All Press Releases for Political advocacy
The animal rescue groups are taking the big cats under the jurisdiction of a
court order. The cats were formerly owned by Diana McCourt until the USDA
revoked her license and fined her. The facility lost its license, in part, from
allowing dangero Read more »
Indeed, IFAW believes that special interests’ attempts to repeal China’s
domestic trade ban on tiger products remains the biggest threat not only to the
future of the South China tiger, but to the few remaining tigers in the wild of
Ch Read more »
The passage of the Captive Wildlife Safety Act – which happened shortly after
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) engaged in a
high-profile confiscation of 24 full-grown tigers from a suburban New Jersey
home – Read more »
Haley’s Act would amend the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) to prohibit direct contact
between the general public and big cats, including lions, tigers, leopards,
cheetahs, jaguars, cougars and hybrids. The bill does not discourage
public dis Read more »
Reflecting on the Park’s troubled past and the rampant poaching that kept
tourists away and almost wiped out its wildlife populations, Kenya’s Tourism and
Wildlife Minister Morris Dzoro said, “Meru not only became a hotbed of conf Read more »
Experts think these animals cannot be released. First of all, because there is
no rehabilitation center for Amur tigers in the Russian Far East.“It
was good we could timely start financing those orphaned tiger cubs. The last
winter was a ver Read more »