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Every year police officers and conservation and animal welfare organisations meet to talk about how we can work together to Read more »
Today is my favourite day of the year. Today we celebrated our annual International Fund for Animal Welfare Animal Action Read more »
Being in the first Peace Corps program in Swaziland, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. Life in a small Read more »
Last week, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act was marked up and agreed to by the House Natural Read more »
In November the Convention for Migratory Species (CMS) will meet in Bergen, Norway to discuss and hopefully improve Read more »
Let’s be clear, the threats to marine life from the oil and gas industry are real. Let’s start with the Read more »
With more and more scientists finding an accelerated shrinking of Arctic habitat, and on-going attempts by single-minded US Read more »
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to testify before a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives’ Read more »
Unusually heavy monsoon rains have put entire towns in Pakistan under water, displaced millions of people, washed crop Read more »
IFAW President & CEO Azzedine Downes discusses some of the challenges and opportunities we face in helping to protect Watch Video »
This week during a visit to Cozumel, Mexico, our team discovered a dog in desperate need of help. Covered in used motor oil Watch Video »
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia.
I Watch Video »
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 »
Shark fishing is mainly carried out with drift gill nets measuring close to
two kilometers long, as well as long lines of up to 70 kilometers in length with
thousands of hooks. The drift gill nets have been called walls of death because
they catch Read more »
The snapshot survey conducted in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, the
Netherlands, France, Canada and the USA* tracked over 2,200 elephant ivory items
listed on eBay Web sites and found that more than 90% of the listings breached
even eBay Read more »
Legislation to close the loophole in the law was introduced by U.S.
Representatives Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.). Similar
legislation is expected to be introduced in the Senate by U.S. Senator John
Kerry (D-Mass.).
“Polar Read more »
“The main focus of the course is to provide participants with the skills
necessary to safely and effectively conduct successful whale and dolphin
watching excursions,” said Dr. Joth Singh, Trinidad-born Director of Wildlife
and Habitat Read more »
“The main focus of the course is to provide participants with the skills
necessary to safely and effectively conduct successful whale and dolphin
watching excursions,” said Dr. Joth Singh, Trinidad-born Director of Wildlife
and Habitat Read more »
As thousands of travel industry heavyweights from across the globe gather at the
annual tourism Indaba in Durban this weekend, a new report released by IFAW
(International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) shows a marked upswing in the Read more »
IFAW Global Whale Program Manager Patrick Ramage and his 12-year-old son Henry
will join Cape Air pilot Ken Johnson in a Cape Air Cessna 402 airplane painted
to show the beauty of the humpback whales. The plane will touch down in major
cities acro Read more »
As the 2007 International Whaling Commission meetings commence in Alaska, the
advice by the Sydney Legal Panel clearly outlines legal channels the Australian
Government can take to stop the Government of Japan from whaling, under any
guise, in the Read more »
As the 2007 International Whaling Commission meetings commence in Alaska, the
advice by the Sydney Legal Panel clearly outlines legal channels the Australian
Government can take to stop the Government of Japan from whaling, under any
guise, in the 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 »
All around Australia oil and gas companies are closing in on vital whale habitats. Any day now leases covering endangered Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants to track their Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) condemns the decision by the Canadian province of Newfoundland to provide Read more »
Government officials, conservationists, animal rescuers and celebrities joined in a celebration today to mark the 10-year Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants--six males and Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) condemns the Canadian government's decision to provide $3.6 million in Read more »
Imagine a future in which endangered whales could use iPads and iPhones to call captains on the bridge of large ships and Read more »
Every year in my hands gets the treasure. Precious, beautiful, sincere children's drawings, each written with love, care 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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