September 14 , 2001

WWF plans for cleaner world

Nunatsiaq News

IQALUIT — Last week the leaders of the World Wildlife Federation’s Arctic offices met in Toronto to discuss the impact of development, climate change and pollutants on the circumpolar world.

The WWF, a group devoted to conservation efforts, works in 100 countries.

By 2010, the WWF leaders said they want to complete a circumpolar network of protected areas, restore threatened wildlife populations, cut emissions of greenhouse gasses thought to cause global warming, and, by 2007, eliminate 30 of the most hazardous industrial chemicals and pesticides found in the Arctic.

The participants’ press conference was broadcast live on the Internet. It can be heard at www.wwf.ca.