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In today’s USA Today, science reporter Dan Vergano offers a look at the current decline of big cat populations— Read more »
I love this time of year in Sydney – its beaches, festivals and parties are beginning to warm up and for us whale Read more »
I was happy to see this picture of a newborn Asian elephant in the Pu’er prefecture, where the International Fund for Read more »
The water is so clear it’s like looking through air, colourful coral reefs are so vivid you need sunglasses and Read more »
Boris Culik’s exhaustive research and careful editing have delivered a worthy addition to our baseline knowledge of Read more »
With the support of the Abu Dhabi Police, IFAW’s Middle East North Africa office and the Emirates Dog Breeders Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare was recently invited to a stakeholder meeting in Namibia, organized by the Read more »
As human population grows, pressure has been mounting on areas that are ‘unoccupied’; some of which are wildlife Read more »
Each year thousands of swimmers take to our beaches, with this number increasing every year as population and tourism Read more »
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 »
In order to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to reinforce the protection of the forest elephants that Watch Video »
Take a moment to watch this video on the recent elephant collaring in Amboseli and learn more of IFAW’s partnership Watch Video »
Key anti-whaling actions included the adoption of a resolution condemning
Japanese whaling, and a report by the IWC Scientific Committee that hotly
criticized Japan’s so-called “scientific” whaling program. IFAW
Global Whale Read more »
At the 54th meeting of the SC in October 2006, delegates
and conservation organizations were caught off-guard by a last-minute decision
recommending Japan as a trading partner for the stockpiles. This decision
was made without the knowledge o Read more »
Proposals that would allow for the international commercial trade of elephant
ivory are heating up to be the most contentious of the dozens of proposals to be
voted on. Kenya and Mali have partnered together in an effort to
protect global el Read more »
Dr. Joth Singh, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) Director of Wildlife and Habitat
said from the floor of the meeting, “We welcome the call for IWC member nations
to work together respectfully. A good first ste Read more »
In its report to the plenary meeting of IWC delegates, the Scientific
Committee noted that, there was “little incentive” for Japan to produce data
collected from its JARPN whaling program. The committee went on to note that,
what data Read more »
Despite a 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan currently hunts
more than 1,200 whales a year for what it calls “scientific” whaling, in abuse
of an IWC loophole that allows for the lethal research of whales. Whales hunted Read more »
News of these fatal attacks on those charged with protecting endangered wildlife
is prescient given the upcoming 14th meeting of parties to the Convention on the
International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). Overstretched and
under-resourced Read more »
A majority of citizens in several European countries support a 20-year total ban
on international ivory trade. A series of polls just completed in key EU Member
States, together representing some 320 million European citizens, show
overwhelming le Read more »
The meeting is expected to be contentious, with pro-whaling Japan pushing for a
lifting of the ban, and conservation groups, including IFAW (International Fund
for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org), in
attendance to call for global whale protec 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 »
Earlier this month, I had a chance to travel to the Middle East and to visit the International Fund for Animal Welfare Read more »
This year the International Fund for Animal Welfare Middle East and North Afrcia office engaged fourth and fifth grade Read more »
Extending a Lifeline - Elephants orphaned by conflict, penguins affected by climate change, dogs and cats stranded after Read more »
Almost eight months after war exploded all around them, the animals at the Tripoli Zoo have finally found peace.
The Read more »
Al-Ain Zoo confirmed that the cheetah which escaped from his owner house and caught by authority officers died.
Last week, a Read more »
While I was in Assam, India in March, I was thrilled to learn that Soni, a five-year old female elephant, that we rescued, Read more »
Any dog or cat living in Khayelitsha, Cape Town can count itself extremely lucky if it finds itself at the Mdzananda Animal Read more »
This post was modified from a yet unpublished letter to the editors of Canada’s Corner Brook Western Star newspaper Read more »
So many of us know and have experienced the close bond that exists between people and their animal companions. Such a 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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