Our animal action education programme helps children learn and care about animals
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- Make a plan for your pets in case of disasters
- Unnatural Disasters, a report on the need for government disaster planning to include animals
- Recommendations to the Japanese government about how to help animals after nuclear accidents
Animal rescue news
It has been just over a week since I returned from Oklahoma, where the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Read more »
I just had a very informative conversation with our team in Germany. I am proud of the whole IFAW Germany office for their Read more »
What’s a normal week for you?
I often get asked this question, and am always at a loss to answer.
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The first I saw of her was her trunk peeping out of a window.
It’s a rather strange behavior…like she is Read more »
It has been just over a week since I returned from Oklahoma, where the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Watch Video »
Watch the amazing video of Cinderella's release back into the wild, shot on location by IFAW staff working in Russia.
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In this brief video above you can hear the IFAW-WTI team member and in this instance also camera person, Bhaskar Choudhury 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 »
Two male Grizzly bear cubs named Blair and Terry, who were orphaned in British Columbia’s Kootenay’s in the fall of 2012, are on the road back to freedom. The cubs were orphaned in October when they were eight months old after their mothe Read more »
Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) have mobilized another team to Oklahoma. Their mission: to help care for wildlife affected by the devastating Moore tornado. Resident raptors, mammals and songbirds were in Read more »
The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), at the request of Central Oklahoma Humane Society (OK Humane) in Oklahoma City, Okla., has dispatched its disaster response team to assist with shelter operations as 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 »
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 »
A healthy, female calf has been born in Manas National Park, to a rhinoceros hand-raised by IFAW-WTI as an orphan and moved to the park as part of a species reintroduction.
“This is the first calf born in the wild in India from a rhino that had Read more »
It’s been more than 40 years since a small group of concerned citizens banded together to stop Canada’s cruel com Read more »
Around the world, safe wild places for bears are disappearing. Mankind is destroying bear habitat at an alarming rate, and to Read more »
IFAW works with local communities to help them better prepare for future disasters. You can help by doing your part to prepar Read more »
It has been just over a week since I returned from Oklahoma, where the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Read more »
Two male Grizzly bear cubs named Blair and Terry, who were orphaned in British Columbia’s Kootenay’s in the fall Read more »
I just had a very informative conversation with our team in Germany. I am proud of the whole IFAW Germany office for their Read more »
What’s a normal week for you?
I often get asked this question, and am always at a loss to answer.
For Community Led Read more »













