— wwf to projects that you are involved in? ~ , , , ., involved in?absolutely, first of all, thank you for having - involved in? absolutely, first of all, thank you for having me i involved in? absolutely, first of| all, thank you for having me and involved in? absolutely, first of- all, thank you for having me and the duke of edinburgh was one of the founders of wwf, 60 years ago and as you say he was the president, he was actually president emeritus until the end of his life and the president of wwf uk and he made an invaluable contribution to our mission. the duke was a man of action and was he was a tireless advocate, he had been advocate head of states rn, corporate business, leaders and for the conversation of the natural world and he made over 50 trips to visit the projects, he launched campaigns for example the first rainforest campaign, and instigated new initiatives like the marine programme, deeply actively engaged, offering his voice and influence to the course of nature conversation, is fight! influence to the course of nature conversation

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for more on this i'm joined now by richard leck, head of oceans at wwf australia.ut tell us what this survey shows so far. thanks, lucy. this is a heartbreaking story. what we are seeing is a really serious event unfolding on the great barrier reef. parts of the reef are under conditions of an underwater heatwave, and we are hearing reports of severe bleaching over an extended area in the central part of the great barrier reef. angus crossed the water cools down over the next few days and weeks and we don't have an official mass bleaching event, but what we have heard now is really serious, and it is certainly going to extend for a long length of the reef marine park. ~ , ., park. we were 'ust looking at some pictures _ park. we were just looking at some pictures there, - park. we were just looking at some pictures there, and - park. we were just looking at i some pictures there, and what's some pictures there, and what's so striking for anybody that's ever been the great barrier reef is the enormous amount of different colours and the beauty of it, and then you lo

richard leck, head of 0ceans at wwf australia gave me his assessment.e under conditions of an underwater heatwave and we're hearing reports of severe bleaching over an extended area in the central part of the great barrier reef. now, fingers crossed the water cools down over the next few days and weeks and we don't have an official mass bleaching event, but what we've heard now is really serious and it's certainly going to extend for a long length of the reef marine park. we were just looking at some pictures there, and what's so striking for anybody that's ever been on the great barrier reef is the enormous amount of different colours and the beauty of it, and then you look at the bleaching and it'sjust this sort of white colour, isn't it? that's what bleaching is, and that's because the water is too warm. just explain. so, when you get these underwater heatwave conditions that we have now, the corals become incredibly stressed and that brilliant white colour that you see is them suffering that extraordinary heat stress. it's called biofluorescence, an

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lancaster: if you look at data ovided by wwf, global witness, and eia, you find that not only are we going into a record-breaking year of land defenders murdered to protect their forest and environment, the u.s. economy is depressed by about $1 million due to illegal logging imports, and illegal logging is the third-largest trans-national crime. goddard: a tree, in fact, is more complex than we know. it has more chromosomes than we have. it can easily be a victim because it may be illegal to take that species, depending on what genus and species it is or where it's located. lancaster: trees can be poached just as any sort of traditional wildlife can be poached. if you can't identify it, you can't protect it, and so our goal is really to develop a database that can be used, hopefully one day, by anybody in the world in order to do this sort of identification to help them fight illegal logging. huff: a lot of cases we've had, it's very difficult to prove that wood was obtained illegally once it gets processed in a mill or once it's removed from the national forest. basically, we have a