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Elephants are capricious.
In fact, I’m beginning to suspect that after 40 years, the Amboseli elephants might well Read more »
I get asked a lot about why IFAW travels to the ice each year to document the commercial seal hunt. Many people Read more »
Two weeks ago today, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and our proud partners unveiled a new Apple iPad and iPhone Read more »
Spain's King Juan Carlos is facing criticism for taking a hunting trip in Botswana, reportedly costing $56,000, during Read more »
The recent news of the King of Spain, Juan Carlos, having hunted an elephant in Botswana’s Okavango Delta region, is Read more »
We don’t meet or talk to criminals often. But that’s exactly what I did last November in Bangkok. At a meeting Read more »
Two weeks ago nine elephants were successfully fitted with satellite-radio tracking collars in Kenya’s vast Tsavo East Read more »
There is nothing more frustrating than being prepared to document the commercial seal hunt and being kept down by one thing Read more »
On Wednesday, a large 8.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia triggered widespread panic as residents 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 »
Tutu launched Sacred Ocean - Global Voices Against the Cruelty of Whaling in
Cape Town with a speech that made an analogy that compared rape and murder, with
the killing of whales.
"Are we surprised that we have lost a sense of the worth of human l Read more »
The chicks were among 62 saved from certain
death in October by the “Chick Bolstering Project” of the South African
Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) which rescues and
hand rears African penguin chicks abandone Read more »
Sacred
Ocean is a campaign by the International Fund for
Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) At the heart of the campaign is an
iconic 3,4-metre high sculpture named Sacred Ocean by renowned cetacean artist and
conservationist Noel Read more »
The rise of the Internet is contributing to the rapid growth
of illegal trade in wildlife, which is having a devastating effect on animals
and ecosystems. Fast, convenient and anonymous, trading of wildlife on the
Internet is posing a major challe Read more »
The birds were seized by the local road police. The
Gyrfalcons had been transported in a lorry of the local construction workers,
the birds were then wrapped with fabric bandages with non-transparent caps on
their heads – a typical “sm Read more »
The three former
sales totaled an estimated 60 tons (55 tonnes) of ivory. According to media
reports, approximately USD $7MIL was yielded as a result by these three
countries combined. This is merely a fraction of what such amounts of raw ivory
w Read more »
About 40 employees
of the super smart Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays will spend Saturday
risking splinters and broken nails, chopping wood, knocking nails and wielding
paint brushes to build and decorate as many kennels as possible for dogs Read more »
Yesterday, in a mercy mission to
Dyer
Island, officials rescued
an initial 35 chicks and more will likely be
collected from the island in the coming days. Dyer Island,
situated about eight kilometres offshore from Gansbaai in the Western Cape, i Read more »
Both China and
Japan have been approved as trading
partners for this ivory and are known to be among the world’s largest illegal
ivory markets. The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) Elephants Program D 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 »
If you wanted to ask an elephant a question, how would you go about it? One way would be to record an elephant’s call Read more »
The United Arab of Emirates’s Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW) has announced a new regulation on importing Read more »
Janice Girardi of the International Fund for Animal Welfare-supported Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA) has shared this Read more »
Around the world, safe wild places for bears are disappearing. Mankind is destroying bear habitat at an alarming rate, and Read more »
One of July’s days, the local fishers have offered us to give us a ride to “Nogliki” – the nearest Read more »
Based on information IFAW provided about the rampant illegal trade of ivory on the markets, China’s Forestry Read more »
Based on information provided by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org), China’s Read more »
This post was filed from the field by the International Fund for Animal Welfare Western Grey Whale Research team Read more »
The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Environment and Water has filed complaint against the man after it sent their 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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