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Each violent poaching completely disrupts the perfect harmony of the herd, leaving many baby elephants orphaned or killed, Read more »
It is quite some achievement if you have ever met an Australian who has been to the Ningaloo or Kimberley coasts and who Read more »
Okay, so these adages are well-worn or possibly even trite. However, they resonate with me today as we launch the Read more »
Burty was one such pup who arrived at the clinic in August, brought him by his owners who live in an area called Read more »
Almost every time anyone thinks about legislation, they think about reading complicated documents only lawyers can Read more »
Mass exterminations of grey seals have been called for many times over the years in Canada, so it comes as no surprise to us Read more »
Japanese media report the Japan Fisheries Agency will again send its whaling fleet to the waters of the Southern Ocean Read more »
I was recently talking to a donor who had received one of our mailings and was horrified at the growing number of ivory Read more »
There is some serious monkey business about the way captive chimps are treated in this country. When faced with concrete 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 »
IFAW and other groups successfully lobbied more than half of all MEPs to sign
a Written Declaration calling for an end to the trade in seal products. A total
of 368 MEPs signed the Written Declaration 38, which will now be forwarded to
the Europea Read more »
After originally being exported illegally in 2001 from Africa to a zoo in
Taiping, Malaysia, the four gorillas – now about seven years old - have spent
the last two years at the National Zoological Gardens in Pretoria, South
Africa. The Read more »
Elephant populations in West and Central Africa are some of the continent’s
most vulnerable and most depleted. Only about three percent of Africa’s
elephants can be found in the region, less than 20,000 individuals – where once
h Read more »
More than 5,000 big cats are kept in facilities licensed by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) and it is estimated that thousands more are kept as pets.
“We’ve seen too many tragedies that could have been prevented,” Read more »
The Animal Rescue Blog (www.animalrescueblog.org) will bring
readers into the trenches of on- the-ground animal rescue efforts in disaster
affected areas such as Lebanon and Israel, Indonesia and India. The Animal
Rescue Blog will provide a single Read more »
The team of scientists and volunteers from Iceland, UK and as far afield as
Trinidad, has been using modern, non-invasive research techniques to gather
important data on the many species of whales found in Icelandic waters.
Sightings have included Read more »
Rep. Ryun worked closely with IFAW to draft the legislation after a fatal attack
last year in Kansas. The Congressman named the bill ‘Haley’s Act’ in
memory of Haley Hilderbrand, a 17-year-old killed last August at a
federa Read more »
In early May, several hundred oiled Magellanic penguins began washing ashore
in the Cabo Virgenes Nature Reserve in Argentina, about 1,700 miles (2,750
kilometers) southwest of Buenos Aires near the southernmost tip of Patagonia. A
team from IFAW Read more »
“This is our fifth painted plane,” said Cape Air President Dan Wolf. “We love
taking art off the walls and into the skies and having IFAW as a partner this
time around along with Jürek’s artistry in his depiction of the 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 »
In honor of sweet Uno passing away last week, I would like to say thank you to everyone involved in trying to save her. The Read more »
YouTube has selected IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) to be a member of its first official Read more »
In an epic operation starting today, ten elephants in Tsavo East and West National Parks will be collared using satellite Read more »
As the International Day of Action for Seals is upon us, this is a perfect time to reflect on the current realities of the 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 »
Last week, a federal judge sentenced Maria Angela Plancarte and her husband, Elias Garcia Garcia, to a year and a day in 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 »
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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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