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IFAW has partnered with the UNDP in Bosnia to help communities humanely manage their roaming dog populations. The Read more »
My two favorite things about my job are meeting our donors in person, and visiting our field offices around the world.
I Read more »
Dr. Robinson talks about dolphins stranded on Cape Cod: MyFoxBOSTON.com
Here is a round up of video and news stories from Read more »
Following a week-long meeting on whale conservation with the International Fund for Animal Welfare whale team in Reykjavik, Read more »
Using cute baby animals as mascots for entertainment or commercial promotions makes me hopping mad!
The most recent case was Read more »
Twenty years ago, at the now famous “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, 100 world leaders wrote a prescription for Read more »
In Sydney the first few weeks of the year are a great time to be at work – seriously. It’s time to regroup, get Read more »
In a ‘comment’ posted on Nature.com, authors Christopher Costello, Leah R. Gerber and Steven Gaines argue the Read more »
As A Shawl to Die For, a documentary on Vimeo, amply shows, it’s possible to conserve wildlife while also helping 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 »
The campaign aims to protect endangered wildlife species from the growing illegal commercial wildlife trade around the world. IFAW’s approach to combating illegal wildlife trade in the Middle East and North Africa region is to work in co- Read more »
The badly mutilated body of the female elephant was found at the site along
with an aborted male foetus, suggesting that she was the first to be hit while
leading the herd. According to B Ramakrishnan, Field Officer with the Wildlife
Trust of Indi Read more »
But the fundamental challenges of combating this illegal trade, including the
lack of a legal framework governing Internet trade, the anonymous nature of the
Internet and the exponential explosion of Internet usage,
remain. “Illegal wil Read more »
“Polar bears are already facing potentially catastrophic threats from global
warming, vanishing habitats, toxic pollution, and trophy hunting,” said Jeffrey
Flocken, Office Director, IFAW Washington, D.C. “Representing over 2 mill Read more »
The face-to-face survey of 1,880 people in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou,
Guilin, Harbin, Kunming and Shanghai was conducted by Horizon Key, one of
China’s pre-eminent public polling companies. Respondents, who
statistically represent th Read more »
Michael Wamithi, global elephants program manager for IFAW (International
Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org),
responds stating, “The recent decision by CITES [Convention on the International
Trade of Endangered Species] Conference Read more »
“Signs of climate change are all around us,” said IFAW D.C. Office Director
Jeff Flocken. “This is especially significant in the Artic, where ice habitat is
integral to polar bears and melting sea-ice sets the stage for drastic
p Read more »
The world’s leading international law experts and marine mammal scientists
have deemed the Government of Japan’s “scientific” whaling program to be fatally
flawed and in breach of numerous international treaties and
tribuna Read more »
We are very pleased that the verdict against the oil group Total, the Italian
certification company Rina, the Italian owner Giuseppe Savarese and Antonio
Pollara, chief executive of the Panship management company, will provide our
partner Bretagne 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 »
IFAW’s, (the International Fund for Animal Welfare, www.ifaw.org) research vessel, The Song of the Whale is Read more »
The Song of the Whale, IFAW’s research vessel, is designed to carry out noninvasive research to inform conservation, Read more »
Rather than providing any economic benefit, Canada’s commercial seal slaughter arguably represents a drain on Read more »
My initial thoughts when I was planning a second outing to Giraffe House Wildlife Awareness Center (GHWAC) for learners from Read more »
On May 21st, 2012, Dubai Customs and the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s office in Dubai signed a memorandum Read more »
At a time when whales face more threats than ever before, the conservation body set up to protect them is also in troubled Read more »
The following post was submitted by Jose Louies, who was one of the lead trainers for this session.
The rains just Read more »
More than 30 senior staff from different governmental agencies in Congo (Brazzaville) honed their skills and increased their Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Forest Economy and 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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