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Wildlife trade photos & video
Wildlife trade experts
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
The Middle East is a crossroad of international trade, connecting markets in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
It is also a transit Read more »
I was overwhelmed by the reaction to my blog posted from the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES 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 »
Just now I am attending the conference of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) on Mauritius.
This is a fishing agreement 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 »
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 »
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 »
IFAW has welcomed the 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 agree three proposals - two of which were proposed by the EU - Read more »
Several EU member states were today forced to vote against a proposal to give the already endangered polar bear more protection at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) after the European Commission failed to support it. Read more »
The EU delegation currently in Thailand at an international conference is actively derailing the polar bear’s best chance of survival. While the United States, supported by the Russian Federation, is hours away from securing vital protections 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 »
On the eve of the 16th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, IFAW is urging conservation NGOs to come together to discuss how they can improve the way they coordinate with e 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 »
China has historically been a significant destination for illicit trade in ivory and was identified as the single most Read more »
Conclusions:
Loopholes compounded by lack of enforcement resources and capacities mean that China's system and its Read more »
For this report, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) monitored the trade in ivory within, out of and into the Read more »
