Watch our 6 best animal welfare moments – 2012 edition

Azzedine Downes — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:20:24 +0000

Azzedine Downes

Sun, 12/30/2012

As 2012 comes to an end, and the scale of the work we have ahead sinks in, this highlight video produced by our communications staff gives me such hope.

The people featured in this video are members of the dedicated teams of International Fund for Animal Welfare staff who work tirelessly around the world year in and year out to protect and rescue thousands of animals in need and crisis.

WATCH: heartwarming return of an elephant calf to her mum, and a word of thanks

Vicki Fishlock — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:28:12 +0000

Vicki Fishlock

Mon, 10/15/2012

Editor’s note –

This email of thanks came in from Dr. Vicki Fishlock, a member of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants research team, longtime International Fund for Animal Welfare grantee.

The video Vicki includes shows her and her teammates helping a young female elephant calf escape entrapment in a shallow Maasai well, and then help to reunite the frightened calf with her mother.

WATCH: True Blood star Kristin Bauer with IFAW in Amboseli National Park

Kristin Bauer — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:16:23 +0000

Kristin Bauer

Thu, 09/06/2012

I write this on my last day in Amboseli National Park, in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro.

It has been a spectacular journey so far, full of wildlife and the amazing people here to protect them, set on a beautiful landscape that I’ve long dreamed of.

Spotlight Amboseli: Talking to the elephants

Vicki Fishlock — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:54:36 +0000

Vicki Fishlock

Wed, 08/15/2012

If you wanted to ask an elephant a question, how would you go about it? One way would be to record an elephant’s call and play it over a speaker that is able to reproduce the low- frequency sounds people may or may not be capable of hearing but elephants can.

Video from Amboseli: recovering from the 2009 drought

Vicki Fishlock — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:27:50 +0000

Vicki Fishlock

Tue, 07/31/2012

When the rains came after the 2009 drought in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, the vegetation grew and the elephant population finally began to recover. However many of the older matriarchs, leaders of the elephant family groups, were lost in the drought.

Spotlight Amboseli: studying elephants is my dream job

Vicki Fishlock — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:28 +0000

Vicki Fishlock

Fri, 07/27/2012

My fascination with elephants goes back as far as I can remember. To become a research associate studying Amboseli’s elephants and working with consummate experts like Cynthia Moss is the realization of a life-long dream.

There are few things as relaxing as spending time with a peacefully foraging elephant in the quiet of an Amboseli afternoon,