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CLAW Director Cora Bailey responded to a call about a male vervet monkey that wa
12th June 2013 Cora Bailey
What’s a normal week for you? I often get asked this question, and am always at a loss to answer. For Community Led Read more »
Ready for dinner: a rescued elephant calf eagerly awaits her next bottle
10th June 2013 Sheren Shrestha
The first I saw of her was her trunk peeping out of a window. It’s a rather strange behavior…like she is Read more »
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 »
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 »
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3rd June 2013
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia. I Watch Video »
8th April 2013
In this brief video above you can hear the IFAW-WTI team member and in this instance also camera person, Bhaskar Choudhury Watch Video »
1st April 2013
Toma, seen taking her first steps in the video above, is one of six orphaned bear cubs recently rescued in Russia and Watch Video »
22nd February 2013
Last Thursday and Friday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge successfully Watch Video »
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Endangered Amur Tiger  Released to the Wild in Far East Russia
13th May 2013
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 »
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 »
Archive photo ©IIFAW
14th February 2013
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW- www.ifaw.org) announced today an emergency grant to rescue the last remaining 10 big cats from Riverglen Tiger Sanctuary near Mountainburg, Arkansas. The funds are being used to build temporary enclos Read more »
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4th November 2012
The ASPCA® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), at the request of the Ocean County Health Department and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department in Toms River, N.J., has dispatched its disaster response team to co Read more »
IFAW rushes animal rescue and sheltering teams to Gulf Coast following Hurricane
31st August 2012
Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) have mobilized teams to Alexandria, Louisiana and Waveland, Mississippi to assist in animal rescue and sheltering efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac that made land Read more »
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Saving animals
6th March 2013 by
It’s been more than 40 years since a small group of concerned citizens banded together to stop Canada’s cruel com Read more »
Victories For Animals
6th November 2012 by
Timeline of  IFAW major victories from 1969 - present Read more »
Protecting Bears Around the World
10th August 2012 by
Around the world, safe wild places for bears are disappearing. Mankind is destroying bear habitat at an alarming rate, and to Read more »
Disaster Preparation Tips for Pets
11th July 2012 by
IFAW works with local communities to help them better prepare for future disasters. You can help by doing your part to prepar Read more »
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29th July 2002 by
The stranded whales were discovered at six o’clock in the morning as low tide was approaching on the North side of Read more »
4th April 2002 by
The chimpanzee, nicknamed “Commando” and of the sub-species Schwienfurthii, is roughly two years of age, based Read more »
22nd January 2001 by
IFAW formed its specialist international oiled wildlife team, headed by Jay Holcomb of the International Bird Rescue Read more »
16th August 2000 by
As of today, more than 11,000 individuals have donated the equivalent of 39,614 volunteer days to assist with the rescue Read more »
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