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Recently the U.S. government has been making various public statements aimed at addressing wildlife crime – the most Read more »
I’ll never forget the first time I was with Asian elephants in the wild in Kaziranga, Assam, India.
I was helping to Read more »
One hundred fifteen of the one hundred eighty penguins cared for by Brazil’s Instituto de Pesquisa e Reabilita Read more »
Well, the baby boom is finally coming to an end.
Although some females are still pregnant and will give birth in the coming Read more »
Three Asiatic black bear cubs rescued by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and local partner organization Read more »
GIVING TUESDAY: In South Africa, Community Led Animal Welfare program builds community like no other
“Ubuntu” is an African word meaning “humanity to others”. Directly translated, it says: “I am Read more »
While I was at the annual International Society for Anthrozoology conference in Cambridge, England, we screened a short film Read more »
On 23 October, 2012, The UAE Ministry of Education (MoE) gave the IFAW office in Dubai an award in recognition of our Read more »
Visitors to Amboseli National Park react differently, depending on the time of day or year that they tour - and with good 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 »
IWCの透明性と有効性を高める英国の提案が昨日採択されたばかりです Read more »
今後のIWCの信頼性と有効性を確かなものにするために不可欠な処置と Read more »
IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare www.ifaw.org) is urging delegates from the IWC’s 89 member countries to adopt a policy of greater openness and accountability to ensure the organisation runs effectively and to safeguard its credi Read more »
国際動物福祉基金 (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) はIWCに加盟している89ヵ国の代表団に対し、こ Read more »
Following widely reported accusations of corruption surrounding the meetings in recent years, IFAW is calling for greater openness and accountability at IWC to ensure it runs effectively and that the credibility of the forum is safeguarded.
The UK G Read more »
IFAW’s state-of-the-art Song of the Whale, which uses non-harmful methods to study whales, is currently in St Katharine Docks in London before IFAW’s team of whale experts sail to the 63rd annual IWC meeting to urge delegates to protect t Read more »
Jointly organised by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Livestock & Fishery Resources in Djibouti, the training aims to cover issues on status of species, magnitude of Read more »
The hunt, which runs from 01 July to 15 November, is the world’s second largest, next to Canada – which this year only managed to kill 38,000 seals of a total allowable catch (TAC) of 400,000 in 2011.
Namibia, in southern African, target Read more »
The RSPCA, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the League Against Cruel Sports believe that hunting is a sp Read more »
The second edition of ‘Black and Grey’ -Illegal Ivory in Japanese Markets, brings to the readers the fundamental Read more »
If the killing of the endangered Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsoniil) is to stop, the trade in shahtoosh, the wool culled Read more »
Recent qualitative observation of reduced ice presence on th eeast coast of Canada suggests that yearly ice coverage in this Read more »
CPHA is a broad-based campaign to end the cruel and unnecessary sports of fox, deer, hare and mink hunting with dogs. Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW- www.ifaw.org) announced today an emergency grant to rescue the last Read more »
As a keen runner, the opportunity to run the Boston Marathon for IFAW to raise awareness of the plight of elephants is a Read more »
• The document provides draft Decisions contained
in Annex 1 and proposed amendments to Resolution
Conf. 12.5 (Rev. Read more »
Inclusion of oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus,
in Appendix II with the following annotation:
The entry into Read more »
• The Polar bear has been recognized by Parties,
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations,
and leading Read more »
The document prepared by the Secretariat at the
request of the Standing Committee, first and foremost,
would delay the Read more »
The document submitted by Nigeria and Rwanda (CoP16 Doc. 53.3) contains two items for consideration by the Parties: a Read more »
IFAW fully supports the assertion in the proposal by Benin et al. that it is the fundamental responsibility of the Read more »
Parties are required to consider information provided by a Panel of Experts when making decisions about the
placement of 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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