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Today we released a special report on Australia’s Last Great Whale Haven – the North West Marine Region. Read more »
Animals introduced as pets, bait or as food sometimes escape or are purposefully released from captivity. Sometimes, those Read more »
Nearly all the world’s remaining wild gorillas and chimpanzees live in Central and West Africa and several key Read more »
Today we heard that the Toronto Zoo is planning on separating Pedro and Buddy, two male African penguins that paired up and Read more »
On Friday, November 4, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and five other major environmental and animal welfare Read more »
If you thought that the illegal ivory trade was something that happened in far away places in Africa and Asia, then the news Read more »
I was out in California recently and was able to pay a quick visit to the Lockwood Animal Rescue Center (LARC) down near LA Read more »
I bought my first mobile phone in 2000. It cost $150 for the handset and $15 for a sim card — quite a fortune then! It Read more »
The overall theme of this meeting, as the German Environment Minister just said via videolink, is to “Act Now.” Read more »
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 »
In order to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to reinforce the protection of the forest elephants that Watch Video »
An investigation conducted by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare; www.ifaw.org) in February revealed how the
rampant trade in elephant ivory being carried out across eBay’s global network
of auction sites is enabling consumers to lit Read more »
Interpol’s Ecomessage Award comes with a prize sponsored by IFAW
(International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) valued at
US$30,000. “By recognizing Cameroon and Hong Kong, Province of
China as the 2007 award rec Read more »
The International Tiger Coalition, comprised of 35 organizations working to
save wild tigers, assembled the world’s largest photo mosaic of a tiger in front
of the World Forum Convention Center today with the message, “End Tiger Trade. Read more »
Since 1994, Japan and Norway have regularly submitted proposals to CITES seeking
to weaken protection for the great whales. This year, Japan proposed a
full review of the population status of all 13 great whale species by CITES,
while Icelan Read more »
In its survey carried out in February 2007, IFAW found that 94% of elephant
ivory for sale on eBay sites was potentially illegal. The report also found that
eBay policies varied from country to country and were often vague and not
enforced. Read more »
“Southern African countries’ ability to comply with CITES is not what they make
it out to be,” says Jason Bell-Leask, IFAW’s Southern Africa Regional Director
and advocate for good conservation management practices and non-c Read more »
WEMS works by collecting, compiling, analyzing and disseminating on a global
scale the information it collects on wildlife crime. In contrast to the
Interpol system, which acts as a central database for official information
submitted by nati Read more »
Mjumbe was made in Kenya from confiscated wire snares, and designed by famed
Kenyan metal sculptor, Kioko. IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) commissioned the sculpture as part
of its global elephant protection campai Read more »
The sale of the 60 tonne stockpiles approved in 2002 at the 12th meeting of the
CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP) was contingent upon certain conditions
being met, including the availability of baseline and comparative data from the
Monitoring 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 »
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 »
The poachers rode into the park on horseback from Chad and Sudan, armed with automatic weapons and a single purpose: Kill as Read more »
I was in Beijing last week to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Read more »
And so it begins…day one of the Canadian commercial seal hunt in the Northern Gulf of St Lawrence
The International Read more »
All around Australia oil and gas companies are closing in on vital whale habitats. Any day now leases covering endangered Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants to track 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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