News Summary:
On February 3, 2026, WWF highlighted its continued support for local community efforts to increase sea turtle populations around Fiji's Dravuni Island, which have been impacted by fishing bycatch, poaching, and climate change, as part of a review of its 2025 actions. Previously, on January 16, 2026, WWF welcomed the High Seas Treaty's entry into force, urging governments, ocean industries, and the scientific community to collaborate to ensure its success in a new era of ocean governance. This followed WWF's response on January 13, 2026, to the WEF Global Risks Report 2026, where it called for urgent system-wide changes as environmental concerns emerged as dominant long-term risks, noting global temperatures exceeding 1.5°C in 2024 and 2025 being declared the third warmest year on record. The organization had previously reflected on its broader 2025 efforts to secure a better world for all life on Earth, including the significance of safe passage along migratory highways for maintaining healthy whale populations, in a report published December 21, 2025.