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Just this week I read about some 900 dead dolphins washing ashore in Northern Peru, saw the viral video once again of that Read more »
Every year, thousands of elephants are slaughtered for their ivory. Join our elephant march today to convince governments Read more »
Mid 2011 found me brainstorming on how we can rejuvenate the International Fund for Animal Welfare South African Animal Read more »
"Life [is] like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump famously said in the Read more »
It’s not often you can say “mea culpa” and be relieved at the same time, but that’s what happened Read more »
A roar rose from under the small log house. We froze, and our hearts quickened. The dazzle of sunlight on snow made the Read more »
Teeming with life
In my previous visits to Amboseli Park, I had not experienced as much wildlife as I did recently. The long Read more »
Last January the International Fund for Animal Welfare China office Asia Regional Director Grace Ge Read more »
Today Canadian Senator Mac Harb will formally re-introduce legislation to end the commercial seal hunt in Canada.
Despite 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 »
Kenya
Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers arrested two suspected poachers and one middleman
from their hideout in the park, and recovered two AK-47 rifles and 38 rounds of
ammunition. The middleman had already sold off the tusks to other dealers in the Read more »
The warning was issued in a report by the
Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel (WGWAP), a scientific expert committee
convened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to study the
impacts of oil and gas projects on the whales.[1] Re Read more »
Outgoing Fisheries and
Agriculture Minister, Einar K Gudfinnsson, recently granted commercial whaling
quotas of up to 150 endangered fin whales and 100 minke whales a year for the
next five years. Iceland’s new
Fisheries Minister, Steingrim Read more »
The number of animals
being brought in for treatment has risen dramatically over the past few days as
survivors emerge from the fire zones in search of food and water. Many have terrible burns, dehydration
and wounds from fleeing the fires. Read more »
The team, led by IFAW Emergency Responder, Tania Duratovic,
arrived on the scene yesterday and has hit the ground running by helping local
wildlife carers with search and rescue operations, providing treatment, food and
vet supplies.
Workin Read more »
The
Department of Trade and Industry kicks off a second round of public
consultations this Friday to gauge opinion on possibly reinstating legal
greyhound racing in South Africa.
Greyhound racing has been banned in South Africa since
1945.
The Read more »
"The plan released today is a bad deal for
whales and international efforts to protect them" said Patrick Ramage, IFAW
Global Whale Program Director. "It
would lift the commercial whaling moratorium; give new rights to the Government
of Jap Read more »
“Apparently, the last lousy idea of the Bush Administration
was to legitimize commercial whaling in the 21st century. It's unbelievable, and fundamentally
un-American. We should be encouraging Japan, Iceland and Norway
to end whaling, Read more »
Rangers had trailed the poacher
and his accomplice for 17 hours on foot, according to area warden Josphat Erupe.
“We noticed one poacher on top of a tree but he jumped down and vanished. We
only became aware that there was a second man when 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 »
An elephant calf injured in a village, a rhino orphaned by poachers, a full-grown tiger discovered in a well and a leopard Read more »
Some people would think that walking through a charcoaled field (or veld in local slang) at night with temperatures dipping Read more »
On August 7th I was driving back home from a massive spay and neuter campaign in Playa del Carmen, worried because Hurricane Read more »
American actress Kristin Bauer van Straten plays a lethal vampire on television, but is even more deadly serious in her Read more »
This is a heart-wrenching and beautiful letter written by a woman whose lovely dog died yesterday in Bali.
The dog’s Read more »
When I was a child, the borders of my country were closed. I grew up in the Soviet Union and only the most privileged Read more »
As hundreds of flights landing and taking off at the new international airport in Kunming, Yunnan province in China, Read more »
The growing regional demand for having wild and exotic animals as pets fuels illegal wildlife trade in the Middle East. 886 Read more »
“This is a difficult battle, this conservation. We need to address the root cause and raise awareness for people to 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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