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My two favorite things about my job are meeting our donors in person, and visiting our field offices around the world.
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Dr. Robinson talks about dolphins stranded on Cape Cod: MyFoxBOSTON.com
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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 »
Public health officers in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, are taking action against people who keep wild animals in their homes 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 »
Help Networks is designed so that junior high school students (between the
ages of 12 and 15) can get to know the main threats facing animals all over the
world, become sensitized to respect, and understand the social, environmental
and ecological Read more »
Touhey and her team of four full-time staff joined IFAW last summer after
working as a separate organization for nearly ten years. The stranding network,
which has a dedicated corps of more than 350 local volunteers, responds to
approximately 500 Read more »
“We are very pleased that the Russian government is taking steps towards
ending the whitecoat hunt,” remarked Masha Vorontsova, Director of IFAW Russia.
“We acknowledge this step as an important achievement for animal welfare;
ho Read more »
“This is great news and a brave step by Government in upholding its mandate as custodian and caretaker of our wildlife. Now what is needed is to ensure the law is so tightly drafted that it leaves no gaps to be exploited by commercial operators Read more »
The animals, which were hand-raised at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation
and Conservation (CWRC) in Kaziranga National Park, were translocated yesterday,
by truck, 450 kilometers to Manas National Park. Manas National Park is a World
Heritage Read more »
The bears were hand raised at the Center for Bear Rehabilitation and
Conservation (CBRC), a project jointly managed by IFAW, WTI, and the Arunachal
Pradesh Forest Department. This unique rehabilitation center, located in
northeast India's Arunacha Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Rather than providing any economic benefit, Canada’s commercial seal slaughter arguably represents a drain on Read more »
My initial thoughts when I was planning a second outing to Giraffe House Wildlife Awareness Center (GHWAC) for learners from Read more »
On May 21st, 2012, Dubai Customs and the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s office in Dubai signed a memorandum Read more »
At a time when whales face more threats than ever before, the conservation body set up to protect them is also in troubled 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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