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Six days in and we have completed two of our smaller survey blocks, the first close to the Hornsea wind farm and the second Read more »
The struggle to protect the marine region of North-west Australia is turning out like a kind of twisted David and Goliath Read more »
While in Bali, Indonesia last week, jet-setting fashionista Paris Hilton was struck by the suffering of the island’s Read more »
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 »
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 »
Last weekend two cubs were found by a logger and a truck driver on the roads of
the Chuguyewski district in the Primorye region. The young tigers were so
exhausted from hunger and frost that they did not flee from the
men. “These tigers Read more »
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org) said the new regulations sent a
clear message to the hunting fraternity that it is time to clean up the
industry. While hunting of captive bred predators per se has not
been al Read more »
As the report indicates, in nine of the past 11 years, average ice coverage has
deteriorated to well below the average ice cover seen over the last 37 years. A
lack of suitable ice, combined with violent storms and early ice break-up
disrupts the Read more »
The passenger, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was standing in the
nothing-to-declare customs line at the Beijing Capital International Airport,
when the surprise inspection was conducted.
Elephants are protected under an Appendix I li Read more »
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org), WWF, ACAP and the David Shepherd
Wildlife Foundation have written to the Mayor who sets the budget for the
Metropolitan Police Authority. The budget for the Wildlife Crime Unit is £8 Read more »
The results of a new Ipsos - MORI poll1, released today by the International
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org), the League Against Cruel Sports,
and the RSPCA, shows that despite the pro-hunt protestations, little has
changed, wi Read more »
“While protesters and whalers clash, Japan’s “scientific” whaling program has
already inflicted prolonged painful deaths on hundreds of whales in the
Antarctic Whale Sanctuary,” said Darren Kindleysides, IFAW Campaigns Read more »
The multi-media installation will showcase IFAW’s award-winning photographic
images of animals and people in a variety of habitats from around the globe.
This educational exhibit is designed to appeal to viewers of all ages while
underscorin Read more »
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 »
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 a recent episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” the storyline involved a couple who was brought into the hospital Read more »
There is nothing more frustrating than being prepared to document the commercial seal hunt and being kept down by one thing 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 »
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In the news
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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