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Last Monday, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) rescue teams assisted in an operation that rescued 175 dogs from a Read more »
Egypt’s Environment and Water Bodies police, the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and the Ministry of Read more »
This week the team onboard R/V Song of the Whale begin a project to survey the Dogger Bank, North Sea, for cetaceans, Read more »
Today we released a special report on Australia’s Last Great Whale Haven – the North West Marine Region. Read more »
Animals introduced as pets, bait or as food sometimes escape or are purposefully released from captivity. Sometimes, those Read more »
Nearly all the world’s remaining wild gorillas and chimpanzees live in Central and West Africa and several key Read more »
Today we heard that the Toronto Zoo is planning on separating Pedro and Buddy, two male African penguins that paired up and Read more »
On Friday, November 4, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and five other major environmental and animal welfare Read more »
If you thought that the illegal ivory trade was something that happened in far away places in Africa and Asia, then the news 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 »
A video update from Geneva, Switzerland on Canada's WTO challenge to the EU seal import ban by IFAW's EU 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 »
While claims have previously been made by the CITES (Convention on the
International Trade of Endangered Species) Secretariat that Japan no longer has
significant involvement in the ivory trade industry, this 2.8 ton seizure
clearly disproves such Read more »
The statement has been welcomed by IFAW as a sign of the growing opposition
to Canada’s cruel commercial seal hunt, which is now the biggest marine mammal
hunt in the world. During last year’s hunt more than 350,000 seals were killed
a Read more »
Ramage this week commences a series of trips to advance IFAW’s campaign
against commercial whaling. He will be visiting Iceland from February 10 to 15,
Washington, DC from February 26 to March 1, and Tokyo, Japan from March 14 to
20, meeting Read more »
The Defra document, Protecting Whales - A global responsibility, was showcased
at an event held yesterday on IFAW’s non-invasive marine research vessel, Song
of the Whale. It is endorsed in a foreword by Prime Minister Tony Blair and the
nat Read more »
The rhinos, female calves nicknamed Manasi and Roje, were rescued from the
floodwaters that annually spill over the banks of the Brahmaputra River. The
pair, both three years old, were rescued in the summer of 2004 and rehabilitated
at the Center Read more »
“The Commission’s reply provides a description of the current EU legislative
framework applied to this issue and an analysis of how to possibly address the
Parliament’s request”, said IFAW’s political campaigner in the Read more »
Over the past few years, IFAW’s EU Office - together with the Belgian NGO GAIA -
has been calling for a national ban in Belgium.“We would like to thank
the Belgian Government, especially the three ministers involved in the
initiative, Read more »
The crackdown started in Beijing at the end of October. In response IFAW
(International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) and other groups organized letter
writing campaigns to various Beijing authorities (police department, mayor’s
of Read more »
Today Gazprom, Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi signed an agreement which will
see Gazprom, the Russian oil and gas giant, take over half plus one share of
Shell’s 55% stake of Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC). Earlier this
month it was 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 »
Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax for Fiscal Year beginning 7/1/2011 and ending 6/30/2012 Read more »
An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 big cats are kept as pets and for profit in places like basements, backyards and roadside zoos Read more »
The illicit trade in wildlife is not only a serious global environmental crime with profoundly negative impacts for endangere Read more »
On Wednesday, a large 8.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia triggered widespread panic as residents Read more »
The poachers rode into the park on horseback from Chad and Sudan, armed with automatic weapons and a single purpose: Kill as Read more »
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 »
All around Australia oil and gas companies are closing in on vital whale habitats. Any day now leases covering endangered Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants to track their Read more »
Much to my surprise and of others concerned with the fate of imperiled African lions, this species has been popping up on Read more »
Government officials, conservationists, animal rescuers and celebrities joined in a celebration today to mark the 10-year Read more »
The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants--six males and 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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