Great Barrier Reef explains how you’re helping in Australia – and explores what steps we must all take GIVEAWAYS 30 OF YEARS: CLIMATE CHANGE” to protect them. Climate change is causing horrifc coral to safeguard its future Win your choice of fun and funky bleaching and damaging this vital reef system, the biggest animal jewellery from our new living structure on the planet. It’s a stark reminder that our BIG PICTURE 18 Tatty Devine range, a copy of SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, WWF AMBASSADOR actions in the next 20 years will determine the future for all life on Earth. Find out more at ourplanet.com An extraordinary behind-the- Our Planet and other great prizes scenes moment with Our Planet producer Sophie Lanfear – CROSSWORD 31 and her new friend Solve our crossword and you could win a copy of The Snow STARS AND ORANGUTANS 20 Leopard Project How clever stargazing technology is illuminating the secret life of NOTES FROM THE FIELD 31 orangutans, thanks to you. Our Planet producer Hugh By Barney Jefries Pearson reveals his highlights from the High Seas episode MEET THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS TOM ARNBOM SERGE WICH KATE is WWF’s senior is a biologist BRADBURY adviser on the and professor is an award- Arctic, based in at Liverpool winning author Stockholm. He first worked John Moores University. and journalist, specialising in the Arctic 45 years ago, He’s been working with in wildlife gardening. She and has seen the impact of WWF in Sabah to trial a says: “Our beleaguered climate change first-hand. new method of counting bees need our gardens COVER: CLIMATE EMERGENCY He says: “It’s not the same orangutans. He says: now more than ever. If you Arctic I saw in the 1970s. “I wasn’t sure infrared Climate change is wreaking havoc on our planet, create the right habitats, © ALAMY. CONTENTS: © OLIVER SCHOLEY / SILVERBACK FILMS /NETFLIX | © SARAH CUTTLE And what happens in the would work, but it’s been you’ll be surprised at how threatening all life as we know it. If we fail to act on Arctic doesn’t stay there.” extremely successful.” quickly wildlife turns up.” climate change, one in six species faces extinction. Across the globe, we’re uncovering devastating new evidence that wildlife cannot cope with our warming GET IN TOUCH MEET THE ACTION TEAM world. Shrinking sea ice is forcing tens of thousands of Editor Jessie-May Murphy walruses ashore, with deadly consequences (see page wwf.org.uk/contact [email protected] Editorial assistant Emma Collacott 10). Animals and people are having to adapt or move in 01483 426333 Loyalty marketing manager Ruth Simms order to survive. Rising temperatures are causing insect WWF-UK Living Planet Centre, Loyalty marketing executive Jo Trinick populations to crash. And precious coral reefs are Ruford House, Brewery Road, Senior editor Guy Jowett being destroyed by mass bleaching events. Woking, Surrey GU21 4LL For Immediate Media Co. Thanks to your membership, we’re working hard to Consultant editor Sophie Staford protect wildlife, forests and ocean habitats from the FOLLOW US Art editor Nicole Mooney worst efects of climate change. It’s possible to prevent the Account manager Kirsten Coleman wwf.org.uk/facebook widespread loss of nature and harm to human lives that Design director Will Slater climate devastation will bring, but we need to act quickly. wwf.org.uk/twitter Editorial director Dan Linstead We’re calling on the UK government to take wwf.org.uk/pinterest THANKS TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS urgent action to tackle the crisis and end the UK’s wwf.org.uk/news Amy Anderson, Tom Arnbom, Paul Bloomfeld, Kate Bradbury, Huw Cordey, contribution to climate change. Find out more at wwf.org.uk/youtube Barney Jefries, Melanie Lancaster, Nicola wwf.org.uk/actiononclimate wwf.org.uk/instagram Loweth, Hugh Pearson, Serge Wich Produced in association with Immediate Media Co. www.imcontent.co.uk 2 | Action Summer 2019 THANK YOU TOGETHER, WE DID IT! “IF WE DAMAGE THE NATURAL WORLD, WE DAMAGE OURSELVES. WE HAVE THE POWER AND THE KNOWLEDGE TO LIVE TOGETHER, WE DID IT! IN HARMONY WITH NATURE” Thanks to your membership, we can help SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, WWF AMBASSADOR protect