In 2020, the WWF also condemned the "senseless killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, and a continued pattern of violence toward African Americans." "We cannot be silent when so much is at stake for our nation, our sacred institutions, our core values, and our common humanity," said the group, adding that the attack "was stoked, shamefully, by some of the very elected officials our country entrusted to faithfully carry out that process." Capitol saying it "strongly condemns last week's attack on American democracy and the ongoing calls for violence."
Last year, the group issued a lengthy statement after the Jan. While the WWF has been reluctant to criticize Russia, the organization has taken strong political stances in the past on U.S. Our hearts and thoughts are with those affected, especially the people of Ukraine and everyone in the impacted regions." The WWF's international office has issued a brief statement, which does not mention Russia by name, saying it is "gravely concerned about the mounting situation in Ukraine, and we are alarmed by the disturbing violence and destruction across the country. Hrynyk described WWF's removal request as an attempt to "censor their colleagues in national offices who have taken a stance on these calls" and noted that WWF has declined to speak out against Russia's war.
environmental groups and the Russian government. It also comes as Republican lawmakers have launched a probe into potential financial ties between other U.S. The move comes as the WWF has avoided direct criticism of the Russian government, which the global climate change and wildlife activist group maintains close ties with through its advocacy work and its office leadership in Moscow. WWF's international management reportedly asked Hrynyk to remove WWF-Ukraine's name, arguing that "as an international conservation organization we need to stick to stricter guidelines that safeguard our long-term ability to do conservation work across the world." The letter was signed by more than 100 NGOs, including the Rainforest Action Network and Global Witness. "But just days later I received an email from representatives of WWF international's management." "WWF-Ukraine was one of the very first organizations to put their names to the statement to ban Russian and Belarusian wood imports," wrote the UNCG's Yehor Hrynyk in a recent statement on the group's website.
The WWF-Ukraine chapter had added its name to a joint statement this month, organized by the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (UNCG), which called on democratic governments to ban imports of Russian timber and wood products, a $13 billion industry, and denounced Russia's "aggressive war against Ukraine," according to the UNCG. The World Wildlife Fund blocked its Ukraine chapter from signing a public statement last week denouncing the Russian government's invasion, claiming that it could harm the group's "long-term ability to do conservation work across the world," according to a Ukrainian environmental activist.
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