All Blog Posts for Political advocacy

VIDEO: World Trade Organisation challenge begins as the commercial seal hunt ends
5th March 2013 Sheryl Fink
Warning: video contains graphic images of sealing activity. The first set of hearings on the WTO challenge concerning the Read more »
VIDEO - CITES Bangkok day one - politics, politicians, ivory and democracy
4th March 2013 Adrian Hiel
The International Fund for Animal Welfare's Peter Pueschel gives us an update from the floor of CITES CoP 16. Read more »
Image source: Wikimedia Commons - Matthew G. Bisanz
A coup in court for polar bears
4th March 2013 Jeffrey Flocken
This past week a Federal Appeals Court upheld the 2008 decision by the U.S. Government to list the polar bear as threatened Read more »
How to stay up to date on CoP 16 IFAW news from CITES in Bangkok, Thailand
How to stay up to date on CoP 16 IFAW news from CITES in Bangkok, Thailand
3rd March 2013 Adrian Hiel
The 16th Conference of the Parties (CoP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species has begun here in Read more »
Poachers slaughtered at least 200 elephants for their tusks in Cameroon during a
At this CITES, let’s get down to the real business for elephants
28th February 2013 Jason Bell
At this year’s 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP16) to the Convention on International Trade in Read more »
On International Polar Bear Day, ask why 400 more should die
On International Polar Bear Day, ask why 400 more should die
27th February 2013 Jeffrey Flocken
With an estimated 20,000-25,000 polar bears remaining in the wild, we continue to ask why 400 bears are unnecessarily killed Read more »