wildlife and wild places. Here Timing of the krill fshery activity in the DID YOU are some of the great things supporters peninsula coincides with the humpback whale foraging season – November to July KNOW? like you have helped achieve Humpback whales may consume 1–1.5 tonnes of krill every day 1 KENYA 2 6 during the foraging ANTARCTICA season YOU’RE SUPPORTING A VITAL LION CENSUS YOU’RE HELPING PRESERVE Thanks to you, Kenya’s frst-ever national lion census is 4 HUMPBACK WHALE FEEDING GROUNDS under way, helping to protect one of Africa’s most iconic Thanks to your support, we’ve been unravelling the mystery of species. Globally, lions are in decline. It’s believed that 5 exactly where humpback whales feed on krill. Satellite tracking as few as 20,000 remain in the wild, their populations 1 has identifed the western Antarctic peninsula as a feeding having declined by over 40% in the last three generations. hotspot for these gargantuan gastronomers, and highlighted But lion numbers are notoriously difcult to estimate, so 3 the need for increased protection in the area. Our new report © DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE ROBOTICS AND REMOTE SENSING their predicament may be even worse than feared. Whales of the Antarctic Peninsula, in partnership with the With your support, we’re funding a new, robust method University of California Santa Cruz, reveals that humpbacks rely LAB. RESEARCH CONDUCTED UNDER PERMIT BY NOAA. of counting Kenya’s lions, which involves taking close-up, heavily on the peninsula. “Tracking data from over 60 satellite high-resolution photos of individual lions and their whisker tags shows that the whales forage, rest and travel between spot patterns. These patterns are as unique to the lion as our 337 feeding spots here,” explains Dr Ari Friedlaender, who led the fngerprints are to us, and they’ll help us accurately estimate The number of elephants moved research. “Feeding without disturbance is critical to store up the and monitor lion numbers to make sure our conservation of the tracks in Rajaji Tiger energy to sustain them on their long migration to their tropical © GETTY eforts are based on the best possible science. Following a Reserve by night patrols since breeding grounds.” Like the humpbacks, the krill fshery follows successful trial, the method is being rolled out across Kenya. 6 July 2018. On average, about three the seasonal movement of krill close to shore, placing them in To fnd out more, visit wwf.org.uk/lions direct competition with the whales and increasing the risk of accidents were averted each week © GETTY disturbance and ship strikes. We’re fghting for a network of marine protected areas to help safeguard these gentle giants. 2 BULGARIA 3 JAVA YOU HELPED SAVE AN ANCIENT BALKAN FOREST YOU HELPED 4 INDIA 5 UGANDA Together, we saved Pirin National Park, PROVIDE RELIEF a World Heritage site, from illegal YOU HELPED SAVE ELEPHANTS’ LIVES YOU HELPED PROTECT MOUNTAIN GORILLAS IN A CRISIS © GETTY construction and plans to allow more You’re supporting our work to protect India’s endangered Asian Thanks to you, we’re testing new technology to help protect logging. Bulgaria’s fagship park is a With your support, we elephants from collisions with trains. The country’s expanding Uganda’s mountain gorillas. We’re working through beautiful place of limestone mountains, provided emergency rail network is putting pressure on elephant populations already the International Gorilla Conservation Programme glacial lakes and old-growth pine forests supplies to the victims under threat. So we’re trialling an early warning system that will (IGCP) and with communities neighbouring Bwindi harbouring bears and wolves. Recently, of the tsunami that hit Java and South Sumatra last year. detect elephants on tracks in Rajaji Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand Impenetrable National Park to help reduce confict the Bulgarian government proposed a new This tragic event killed over 400 people and made more than – one of the places where with gorillas and other wildlife. Wild animals management plan for the park that would 10,000 homeless. Several villages within the areas surrounding a lot of collisions occur.
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