Our Animal Action Education programme helps children learn and care about animals
Learn more about threats to elephants:
- Facts and Fables: Are there too many elephants in Southern Africa?
- Cultural traditions in Japan may no longer dictate use of ivory
- Fatal flaw: Inadequacies of Japan's ivory trade controls
- Using DNA to track the origin of the largest ivory seizure since the 1989 trade ban
- Fact sheet: Combating poaching and other threats to elephants
- Fact sheet: Protecting elephants and their habitats
Popular posts about elephants:
- WATCH: elephant moves in India, Cote d’Ivoire.
- Meet the elephant researchers: Vicki Fishlock, Cynthia Moss, and Rudi van Aarde
- Explore CERU’s “Elephants—A Way Forward”
- Help youth help elephants
Elephants news

Today is a great day for elephants, as the UK Government has announced a ban on ivory sales will go ahead, with a pledge Read more »

To stop the slaughter of elephants, we have to break every link on the trade chain—from poaching to trafficking to Read more »

Homelessness charity Emmaus Cambridge’s warehouse regularly receives donations from local residents in Cambridgeshire Read more »
This World Wildlife Day, which this year has the theme of #ListentoYoungVoices, I want to encourage everyone to # Watch Video »
Our video team has been fortunate enough to chronicle so many of our successes over the years. Here is a rundown of our Watch Video »
UPDATE: While the older orphans seemed to have accepted their temporary home quite quickly, Musolole, Nkala and Muchichili Watch Video »
Recently, the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Wildlife Trust of India collaborated with the Similipal Tiger Watch Video »
Today’s announcement by the Government of a ban on ivory sales has been welcomed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) as a positive and vital step for elephants, as it urges the Government to do all it can to ensure the ban is in Read more »
Today, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz hand over more than 1.2 million signatures to Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, calling o Read more »
Six orphaned female elephant calves that had been hand-raised at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation – CWRC; the wildlife rescue, treatment and rehabilitation facility jointly run by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the Intern Read more »
William George & Co are a forward-thinking, proactive auction house with a strong, long-term vision for the future. Nowhere in that future do they see the continuation of practices that harm endangered wildlife.
Today, William George & Co ann Read more »
An ivory surrender to help protect elephants from further slaughter for the illegal ivory trade has received overwhelming support from the UK public with almost 500 ivory items weighing around 150kgs donated in just a few months.
The International Fu Read more »
As the Government launches a public consultation on a UK ivory trade ban, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) welcomes the move and calls on the UK public, as well as politicians, to support increased protection for elephants which are b Read more »
We have reached a critical point in time for elephants. The number of wild elephants across the world has fallen dramatically Read more »
IFAW’s first ever research into online wildlife trade in Africa found 990 endangered and threatened wildlife advertisem Read more »
IFAW's flagship publication explores where we work, the species we protect, the inspiring work of our staff, and other IF Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare’s briefing summarizes the important steps taken by the EU and at the intern Read more »
This article, written by Story Hinckley, originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on October 23, 2017. --KB Read more »
The article below was authored by Azzedine Downes, IFAW President and CEO, for distribution in the upcoming Convention Read more »
Wildlife Week, celebrated the first week of October in India, marked the milestone of 5,000 animals handled by the IFAW-WTI Read more »
Today, I was proud to be a part of the fourth annual march for elephants and rhinos in London. It was a powerful occasion Read more »