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When the piggy has enough money she will call Dr. Sandra Valdez who will ask vet friends to donate their time for a weekend Read more »
Northern fires. Lots of them and big ones. If you have been reading the paper or listening to the news, you will have heard Read more »
What would it be like if the lion population really did vanish completely? If you wanted to travel to the African plains and Read more »
A supporter nearly shouts over the phone receiver, ”All Jiangmen city dogs will be culled. Please help”! Appeals Read more »
The data in DFO’s own report raises the question: If cod mortality does not track to grey seal numbers, how could a Read more »
However, never in my wildest dreams did I picture myself pushing a stuffed leopard through the corridors of the European Read more »
We left Cat Lake to head over to Summer Beaver, another fly in only community about an hour’s hop away. Logistics are Read more »
On 26 July 2011, several news outlets reported that Victor Gordon, a Philadelphia African art-store owner, was arrested by Read more »
UDPATE: 8.9.11 - On July 23-24, 2011, Six confiscated orphan Grauer's gorillas, aged 5-8 years old, were moved from a Read more »
In the video above, IFAW CEO & President Azzedine Downes speaks with INTERPOL at their headquarters in Lyon, France. Watch Video »
It is 8 am. The temperature is already near 40°C on this part of the planet, which has now been identified as a high- Watch Video »
WARNING: the video above may be disturbing to some viewers.
This week’s video of the horrific attack of a small Watch Video »
In this brief video above you can hear the IFAW-WTI team member and in this instance also camera person, Bhaskar Choudhury Watch Video »
This brief video above from Euronews describes the scene at the Paris Natural History Museum.
If there’s any doubt Watch Video »
Toma, seen taking her first steps in the video above, is one of six orphaned bear cubs recently rescued in Russia and Watch Video »
Last November, villagers from Anini, a small and remote town in Northeast India, spotted four tiger cubs moving around their Watch Video »
I was completely shocked to hear that 86 elephants were killed close to the Chad border with Cameroon and their ivory Watch Video »
A video update from Geneva, Switzerland on Canada's WTO challenge to the EU seal import ban by IFAW's EU Watch Video »
Whale watch operators from Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe,
St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as hotel and tourism
associations from Dominica and St. Lucia
participated. “CARIBwhale’s mission is Read more »
“The gorillas and their caregivers depart for Cameroon on a scheduled Kenya Airways flight
early on the morning of 13 December 2006,” says Christina Pretorius,
Communications Manager for IFAW Southern Africa. The gorillas are
to b Read more »
On Friday, December 1, 2006, the Latin American Meeting on Cetacean
Conservation was held in the city of Buenos Aires. It was hosted by the Republic
of Argentina through Ambassador Eduardo Iglesias, the Argentinean Commissioner
to the Internationa Read more »
The new Gallup poll was commissioned by the International Fund for Animal
Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) in light of
Iceland’s resumption of commercial whaling. Despite little market
for meat from Iceland’s so-called “scient Read more »
Caring for a pet is a lifelong commitment. Don’t assume your loved one
wants or will accept that responsibility.Choosing a pet is a personal experience that requires research and
discovering which pet is a good match for the adopter Read more »
Despite global outcry against the hunting of whales and a ban on whaling
since 1986, Minister Liburd indicated at a recent meeting of Caribbean
government officials that the region should follow Japan’s lead and kill whales
for their m Read more »
IFAW has been campaigning to end Canada’s commercial seal hunt for more than
thirty years, and experts with the organization are very pleased with the
council’s decision. “This decision sends a very strong message to European
gov Read more »
Dr. Ernst Breitling, president of the National Veterinary Association submitted the written request to top government officials including Prime Minister Angela Merkel. “Veterinarians, as the best protectors of animals, are outraged by the grues Read more »
The European Parliament today called for a determined Europe-wide effort to
combat the impacts of destructive and unsustainable fishing, shipping, oil
drilling, marine pollution, coastal and offshore construction and littering,
which present an es Read more »
As domesticated animals, dogs and cats
rely on us for the basic care that is essential for
their health and well-being. At Read more »
Official government of Japan statistics, Japanese press clippings, and public opinion polling in Japan show conclusively that Read more »
The IFAW research vessel Song of the Whale (SOTW) left the Azores at the beginning of May bound for the north-east coast of t Read more »
The illicit trade in wildlife is not only a serious global environmental crime with profoundly negative impacts for endangere Read more »
The EU legislation being challenged by Canada and Norway is Regulation (EC) No. 1007/2009, also known as the “EU s Read more »
The preliminary submissions in this brief are aimed at correcting the misleading and incomplete manner in which Canada has ch Read more »
Committing to help Bhutan save its natural heritage, the International Fund for Animal Welfare-Wildlife Trust of India (IFAW Read more »
Though I’ve seen captive hoolock gibbons swinging through branches in the past, it's quite a visual Read more »
Poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants for their tusks in Cameroon in a continuing killing spree that began in mid Read more »
I am writing to you from an international meeting of law enforcers in Bangkok, Thailand. The delegates have come Read more »
It’s a reality of life that we are often times confronted by more bad news than good, be it via television, radio or Read more »
We’ve just said goodbye to January, the month of new beginnings, headstarts and shiny optimism for the year ahead. And Read more »
Well, Saturday marked one month since we began responding on 12 January, 2012.
We've found two more dead Read more »
We were saddened to learn of the death of a rhino named ‘Spencer’ yesterday during the attempted demonstration Read more »
My team is responding to another live dolphin about to strand in Wellfleet as I write this from the Command Center.
If Read more »
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Ivory Worship - Thousands of elephants die each year so that their tusks can be carved into religious objects. Can the slaughter be stopped? See the original article »
Japan, Norway, others vote down South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary - The Los Angeles Times See the original article »
Mysterious Cape Cod dolphin beachings continue - CBSNEWS.com See the original article »
The New York Times: Dozens of Stranded Dolphins on Cape Cod Shores Perplex Rescuers See the original article »
The UAE National: "Falcon smuggler arrested at airport" - IFAW's Elsayed Mohamed is quoted: See the original article »
The Guardian: Activists push for international ban on legal trade in polar bear items See the original article »
Los Angeles Times - "South Korea said to be scrapping whaling plan after outcry" - IFAW's Matt Collis is quoted: See the original article »
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