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By now, most of us have heard the news coming out of Zanesville, Ohio, where the owner of an animal preserve set free Read more »
It is an exciting time for the project as this year’s funding has finally allowed us to secure a local student’ Read more »
Every year police officers and conservation and animal welfare organisations meet to talk about how we can work together to Read more »
Today is my favourite day of the year. Today we celebrated our annual International Fund for Animal Welfare Animal Action Read more »
Being in the first Peace Corps program in Swaziland, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. Life in a small Read more »
Last week, the Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act was marked up and agreed to by the House Natural Read more »
In November the Convention for Migratory Species (CMS) will meet in Bergen, Norway to discuss and hopefully improve Read more »
Let’s be clear, the threats to marine life from the oil and gas industry are real. Let’s start with the Read more »
With more and more scientists finding an accelerated shrinking of Arctic habitat, and on-going attempts by single-minded US Read more »
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 »
In order to support the Congolese authorities in their efforts to reinforce the protection of the forest elephants that Watch Video »
“This is a great day for IFAW, for our staff and partners on Cape Cod, and for
the many animals we protect worldwide,” said IFAW President and CEO Fred
O’Regan. “The headquarters we break ground for today will bring our 150 Read more »
IFAW and the National Zoo met in Pretoria last week and agreed to collaborate
on all levels to return the gorillas to the Cameroon. A working date of 7
December 2006 has been set.
The decision ends months of speculation regarding the possibility of Read more »
In November 2004, detectives from the Metropolitan Police executed search
warrants at three London premises belonging to George F Trumper Ltd, a company
specialising in the sale of gentleman's grooming accessories. Twenty four ivory
items were sei Read more »
The whale is expected to be brought ashore early Tuesday afternoon, and will be the second fin whale hunted commercially by whalers since the Minister of Fisheries, Einar K. Gudfinnsson, issued hunting permits last week for nine endangered fin whales Read more »
The whaling ship, owned by prominent Icelandic businessman Kristjan Loftsson,
arrived this morning at Hvalfjordur (Whale Fjord), a small inlet with a dock
used by whalers in Iceland’s whaling days. The country’s sole whale meat
process Read more »
The whalers are on the hunt for a fin whale, one of nine the government has
issued hunting permits for. Fin whales are endangered under IUCN guidelines and
second only to the blue whale in terms of size -- growing to average lengths of
18-22m and Read more »
Over the past five years, more than 1.25 million seals have been hunted in
Canada’s annual commercial hunt – making it the largest marine mammal hunt in
the world. Recently, in opposition to the hunt, the European community
has taken s Read more »
The announcement was made by Iceland’s Ministry of Fisheries, which said permits
had been granted for the commercial hunting of 30 minke whales and nine
endangered fin whales. While Iceland has not officially hunted whales commercial
over th Read more »
The Parliament resolution
considers that the protection of animals in Europe should not be restricted
to farm animals and animals in experimentation but should extend to all groups
of animals, including wild animals with full regard paid to anima 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 »
At least 50 per cent of the elephant population of Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park is dead. They have been Read more »
We recently asked our Washington D.C. based Campaigns Manager, Paul Todd, six questions about issues surrounding the Read more »
Today is the opening day of the commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St Lawrence, although one would be hard pressed to know Read more »
IFAW is working with governments, customs officers and rangers
to protect wildlife from poaching and illegal wildlife trade Read more »
Two new Chinese language books for young readers are showing up in bookstores in China. The books on elephant and tiger Read more »
A green wooden box emerged from the parting of coats and legs, cameras, tripods, microphones. From within came silence.
Too Read more »
A recent Sky TV HD video overview report on the ivory trade.
The illegal ivory trade starts with the slaughter of elephants Read more »
IFAW and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) collared nine elephants, six males and three females, in Tsavo East and West Read more »
This footage of the dolphin stranding in Brazil is amazing.
This is a rare event for this area, unlike here on Cape 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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