WWF starts biodiversity fund for French Pacific
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The French branch of the conservation organisatuon the World Wildlife Fund, has announced the creation of an initiative dedicated to helping protect nature in France's overseas territories. These include New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna. The WWF says people should not expect government funding alone to be enough to protect biodiversity. The organisation hopes to raise more than 15 million US dollars from individual people and companies over 5 years.
Presenter: Sandrine Ducrot
Speaker: Ahab Downer, Program manager for WWF New Caledonia; Paula Meyer, former advisor for the French Polynesia 's environmental ministry.
