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Reported by Eduardo Santurtun, IFAW Emergency Relief Team Member in Latin America
After Hurricane Dean, IFAW’s ER team on Read more »
Heading South, the terrain became more mountainous, and we continued to be amazed at the destruction. The entire time the Read more »
Reporting in from Greece this week are IFAW's Juliet Neal-Boyd and Dick Green, who are helping distribute food and relief Read more »
IFAW Emergency Responder Valeria Ruoppolo and IFAW Director of Response Services Barbara Callahan filed this update on the Read more »
IFAW Emergency Relief Responder Wit Davis.
Emergency Relief Responders from the International Fund for Animal Read more »
Scientific research plays a big role in IFAW's animal welfare campaigns. Our research helps us find workable solutions that Read more »
While traveling to India, especially to its world-renowned national parks, one can never forget about the tigers. India' Read more »
Here it is! As promised, the first episode of the IFAW Wildlife Trade Podcast! IFAW's Online Community Read more »
This digest of posts were compiled from reports contributed by one of the IFAW Emergency Responders on the scene, Michael 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 »
Dubai customs authorities have announced the seizure of 259 elephant tusks – believed to be the biggest bust yet of contraband ivory in the UAE.
The tusks were seized on 1 May, 2013 during a routine x-ray inspection of a container shipped from Read more »
A tigress named Zolushka (Russian for Cinderella) was successfully released to the wild by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) jointly with the Phoenix Fund, Special Inspection Tiger, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecol Read more »
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) is organizing specialized training on prevention of wildlife trafficking and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The workshop i Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) has condemned an apparent decision to resume the cruel practice of harpooning endangered fin whales in Iceland.
Kristjan Loftsson, the lone Icelandic whaler responsible for slaughtering 28 Read more »
Poachers, aided by game rangers, have killed every single rhino in the Mozambique section of one of Southern Africa’s most vaunted transfrontier parks.
Media today report 15 rhino in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park were killed last mon Read more »
The European General Court today upheld the EU trade regulation on seal products. In a strongly-worded and crystal clear decision the court dismissed any concerns that either the EU seal trade regulation, or its implementation, lacked a legal basis. Read more »
The trampling to death of an elephant handler in South Africa this week has again thrown into sharp focus the dangers of the elephant-back safari industry.
On Monday an experienced handler at the Elephant Sanctuary, near Hartebeespoort Dam, North Wes Read more »
Canada’s commercial seal hunt opens off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador today, despite a lack of demand for seal products and restrictions on seal products in 34 countries. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) qu Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) has sent desperately needed emergency funds to Cyprus to help feed animals facing starvation because of the current financial crisis.
Donations to Cypriot shelters have completely 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 »
The IFAW observation team has arrived safely in Charlottetown, PEI to once again observe Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt in Read more »
Vandaag start de commerciële Canadese zeehondenjacht in St Lawrence-baai. Een team van waarnemers van het IFAW ( Read more »
Canada’s
commercial seal hunt is the largest hunt for marine mammals in the world.
Sealers are allowed to kill 280, Read more »
Posted by Sheryl Fink, IFAW Senior Researcher
In the same week that Russia annouced an end to the hunting of seals under a Read more »
Posted by Sheryl Fink, IFAW Senior Researcher
In the same week that Russia annouced an end to the hunting of seals under a Read more »
Canadian government sanctions the slaughter of 280,000 harp seal pups – but where will the pelts go?
“This quota is outrageous,” said Sheryl Fink, a senior
researcher with IFAW. “With the current state of Read more »
We’ve got speed limits on highways and city streets and winding country roads. Now, thanks to rules approved by NOAA’s Read more »
Crowds of demonstrators attended rallies across Canada over the weekend as part of the International Day of Action Read more »
De Russische minister van Natuurlijke Hulpbronnen en Ecologie Yuriy Trutnev kondigde vandaag een volledig verbod aan op de 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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