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Last week I represented the International Fund for Animal Welfare at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Read more »
At this year’s 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP16) to the Convention on International Trade in Read more »
It was the middle of December around 7 pm, and I was heading to a meeting when I received a call from Erika Flores telling Read more »
Jim Nyamu cut a lonely figure these last two weeks, as he trekked nearly 500 kms from coastal Mombasa inland to Nairobi, in Read more »
Here at the International Fund for Animal Welfare, we have long wanted to extend our impact for dogs and cats beyond our Read more »
As David McNeill of The Economist magazine introduced our panel in Tokyo to a packed room at the Foreign Correspondents Read more »
I’m in Geneva for the first round of WTO hearings on Canada and Norway’s challenge of EU regulations Read more »
The rate at which sharks are vanishing from the world’s oceans is reaching a tipping point.
Many shark populations Read more »
Monday February 18th was the first of three days of hearings at the World Trade Organization (WTO), where Canada and Norway Read more »
IFAW President & CEO Azzedine Downes discusses some of the challenges and opportunities we face in helping to protect Watch Video »
This week during a visit to Cozumel, Mexico, our team discovered a dog in desperate need of help. Covered in used motor oil Watch Video »
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia.
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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 »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW, www.ifaw.org) is calling for Environment Minister Tony Burke to list koalas as a threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act). Minister Burke is due Read more »
A new nationwide survey shows that 77 percent of Americans across the political spectrum agree that Congress and the Administration should adopt a broad whale conservation program, and 89 percent believe that the U.S. should help enforce the global b Read more »
IFAW welcomes the Western Australian Government’s decision today to protect the biggest calving area for humpback whales in the southern hemisphere by creating the Camden Sound Marine Park.
“This is an important first step towards increas Read more »
All around Australia oil and gas companies are closing in on vital whale habitats. Any day now leases covering endangered blue whale habitat and right next to calving grounds for endangered southern right whales will be handed over to oil and gas com Read more »
Government officials, conservationists, animal rescuers and celebrities joined in a celebration today to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Beijing Raptor Rescue Center (BRRC)—China’s only specialized raptor rescue and rehabilitation fac Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) condemns the Canadian government's decision to provide $3.6 million in bailout money to a Norwegian company to stockpile seal pelts. The animal welfare group says that using Newfoundland tax dollar Read more »
A new app for iPad and iPhone combines science and technology to help save critically endangered North Atlantic right whales by reducing threats of collisions with large ships along the East Coast of North America. Read more »
On Monday, Nikita, a 7-year-old white tiger and Tasha, a 10-year-old cougar are being loaded onto a rescue trailer in Ohio and moving 800 miles away to their new home at The Wildcat Sanctuary. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW- www.ifaw Read more »
At least 50 per cent of the elephant population of Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park is dead. They have been killed in a bloody poaching spree by horseback bandits whose deadly mission has continued virtually unhindered for eight weeks than Read more »
The illegal trade in dogs is entwined with the legal trade, which makes it possible for large international networks to emerg Read more »
The annual hunt for the Cape fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus occurs at breeding colonies situated along Namibia Read more »
Recently, I had a chat with Céline Sissler-Bienvenu, the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW ) Read more »
Take a moment to watch this video on the recent elephant collaring in Amboseli and learn more of IFAW’s partnership Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare provides training, equipment and insurance to rangers and forest staff who work on Read more »
I was completely shocked to hear that 86 elephants were killed close to the Chad border with Cameroon and their ivory Read more »
Poachers in Chad have slaughtered 86 elephants, including 33 pregnant females, in less than a week.
The elephants were Read more »
IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare) reports that in just the last two weeks over 18,900 people have demanded Read more »
Today, we had our second flight to search for seals. For three days all of us have been wondering where the seals are and Read more »
In order to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to reinforce the protection of the forest elephants that Read more »
Many years ago, Masha Vorontsova, from the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Russia office, suggested to Oleg 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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