Lundi 23/03/2026 - La grande interview de Yaëlle Labigne - Chargée de projet éducation à l'environnement - WWF NC

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Yaëlle Labigne shares that wildlife populations have dropped 73% in 50 years, with Pacific loggerhead turtles down 80%.

1. Buzz Radio NC hosts Yaël Labigne, WWF New Caledonia project manager for environmental education, for a full interview on Monday March 23, 2026. 2. Host Yannick leads the interview alongside team members Christelle, Mathilde, Steven, Romain, and Janissa; Yaël works at the WWF New Caledonia office located inside the Parc Forestier. 3. The episode covers both an upcoming Earth Hour event and the structural youth environmental education programs that WWF New Caledonia runs throughout the year. 4. WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) was founded in 1961; WWF France launched in 1973; the New Caledonia office will celebrate its 25th anniversary in October 2026, having begun operating in 1997. 5. The WWF New Caledonia office is one of several regional bureaus under WWF France, alongside Paris (headquarters), Marseille, the Alps, and French Guiana. 6. Earth Hour on Saturday March 28 invites families with children to three provincial parks — Parc Forestier, Parc des Grandes Fougères, and Parc de la Rivière Bleue — to participate in guided missions with approximately 15 volunteers. 7. Partners at the parks include the Centre d'Initiation à l'Environnement, the Agence Néo-Calédonienne pour la Biodiversité, Anima-Sciences, and Aventure Pulsion (offering a treasure hunt by VTT and kayak at 2,000 francs). 8. Four communes will extinguish public buildings from 8:30 to 9:30pm: Dumbéa (town hall and media library), Païta (Arène du Sud), Mont-d'Or, and Bourail; Nouméa will not participate for safety reasons but offers a free screening of WALL-E at the Maison de la Biodiversité at 6pm. 9. Earth Hour originated when WWF Australia extinguished the Sydney Opera House to pressure institutions and businesses to act on environmental issues; the event now involves more than 185 countries. 10. The WWF Living Planet Report, produced every two years by WWF International, found that wild vertebrate animal populations have fallen by an average of 73% over the past 50 years. 11. In New Caledonia specifically, South Pacific loggerhead (grosse-tête) turtles have declined by 80%, a figure Yaël links to the broader biodiversification crisis affecting local marine ecosystems. 12. WWF New Caledonia runs three program areas: forest (dry forest restoration at La Coulée, fire prevention, and riverbank restoration of the Néra ripisilve); marine (turtle monitoring and dugong surveys); and youth education. 13. A dugong aerial survey in partnership with the IRD is planned for June to count the dugong population in New Caledonia. 14. Turtle monitoring focuses on nesting success rates and the male-to-female ratio, which is threatened by rising nest temperatures: warmer nests produce more females, creating a reproduction imbalance. 15. Yaël studied commerce and then completed a master's in communications before joining WWF France as an alternate in Paris, where she worked on the UNOC (UN Ocean Conference) held in Nice in June 2025 and on the October 2024 Living Planet Report launch. 16. The youth education program targets children aged 6 to 15, aiming to reconnect them to nature through wonder and accessible science rather than moral lecturing, in line with WWF's solution-focused identity. 17. A key statistic frames the urgency: children today spend three times less time outdoors than their parents did, and outdoor school excursions are increasingly being cancelled. 18. The guide 'Explorer la biodiversité calédonienne à l'école' is being tested in 8 schools across Nouméa, Grand Nouméa, Province Nord, and the Loyalty Islands, with activities ranging from species identification in the schoolyard to auditing the school's eco-features such as composting or vegetable gardens. 19. The episode is conversational and warm, with frequent jokes and banter between the host and team; the interview style balances light humour with substantive environmental data. 20. Listeners interested in local conservation, environmental education for children, or New Caledonia's biodiversity will find this episode most useful; listeners looking for policy debate or global climate coverage will find the scope too locally focused.

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