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After weeks of increasingly frenzied activity, boat maintenance, construction and testing of hydrophones, R/V Song of the Read more »
How do efficient cook stoves help protect elephant habitat?
You might not see the connection at first glance, but it makes Read more »
The loud voice of the parade commander and a booming brass band fill the air, competing with the melodies of chirping birds Read more »
Each time a family is reunited, everyone, the family and the volunteers, have tears in their eyes. It is a pretty special Read more »
It’s a little-known secret that in the lush paradise of Bali, dog meat restaurants exist.
The market for dog meat isn Read more »
Just now I am attending the conference of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) on Mauritius.
This is a fishing agreement Read more »
It’s been interesting times for those of us keeping an eye on the whaling situation in Iceland.
Two species of Read more »
At the request Central Oklahoma Humane Society (OK Humane), I arrived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma today to help them Read more »
Thanks to international outcry and vigorous campaigning by a coalition of animal welfare organizations including the Read more »
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 »
Take a moment to watch this video on the recent elephant collaring in Amboseli and learn more of IFAW’s partnership 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 »
Last week I shared a video overview from the first seal ban hearing at World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Watch Video »
In this video International Fund for Animal Welfare Director for International Agreements, Peter Pueschel Watch Video »
Warning: video contains graphic images of sealing activity.
The first set of hearings on the WTO challenge concerning the Watch Video »
In this brief video, the International Fund for Animal Welfare's North America Regional Director, Jeff Flocken, takes Watch Video »
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 »
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 »
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 »
IFAW celebrated the historic decision today by the 16th Conference of the Parties (CoP 16) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to give greater protection to sharks.
“This is a trem Read more »
As the 16th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok comes to a close, IFAW is celebrating an historic CoP that left polar bears in the cold but brought additional protection to Read more »
The preliminary submissions in this brief are aimed at correcting the misleading and incomplete manner in which Canada has ch 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 »
IFAW works from the concept of ‘adequate guardianship’,
which requires that an animal’s basic needs are me Read more »
All the organisations within the ICAM Coalition seek to
improve animal welfare as a common purpose, and as a
priority. Dog Read more »
Lethal methods of population control aim to eradicate or
significantly decrease cat populations through culling a
target nu Read more »
Modern elephants are the last surviving members
of a once diverse and widely distributed group
of mammals known as probosci Read more »
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 »
There’s more good news coming out of Manas National Park in Assam, India.
Mainao, the first rhino to be hand-reared Read more »
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia.
I 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 Read more »
Queen legend Brian May will address a mass gathering of badgers – or at least humans in badger masks – on London Read more »
After weeks of increasingly frenzied activity, boat maintenance, construction and testing of hydrophones, R/V Song of the Read more »
How do efficient cook stoves help protect elephant habitat?
You might not see the connection at first glance, but it makes Read more »
The loud voice of the parade commander and a booming brass band fill the air, competing with the melodies of chirping birds Read more »
Each time a family is reunited, everyone, the family and the volunteers, have tears in their eyes. It is a pretty special Read more »
Science is taking the lead to secure habitat for elephants and other wildlife in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park.
In 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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