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Was fantastic to be in the same room as Putin and Wen Jiabao and three other prime ministers in the bid to save the tiger. Read more »
As you know, the tiger is in trouble. That is why we are here at the International Tiger Forum in St. Petersburg. There are Read more »
A tiger has died in Sariska – a national reserve in India. Most likely the tiger was poisoned. Every animal’s Read more »
Bali, Titan and Java are now making their way to their new home at the Carolina Tiger Rescue sanctuary in Pittsboro, North Read more »
UPDATE, Nov. 10, 2010: IFAW team members will be talking about the move live at 4PM EST and again tomorrow 11.11.10 at 1PM Read more »
Right now we are in full swing organizing teams of all our staff and a few additional helpers to vaccinate as many of the Read more »
This post was filed by Vivek Menon – The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW) Regional Director for South Asia. Read more »
This post was filed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare's Emergency Relief team member Michael Booth reporting Read more »
By Nana Grosse-Woodley. August 2010
With the dry season beginning to bite now in Tsavo, more and more waterholes and dams Read more »
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 »
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 »
Whalers had been hunting since April, the earliest start to the whaling
season since Norway resumed commercial whaling in 1993, but they did not manage
to harpoon the full catch allowance of 796 set by the Norwegian Government. This
was despite tw Read more »
“While IFAW does not condone hunting we would welcome the adoption of
measures that would help to stamp out the rampant abuses we know to take place
in this industry,” said Jason Bell-Leask, Southern Africa Director of IFAW
(Internatio Read more »
This admission was made during closing remarks yesterday by Senior Counsel
for the zoos, Dr John Griffiths, when Administrative Appeals Tribunal President
the Honourable Justice Downes asked him to explain why the elephants (intended
for importati Read more »
The four young Western Lowland gorillas were illegally captured in Cameroon
and sent to the Taiping Zoo in Malaysia in 2002 using forged documentation.
Following their confiscation by the Government of Malaysia, the gorillas were
transferred to th Read more »
The legal appeal, by IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare), RSPCA
Australia and Humane Society International (HSI), will begin on Tuesday (11
October). It is expected to last less than two working weeks.
They are challenging a decision, Read more »
The Federal Government has upheld its long-held policy banning trophy hunting
of Australian native animals for export.
Senator Campbell has today ruled (6 October) against a proposal by the
Northern Territory Government to allow up to 25 crocodile Read more »
Benetting is one of more than 5,000 companion animals affected by Hurricane
Katrina, many of which are only now able to reunite with their owners who were
displaced by the disaster. Pedro Garnica and his wife and son evacuated out of
the hurricane Read more »
The theme of this year’s event – “Caring for Our Best Friends” – focuses on
dogs and cats and the problems they face due to cruelty and overpopulation. All
the materials, many interactive, are available for free at the Read more »
The Hurricane Katrina animals have hopscotched across the state of Louisiana;
this is their third relocation in three weeks. After their initial rescue from
the floods of New Orleans, they were brought to a temporary shelter in Gonzales,
then move 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 »
Final report for a survey for harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) of the Dogger Bank and southern North Sea conducted from Read more »
A consumer education and awareness campaign to stop ecologically destructive wildlife trafficking was launched in Trinidad Read more »
The Swiss Animal Protection Society, celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, held a wildlife conference in Zurich last Read more »
Douglas Zoo in Douglas AZ was closing. “People just aren't coming out," the zoo owner said. "People Read more »
Working in Amboseli is a pleasure and a privilege that I’m happily becoming accustomed to. I’ve explained the Read more »
We just celebrated a special anniversary in the history of the conservation movement. On November 16th, 1972 the UNESCO Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare was delighted to take part in a brand new UK festival celebrating all things whale Read more »
It’s often suggested that governments seek to release bad news when people are least likely to be looking, and by most Read more »
As we enter the mouth of the River Orwell bound for Song of the Whale’s berth back in Ipswich, here in the U.K., 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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