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Six days in and we have completed two of our smaller survey blocks, the first close to the Hornsea wind farm and the second Read more »
The struggle to protect the marine region of North-west Australia is turning out like a kind of twisted David and Goliath Read more »
While in Bali, Indonesia last week, jet-setting fashionista Paris Hilton was struck by the suffering of the island’s Read more »
Last Monday, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) rescue teams assisted in an operation that rescued 175 dogs from a Read more »
Egypt’s Environment and Water Bodies police, the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Ministry of Read more »
This week the team onboard R/V Song of the Whale begin a project to survey the Dogger Bank, North Sea, for cetaceans, Read more »
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 »
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 »
In addition to bear cubs, affected species include bobcats, coyotes,
porcupines, and squirrels. People encountering injured and dehydrated wildlife
are asked to be careful. “Leave injured wildlife alone and call people who are
trained, Read more »
The event highlighted this summer’s cetacean survey of the eastern Mediterranean
Sea which began in May. Mahmoud Fouad of the Department of Natural Resources at
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment is among the 12 interns who are participati Read more »
Statistics from Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) show that to
date, 215,388 harp seals have been taken from the 270,000 harp seal quota for
2007. Final catch numbers will not be available until after the hunt closes and
all Read more »
Experts think these animals cannot be released. First of all, because there is
no rehabilitation center for Amur tigers in the Russian Far East.“It
was good we could timely start financing those orphaned tiger cubs. The last
winter was a ver Read more »
“CITES is a conservation convention designed to protect wildlife from the threat
of trade, not a tool to promote trade,” says Peter Pueschel, Global Head of
IFAW’s Wildlife Trade program. “We are heartened to see so many cou Read more »
The agreement allows Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to sell
additional ivory under strictly monitored CITES processes, but only those
government stockpiles officially registered prior to January 31, 2007.
“We are en Read more »
Grace Gabriel, Asia Regional Director for IFAW (International Fund for Animal
Welfare - www.ifaw.org) expressed her
delight, “We are extremely pleased that range states spoke up on behalf of their
tiger populations in the wild. Al Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The poachers rode into the park on horseback from Chad and Sudan, armed with automatic weapons and a single purpose: Kill as 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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