Let’s find a way to make it a quiet world oceans day

Submitted by J.C. Bouvier on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 5:04pm
Matt Collis
Fri, 06/07/2013
Let’s find a way to make it a quiet world oceans day

Sunset in South Australia.Today is world oceans day. On World Oceans Day people around the planet celebrate and honour the body of water which links us all, for what it provides humans and all that it represents, including the wonderful marine life we are privileged to share our oceans with.

Spotlight Mexico: after dark days, Coconut the dog has a bright future

Submitted by Luke Forrister on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 12:14pm
Azzedine Downes
Thu, 06/06/2013

This week during a visit to Cozumel, Mexico, our team discovered a dog in desperate need of help. Covered in used motor oil and little more than skin and bones, we found him as we were passing through the mangroves – dense, jungle-like swamps – in the remote, south east side of the island.  In his mouth was the carcass of an opossum, as he was starving and scavenging for anything to eat.

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Badger cull’s second day in Parliament

Submitted by Luke Forrister on Thu, 06/06/2013 - 11:42am
Robbie Marsland
Thu, 06/06/2013
Artful Badger leads the recent #BadgerMarch in London.

Artful Badger leads the recent #BadgerMarch in London.With the e-petition on the UK Government website approaching the figure that would make it the biggest ever, and with several thousand people marching against the badger cull in central London last weekend,

Mediterranean sail research update: promising findings off the southern coast of Portugal

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 2:20pm
Luke O'Connor
Fri, 06/07/2013
A mixed group of common and striped dolphins taken using a GoPro mounted on the

A mixed group of common and striped dolphins taken using a GoPro mounted on the bow of SOTW. Photograph by Luke O'Connor.

K-9 heroes and the human animal bond

Submitted by Jason Hart on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 1:59pm
Paul Todd
Thu, 06/06/2013
Yesterday, our team helped a woman with nothing left but a tent to buy supplies

The IFAW team helped a woman to obtain supplies and food for herself and her dog – in order to maintain the bond with her animal companion, something we strive for even in the most challenging of circumstances.When I was in Sydney, Australia for work, I t

Trophy hunter faces an empty mantel: exploits legal ivory trade to violate endangered species act

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 1:53pm
Beth Allgood
Wed, 06/05/2013
Kokesh legally imported an African elephant trophy mount from Namibia. He then i

Kokesh legally imported an African elephant trophy mount from Namibia. He then illegally sold the two tusks (similar to the confiscated tusks pictured here) to a buyer in Florida for $8,100 and proceeded to falsely describe the illegal sale in an email to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

VIDEO: Spektakuläre Freilassung eines Sibirischen Tigers in Russland

Submitted by Jason Hart on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 10:54am
Anna Fillipova
Mon, 06/03/2013

Sehen Sie Cinderellas spektakuläre Freilassung in die Wildnis, vor Ort auf Video aufgezeichnet von IFAW-Mitarbeitern in Russland. 

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Finding a way to prevent a wildlife cull

Submitted by Jason Hart on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 10:45am
Jordi Casamitjana
Mon, 06/03/2013
IFAW UK office staff, some dressed in costume, during the March on June 1st.ac

When I put my brand new white trousers on this morning and I noticed how well they looked with my black and white IFAW T-shirt, I realised that today was going to be a good day. Today was the day I would become a badger.