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IFAW has partnered with the UNDP in Bosnia to help communities humanely manage their roaming dog populations. The Read more »
My two favorite things about my job are meeting our donors in person, and visiting our field offices around the world.
I Read more »
Dr. Robinson talks about dolphins stranded on Cape Cod: MyFoxBOSTON.com
Here is a round up of video and news stories from Read more »
Following a week-long meeting on whale conservation with the International Fund for Animal Welfare whale team in Reykjavik, Read more »
Using cute baby animals as mascots for entertainment or commercial promotions makes me hopping mad!
The most recent case was Read more »
Twenty years ago, at the now famous “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, 100 world leaders wrote a prescription for Read more »
In Sydney the first few weeks of the year are a great time to be at work – seriously. It’s time to regroup, get Read more »
In a ‘comment’ posted on Nature.com, authors Christopher Costello, Leah R. Gerber and Steven Gaines argue the Read more »
As A Shawl to Die For, a documentary on Vimeo, amply shows, it’s possible to conserve wildlife while also helping 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 »
IFAW worked with local group Fundación Patagonia Natural (FPN) and the
Argentine government in the rescue of 200 threatened Magellanic penguins and
other birds including Steamer ducks, Silvery grebes, cormorants and Great
grebes reaching Read more »
In March the Metropolitan Police confirmed that they were intending to cut
core funding for two of the four posts within the wildlife crime unit due to
police budget constraints. However, after receiving 6,000 letters and emails
from members of th Read more »
Delegates gathered in the West African country of Mali’s capital for a
two-day meeting to discuss how they will pave the way forward for elephants
following decisions at the 14th Conference of the Parties of CITES (Convention
on Internationa Read more »
The African elephant range states included Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina
Faso, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana,
Liberia, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Mali and Kenya Read more »
The campaign aims to protect endangered wildlife species from the growing illegal commercial wildlife trade around the world. IFAW’s approach to combating illegal wildlife trade in the Middle East and North Africa region is to work in co- Read more »
The delegates are from Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone,
Guinea Bissau, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Central
African Republic, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya.
“IFAW is proud to stand Read more »
The decision, issued by Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of California, orders all parties to negotiate the
specific terms of the injunction, which will offer some relief to marine mammals
from potential Read more »
The badly mutilated body of the female elephant was found at the site along
with an aborted male foetus, suggesting that she was the first to be hit while
leading the herd. According to B Ramakrishnan, Field Officer with the Wildlife
Trust of Indi Read more »
“Polar bears are already facing potentially catastrophic threats from global
warming, vanishing habitats, toxic pollution, and trophy hunting,” said Jeffrey
Flocken, Office Director, IFAW Washington, D.C. “Representing over 2 mill 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 »
The preliminary submissions in this brief are aimed at correcting the misleading and incomplete manner in which Canada has ch Read more »
INTERPOL have arrested more than 200 people, seized almost 2 tonnes of contraband ivory, 20kg of rhino horn and military Read more »
The vet component is the highest profile part of the Northern Dogs Project.
Over the ten years that we have been Read more »
Wildlife law enforcement experts from Asia, Africa and the United States discussed regional and international enforcement Read more »
In some ways, elephants are no different than you and me. They recognize themselves as individuals and as close-knit family Read more »
Today a debate will begin in the Canadian Senate on Senator Mac Harb’s bill to end commercial sealing.
A rational Read more »
“Ethics is about knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do” Read more »
As part of the Northern Dogs Project this year I invited a dog trainer/behaviourist who has worked with many of the dogs Read more »
IFAW’s, (the International Fund for Animal Welfare, www.ifaw.org) research vessel, The Song of the Whale is Read more »
The Song of the Whale, IFAW’s research vessel, is designed to carry out noninvasive research to inform conservation, 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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