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Cause for celebration: Maino, the first rhino ever to be released into Manas kic
5th June 2013 Azzedine Downes
There’s more good news coming out of Manas National Park in Assam, India. Mainao, the first rhino to be hand-reared Read more »
Diane and Kelly in Oklahoma
4th June 2013 Shannon Walajtys
As the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Disaster Response team started to demobilize from Oklahoma last week, Read more »
3rd June 2013 Anna Fillipova
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia. I Read more »
IFAW UK office staff, some dressed in costume, during the March on June 1st.ac
3rd June 2013 Jordi Casamitjana
When I put my brand new white trousers on this morning and I noticed how well they looked with my black and white IFAW T- Read more »
SOTW Team leaning into the swell in the Bay of Biscay, en route to the Mediterra
30th May 2013 Conor Ryan
After weeks of increasingly frenzied activity, boat maintenance, construction and testing of hydrophones, R/V Song of the Read more »
I Found A Way for my fellow runners to help animals, join our team!
29th May 2013 Nina Price
I grew up in South Africa with a German mother. Germans are notoriously adventurous and very fond of any adventure that is Read more »
Small changes yield big benefits: The improved cooking stoves have been installe
29th May 2013 Sheren Shrestha
How do efficient cook stoves help protect elephant habitat? You might not see the connection at first glance, but it makes Read more »
The graduates with Chairman Leturesh
28th May 2013 Evan Mkala
The loud voice of the parade commander and a booming brass band fill the air, competing with the melodies of chirping birds Read more »
The koala is one of Australia’s most recognisable animals yet, the species is in
27th May 2013 Josey Sharrad
According to a global IFAW poll, the koala is one of Australia’s most recognisable and most loved animals.  Yet, Read more »
  A video update from Geneva, Switzerland on Canada's WTO challenge to the EU seal import ban by IFAW's EU Watch Video »
15th March 2013
In order to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to reinforce the protection of the forest elephants that Watch Video »
19th March 2013
Take a moment to watch this video on the recent elephant collaring in Amboseli and learn more of IFAW’s partnership Watch Video »
14th March 2013
In the video above, IFAW CEO Azzedine Downes offers some thoughts from the floor of the CITES CoP 16 meeting in Bangkok, Watch Video »
8th March 2013
Last week I shared a video overview from the first seal ban hearing at World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Watch Video »
6th March 2013
In this video International Fund for Animal Welfare Director for International Agreements, Peter Pueschel Watch Video »
5th March 2013
Warning: video contains graphic images of sealing activity. The first set of hearings on the WTO challenge concerning the Watch Video »
5th March 2013
In this brief video, the International Fund for Animal Welfare's North America Regional Director, Jeff Flocken, takes Watch Video »
4th March 2013
The International Fund for Animal Welfare's Peter Pueschel gives us an update from the floor of CITES CoP 16. Watch Video »
Elephant Tourism under Fire as  Handler Dies
18th April 2013
The trampling to death of an elephant handler in South Africa this week has again thrown into sharp focus the dangers of the elephant-back safari industry. On Monday an experienced handler at the Elephant Sanctuary, near Hartebeespoort Dam, North Wes Read more »
12th April 2013
  The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has welcomed the announcement last night by the International Court of Justice of hearing dates for Australia’s case against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. “This case has be Read more »
Canada’s Commercial Seal Hunt Opens Despite No Quota, No Demand
9th April 2013
Canada’s commercial seal hunt opens off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador today, despite a lack of demand for seal products and restrictions on seal products in 34 countries. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) qu Read more »
Emergency cash sent to Cyprus to save animals threatened by starvation during fi
8th April 2013
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) has sent desperately needed emergency funds to Cyprus to help feed animals facing starvation because of the current financial crisis. Donations to Cypriot shelters have completely Read more »
First wild rhino calf born in India to a mother hand-raised by IFAW-WTI
8th April 2013
A healthy, female calf has been born in Manas National Park, to a rhinoceros hand-raised by IFAW-WTI as an orphan and moved to the park as part of a species reintroduction. “This is the first calf born in the wild in India from a rhino that had Read more »
