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1. Hussein Ture, one of Kenya's most notorious elephant poachers, was shot dead last month by the Kenya Wildlife Read more »
As welfare minded people, I think you will find interest in this disturbing video and will hopefully share your concerns to Read more »
X-ray of an injured loon that suffered 6 pellets to the under part of it's body. (Property of Tufts University) Read more »
A juvenile one-horned female rhino acclimates to the crate that will be used to transport her to her new "wild Read more »
A crate containing one of two juvenile one-horned female rhinos is lifted into a truck before the 13 hour drive. Read more »
A juvenile one-horned female rhino at an IFAW funded rehab center in India, grazing before her long-awaited move to Read more »
1. As Tet, the end of the lunar year in Vietnam arrives, celebrities are speaking up against the use of wildlife Read more »
This video features the rescue efforts of a rehabilitation team at SANCCOB (South African National Foundation for the Read more »
A seal pup during rehabilitation at the Marine Mammal Center located in the Marin Headlands of Northern California 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 »
A tigress named Zolushka (Russian for Cinderella) was successfully released to the wild by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) jointly with the Phoenix Fund, Special Inspection Tiger, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecol Read more »
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 »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) has condemned an apparent decision to resume the cruel practice of harpooning endangered fin whales in Iceland.
Kristjan Loftsson, the lone Icelandic whaler responsible for slaughtering 28 Read more »
Poachers, aided by game rangers, have killed every single rhino in the Mozambique section of one of Southern Africa’s most vaunted transfrontier parks.
Media today report 15 rhino in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park were killed last mon Read more »
The European General Court today upheld the EU trade regulation on seal products. In a strongly-worded and crystal clear decision the court dismissed any concerns that either the EU seal trade regulation, or its implementation, lacked a legal basis. Read more »
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 »
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) questions why t Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Conservationists worldwide, including experts with the
International Fund for Animal Welfare (www.ifaw.org), expressed Read more »
IFAW is among the first to respond to the floods in Illinois. We are working with our friends and partners from the Read more »
Esta semana llegué a Santiago, Chile con el propósito de asistir a la 60a reunión de la Comisión Ballenera Internacional ( Read more »
The Coalition’s chairman, Mali Minister for Environment, Aghatam AG
Alhassane, said, “We need to discuss Read more »
I wanted to take a minute to clarify IFAW's position on whaling. Japan works pretty hard to compare their Read more »
The International Whaling Commission will weigh a partial lifting of a longstanding moratorium on commercial whale hunting Read more »
Japanese police on Friday arrested two Greenpeace members who had alleged corruption in the country's controversial whaling Read more »
There is a growing trend for products to carry some type of eco-label that certifies the resource is sustainable. It's Read more »
(WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 19) – Congress voted late yesterday to pass
House Concurrent Resolution 350, calling on the U.S. to 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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