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Elkana is a bit of an outsider in the family because she doesn’t have any living female relatives, and she lost her Read more »
The U.S. is a country with nearly 78.2 million dogs. Last year, we spent almost $50 billion on our beloved companions, yet Read more »
My parents were sadly part of the significant minority who believed that you could get ivory without hurting the elephant Read more »
Whale family and pod members are separated from each other. Once removed from their natural environment, the whales are then Read more »
Despite the incredible challenges surrounding relief efforts in Libya at the moment, International Fund for Animal Welfare Read more »
The BBC has just reported that a volunteer IFAW hunt monitor filmed a fox being pursued by hounds on a railway track.
Sadly Read more »
From where I sit in Cape Town as the Director of IFAW’s Southern Africa operations and as the Elephant Programme Read more »
UPDATE: 9.6.11
Hi all - There is an update on the situation by way of press release here.
From the release:
"The Read more »
If that sounds like someone you have been looking for, Pups is your man... and he’s wondering where you are and why Read more »
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 »
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 »
IFAW will have their own dedicated channel on green.tv. IFAW’s channel
will be launched at the annual TV industry get-together in Cannes, MIP TV, where
green.tv tops the bill as part of the opening session 'Can Green TV be Primetime
TV Read more »
With a staff of only five individuals and a dedicated corps of more than 300
local volunteers, CCSN responds to 500-700 reports of stranded marine mammals
each year. Under the proposed agreement, CCSN, including its employees,
volunteers, and expe Read more »
New U.S. poll results on attitudes toward whaling show the vast majority of the
American public opposes commercial whaling and supports greater protection for
whales, while polling data from Japan shows that a sizeable majority of the
Japanese pub Read more »
Kyokuyo is a multinational seafood conglomerate that got its start in the 1930s
as a whaling company operating in the Antarctic. Although it sold its stock in
the Government of Japan’s whaling fleet last year, Kyokuyo has not cut its
connect Read more »
New U.S. poll results on attitudes toward whaling show the vast majority of the
American public opposes commercial whaling and supports greater protection for
whales, while polling data from Japan shows that a sizeable majority of the
Japanese pub Read more »
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) today announced that the last
opportunity to move the gorillas during optimal weather conditions – essential
for the welfare of the animals – had passed. The next opportu Read more »
Dubai is a major regional and global travel and commercial hub that offers IFAW
the opportunity to reach a large and diverse audience with its awareness
building and educational programs. Further, the U.A.E.’s regional and global
leadership Read more »
The team traveled by plane and helicopter and observed a single sealing vessel
as it began hunting seals on the opening day of the Gulf hunt. As expected,
sealers were shooting at seals on small ice pans from their boat. “What we saw
today w Read more »
Canada has allowed over one million seals to be killed in the past three years.
With this year’s commercial total allowable catch limit set at 270,000 seals,
this becomes the fourth consecutive year in which the government allocation has
exc 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 »
I was horrified to see the pictures just released of Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric taken from an African safari the Read more »
Wading through the past week’s non-stop media commemorations of 3/11 -- a devastating day that changed both the Read more »
In 2008, Russia’s Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service (Rosprirodnadzor) toughened the penalties Read more »
Two orphaned rhinos--Maju and Raja--are on their way back to the wild in northeast India, after several years under the care Read more »
With up to 400 elephants already butchered for their ivory, soldiers were in a deadly battle with poachers last week to Read more »
Faceless poachers and faceless elephants.
One group scurrying away with their bloodied tusks, hoping to sell their grim Read more »
The above slideshow contains photos of Maju and Raja, two young rhinos who were rehabilitated at the International Read more »
This post was filed by Mada Oha, our adminisrative staff person here in the Dubai. --EM
In January, the International Fund Read more »
The mass stranding event of common dolphins in Cape Cod that started in January 12, 2012 officially 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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