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I was in Beijing last week to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Read more »
And so it begins…day one of the Canadian commercial seal hunt in the Northern Gulf of St Lawrence
The International Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants to track their Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants--six males and 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 »
Earlier this month, I had a chance to travel to the Middle East and to visit the International Fund for Animal Welfare Read more »
This year the International Fund for Animal Welfare Middle East and North Afrcia office engaged fourth and fifth grade Read more »
Almost eight months after war exploded all around them, the animals at the Tripoli Zoo have finally found peace.
The Read more »
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 »
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 »
5日間の会議中、トラ、ゾウ、カメ、サメ、鳥、ゴリラに関する議題と Read more »
The rise of the Internet is contributing to the rapid growth
of illegal trade in wildlife, which is having a devastating effect on animals
and ecosystems. Fast, convenient and anonymous, trading of wildlife on the
Internet is posing a major challe Read more »
日本の捕鯨母船日新丸は、例年行われる盛大な出港式を中止して、昨 Read more »
The birds were seized by the local road police. The
Gyrfalcons had been transported in a lorry of the local construction workers,
the birds were then wrapped with fabric bandages with non-transparent caps on
their heads – a typical “sm Read more »
The three former
sales totaled an estimated 60 tons (55 tonnes) of ivory. According to media
reports, approximately USD $7MIL was yielded as a result by these three
countries combined. This is merely a fraction of what such amounts of raw ivory
w Read more »
Yesterday, in a mercy mission to
Dyer
Island, officials rescued
an initial 35 chicks and more will likely be
collected from the island in the coming days. Dyer Island,
situated about eight kilometres offshore from Gansbaai in the Western Cape, i Read more »
Both China and
Japan have been approved as trading
partners for this ivory and are known to be among the world’s largest illegal
ivory markets. The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) Elephants Program D Read more »
eBay’s decision was announced just hours before the release
of IFAW’s latest investigative report showing Internet trade in wildlife poses a
significant and immediate threat to the survival of elephants and many other
endangered specie Read more »
The 57th
session of the Standing Committee for the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES) ruled just months ago that China was fit to become a trading partner for the
ivory, while Japan was previously approved. Both
natio 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 »
IFAW’s Brian Sharp, Stranding Coordinator, sits down with Fox 25 News to talk about the historic finding Read more »
The sun shines on the righteous, they say, and it has certainly been shining down on IFAW's state of the art sailing Read more »
This post was filed from the field by the International Fund for Animal Welfare Western Grey Whale Research team Read more »
Dhara, the elephant calf, was less than a year old. She was found alone, orphaned during the severe monsoon floods that hit Read more »
Saturday July 28 will go down in history as being an extraordinarily good day for whales in Iceland. More than 200 long- Read more »
When the rains came after the 2009 drought in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, the vegetation grew and the elephant Read more »
Bill Maher wrote to the interim leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, Bob Rae, in early July and the two have been having Read more »
This post was filed from the field by the International Fund for Animal Welfare Western Grey Whale Research team Read more »
A state-of-the-art whale research vessel has returned to Icelandic waters to carry out further vital, non-invasive research 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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