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Wildlife trade photos & video
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Our animal action education programme helps children learn and care about animals
The dangers of wildlife trade
The global wildlife trade, legal and illegal, can:
- Threaten biodiversity and risk losing endangered species forever
- Spread infectious disease to livestock and humans
- Cause needless suffering to animals, as well as humans.
Worldwide, 7,725 species of animals, from insects and birds to gorillas, elephants and reptiles, are considered at risk of extinction. That’s 20% of all known mammal species and 12% of known species of birds threatened with being lost forever.
IFAW protects animals from illegal wildlife trade through:
- Strengthening international agreements
- Training wildlife law enforcement officers
- Ending the illegal trade in tiger parts and elephant ivory
- Investigating Internet wildlife trafficking
- Educating consumers to reject products made from wildlife
- IFAW and INTERPOL, working together to fight wildlife crime
Wildlife trade news
See our new "I Found A Way" sixty second campaign spot above.
This year, IFAW Australia celebrates 30 years of Read more »
The past couple of weeks have witnessed several awful reminders of the global reach of the insidious illegal wildlife trade Read more »
When the headlines scream daily about the massacre of elephants for their ivory, or the appalling cruelty of rhino poaching Read more »
After an 8 hour flight from Paris, we arrived in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo.
The city has close to Read more »
This brief video above from Euronews describes the scene at the Paris Natural History Museum.
If there’s any doubt 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 »
In order to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to reinforce the protection of the forest elephants that Watch Video »
In the video above, IFAW CEO Azzedine Downes offers some thoughts from the floor of the CITES CoP 16 meeting in Bangkok, Watch Video »
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) is organizing specialized training on prevention of wildlife trafficking and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The workshop i Read more »
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 »
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 »
A report released today by INTERPOL with support from The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) revealed hundreds of ivory items conservatively valued at approximately EUR 1,450,000 for sale during a two-week period on Internet auction sites i Read more »
Urgent, interactive and as close as your nearest internet link, that’s IFAW’s Unveiling the Ivory Trade, an online report and iPad app that highlights the escalating illegal ivory trade.
“Right now the quickest way to spread t Read more »
Preview images here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/animalrescueblog/sets/72157632893025222/
High resolution hand-out images available for download by signing up at www.ifawimages.com including:
- polar bear, tiger and elephant and ivory b-roll
- pol Read more »
The illicit trade in wildlife is not only a serious global environmental crime with profoundly negative impacts for endangere Read more »
INTERPOL’s Project Web was launched following studies by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), which conclu Read more »
It’s been more than 40 years since a small group of concerned citizens banded together to stop Canada’s cruel com Read more »
See our new "I Found A Way" sixty second campaign spot above.
This year, IFAW Australia celebrates 30 years of Read more »
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) is organizing specialized training on prevention of Read more »
The past couple of weeks have witnessed several awful reminders of the global reach of the insidious illegal wildlife trade Read more »
When the headlines scream daily about the massacre of elephants for their ivory, or the appalling cruelty of rhino poaching Read more »