IFAW calls on Japan to end its cruel whaling for good as fleet returns with lowe
5th April 2013
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) is urging Japan to abandon its dying whaling industry as the fleet returns to port with its lowest Antarctic catch since ‘scientific whaling’ began in 1987. In December last ye Read more »
archive photo © IFAW/a.dintino
20th March 2013
Protection for elephants, or just an elaborate sham? That’s the question being asked after trucks transporting four young elephants were intercepted while transferring the calves to a “rehabilitation” centre last week. According to Read more »
Killing Spree Slaughters 86 Elephants in Chad
18th March 2013
Poachers in Chad have slaughtered 86 elephants, including 33 pregnant females, in less than a week. The elephants were killed close to the Chad border with Cameroon and their ivory hacked out. It is the worst killing spree of elephants since early 20 Read more »
18th March 2013
IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare) reports that in just the last two weeks over 18,900 people have demanded the Federal Government protect Kangaroo Island’s precious marine life from the dangers of oil and gas exploration. Environ Read more »
Amicus Brief: European Communities — Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Ma
The preliminary submissions in this brief are aimed at correcting the misleading and incomplete manner in which Canada has ch Read more »
PROJECT WEB AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IVORY TRADE OVER THE INTERNET WITHIN THE E
INTERPOL’s Project Web was launched following studies by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), which conclu Read more »
Saving animals
It’s been more than 40 years since a small group of concerned citizens banded together to stop Canada’s cruel com Read more »
The welfare basis for euthanasia of dogs and cats and policy development
IFAW works from the concept of ‘adequate guardianship’, which requires that an animal’s basic needs are me Read more »
HUMANE DOG POPULATION MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE
All the organisations within the ICAM Coalition seek to improve animal welfare as a common purpose, and as a priority. Dog Read more »
Humane cat population management guidance
Lethal methods of population control aim to eradicate or significantly decrease cat populations through culling a target nu Read more »
Adequate guardianship pet care poster
Download our poster illustrating the requirements for adequate guardianship. Read more »
ELEPHANTS & IVORY
Modern elephants are the last surviving members of a once diverse and widely distributed group of mammals known as probosci Read more »
IFAW CITES E-commerce and E-permitting
The Internet has become the world’s biggest marketplace, one that is open for business 24 hours a day, seven days a wee Read more »
A mixed group of common and striped dolphins taken using a GoPro mounted on the
7th June 2013 by Luke O'Connor
Eleven days in and we’ve reached the southern coast of Portugal, where we’ve finally been able to shed the Read more »
Let’s find a way to make it a quiet world oceans day
7th June 2013 by Matt Collis
Today is world oceans day. On World Oceans Day people around the planet celebrate and honour the body of water which links Read more »
Cause for celebration: Maino, the first rhino ever to be released into Manas kic
5th June 2013 by Azzedine Downes
There’s more good news coming out of Manas National Park in Assam, India. Mainao, the first rhino to be hand-reared Read more »
Diane and Kelly in Oklahoma
4th June 2013 by Shannon Walajtys
As the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Disaster Response team started to demobilize from Oklahoma last week, Read more »
3rd June 2013 by Anna Fillipova
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia. I Read more »
IFAW UK office staff, some dressed in costume, during the March on June 1st.ac
3rd June 2013 by Jordi Casamitjana
When I put my brand new white trousers on this morning and I noticed how well they looked with my black and white IFAW T- Read more »
2012 SOTW Azores Research USA cruise report March 13
1st June 2013 by
The IFAW research vessel Song of the Whale (SOTW) left the Azores at the beginning of May bound for the north-east coast of Read more »
We Will Brock You – Brian May to Address London March against the Badger Cull
31st May 2013 by
Queen legend Brian May will address a mass gathering of badgers – or at least humans in badger masks – on London Read more »
SOTW Team leaning into the swell in the Bay of Biscay, en route to the Mediterra
30th May 2013 by Conor Ryan
After weeks of increasingly frenzied activity, boat maintenance, construction and testing of hydrophones, R/V Song of the 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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