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When the International Fund for Animal Welfare first requested access to some European Commission documents little did we Read more »
Recently, I met up with Steve Njumbi, Head of Programmes at the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Steve was trained Read more »
In recent years, the IFAW Seal Team has witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of climate change on harp seal pups in Read more »
On December 25, 2011, the International Fund for Animal Welfare office, Ministry of Environment and Water, Dubai Airports Read more »
Reflections from demand reduction workshops
In late 2011, a series of workshops tackling specifically the rising demand in Read more »
One thing I really like about the International Fund for Animal Welfare is that the organization never sleeps. At all times Read more »
As with many people, I find the end of the year a time of reflection. It’s a good time to look back over the year, Read more »
I am delighted to share with you these observations from two remarkable children and their family from the US who I am Read more »
I’m thrilled to tell you that the door to one of the largest markets for seal products has now been slammed shut 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 »
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 »
But the fundamental challenges of combating this illegal trade, including the
lack of a legal framework governing Internet trade, the anonymous nature of the
Internet and the exponential explosion of Internet usage,
remain. “Illegal wil Read more »
The face-to-face survey of 1,880 people in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou,
Guilin, Harbin, Kunming and Shanghai was conducted by Horizon Key, one of
China’s pre-eminent public polling companies. Respondents, who
statistically represent th Read more »
Michael Wamithi, global elephants program manager for IFAW (International
Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org),
responds stating, “The recent decision by CITES [Convention on the International
Trade of Endangered Species] Conference 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 »
The following post was submitted by Jose Louies, who was one of the lead trainers for this session.
The rains just Read more »
More than 30 senior staff from different governmental agencies in Congo (Brazzaville) honed their skills and increased their Read more »
As long as I have been leading the Northern Dogs Project, I have always wanted to take a walk out the back of where we host Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Forest Economy and Read more »
Summertime in India means a two-month break from regular school, a time when children have a lot of free time that drives Read more »
Readers of influential inside the beltway newspapers were met with eye-popping, full-page advertisements this morning that Read more »
While the ivory wars of the 1980’s more than halved the African elephant population in a short decade, we’re Read more »
In a world of economic uncertainty, elephant ivory has become a new investment vehicle in China, which coincides with Read more »
An unprecedented surge in ivory seizures occurred
in 2011. Media reported that 5,259 elephant tusks
were seized worldwide 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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