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: Actress Amber Valletta asks Californians to be on the look out for entangled whales

Amber Valletta — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:48:30 +0000

Amber Valletta

Fri, 09/28/2012

I’m here at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Monterey with the International Fund for Animal Welfare to raise awareness of whale conservation and our work together.

We’re also premiering our public service announcement, which publicizes a toll-free number to report entangled whales in the state of California.

Spotlight Panama: Day three at the International Whaling Commission meeting

Robbie Marsland — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:23:51 +0000

Robbie Marsland

Wed, 07/04/2012

It was good to see day three start off with continuing good discussions on the welfare of whales. This included a report from the Humane Killing Methods committee which once again failed to find any way of humanely killing whales at sea.

Spotlight Panama: day one at the International Whaling Commission meeting

Robbie Marsland — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:53:25 +0000

Robbie Marsland

Tue, 07/03/2012

The International Fund for Animal Welfare Whale Program Director, Patrick Ramage, gives a brief summary of the South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary vote.

Greetings from hot, humid and wet Panama and the first day of the IWC Commissioners' meeting.

Today we had an auspicious start and an historical moment.

WATCH: Calm before the storm for whales in Panama?

Patrick Ramage — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:16:18 +0000

Patrick Ramage

Mon, 07/02/2012

As I and other members of Team IFAW and government delegates from dozens of member countries migrate to Panama City, Panama for the 2012 meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), speculation continues to swirl. What’s in store over the next week for our planet’s great whales? And what is the future for the IWC -- the global body tasked with conserving them and controlling whaling?

Volunteer humpbacks take pride in waving Icelandic tourists away from eating whale meat

Sigursteinn Masson — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:25:02 +0000

Sigursteinn Masson

Tue, 06/26/2012

This video captures some of the tourists who were approached during the “Meet Us Don’t Eat Us” campaign efforts.

On Friday June 15, 13 volunteers from Korea, France, United Kingdom, China, Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, Spain and Slovakia, along with two International Fund for Animal Welfare humpback whales, marched from Reykjavík harbour to the Icelandic Ministry of Fisheries.