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Independent experts slam Japan’s new whaling plan
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 12:00 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
Independent experts slam Japan’s new whaling plan and declare no more whales need to be killed for Antarctic research More >>
African Elephant Summit – Where to Next?
Thursday, 26 March 2015, 3:25 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Sydney – 25 March, 2015) With the spotlight now on today’s conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade in Kasane, Botswana conservationists said while that Tuesday’s African Elephant Summit had shown significant progress by some countries, notably African ... More >>
Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling is illegal and must end
Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 9:02 am | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(The Hague, Netherlands – 31 March 2014) – Delivering its judgment on Australia’s case against Japan, which saw evidence presented during a three-week hearing last June, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today found that Japan’s Southern ... More >>
IFAW & INTERPOL Team Up to Dismantle Ivory Trafficking
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 3:03 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
Operation WENDI: IFAW and INTERPOL Team Up to Dismantle Ivory Trafficking in West and Central Africa More >>
Controversial Whaling Proposal Fails at Meeting
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 12:20 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) announced today that a controversial proposal to legalize whaling has failed at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Agadir, Morocco. More >>
World to legalize whaling this week?
Monday, 21 June 2010, 1:20 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(21 June 2010) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) announced today that the worldwide whaling ban—in place since 1986—may be overturned this week. More >>
Plan To Overturn Whaling Ban Unveiled
Friday, 23 April 2010, 3:16 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Sydney, Australia – 23 April 2010) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org) announced that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has released a new plan to legalize commercial whaling. More >>
Report Documents Massive Growth In Whale Watching
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 2:20 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Madeira, Portugal -- 23 June 2009) -A new report released today by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW -- www.ifaw.org ) documents massive growth in the global whale watching industry over the past decade. The new report, Whale Watching Worldwide, ... More >>
Science and Conservation or Sanctioned Slaughter?
Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 1:16 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Madeira, Portugal -- 22 June 2009) Governments from more than 80 countries opened the 61st annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) today, following a year of closed-door discussions which have failed to secure agreement from Japan, ... More >>
Japan’s Whalers Return With Bloody Swag
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:53 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
14 April 2009 - In clear defiance of international law and current International Whaling Commission (IWC) negotiations, the Government of Japan’s whaling fleet has returned to port having killed 680 whales this season. More >>
No Market For Pelts Yet Seal Hunt Quota Expanded
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 2:53 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Ottawa, Canada – 8 April 2009) - As Canada’s commercial seal hunt re-opened in the Gulf of St. Lawrence yesterday with another 64,000 pups scheduled for slaughter, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) welcomed the news that many sealers ... More >>
Over 17,200 Baby Seals Killed in Two Days
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 12:59 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Charlottetown, PEI, Canada – 26 March 2009) – Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) closed the first phase of the seal hunt yesterday after sealers killed 17,200 harp seals. DFO is set to re-open the hunt in another area of the Gulf ... More >>
Canada’s 2009 Commercial Seal Hunt
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 12:29 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Charlottetown, Canada – 23 March 2009) – A team of observers with IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) is ready to document Canada’s cruel commercial seal hunt as it opens in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, today. More >>
280,000 Baby Seals To Be Slaughtered In Canada
Monday, 23 March 2009, 1:27 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Ottawa, Canada – 23 March 2009) - Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has released this year’s total allowable catch (TAC) for harp seals despite a lack of demand worldwide for seal fur. Experts with IFAW (International Fund for ... More >>
Victory For Seals: Russia Bans Baby Seal Hunt
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 1:16 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Moscow, Russia – 19 March 2009) – After 15 years of campaigning against the Russian seal hunt, IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare) applauds yesterday’s announcement by Yuriy Trutnev, Russia’s Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, ... More >>
IWC Meeting – No Rome For Compromise
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 12:06 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
9 March 2009 – The Australian Government must fight harder than ever for the future of whales as the intercessional meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) starts today in Rome to continue negotiations that may lead to lifting the moratorium ... More >>
IWC Meeting – No Rome For Compromise
Monday, 9 March 2009, 4:25 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
9 March 2009 – The New Zealand Government must fight harder than ever for the future of whales as the intercessional meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) starts today in Rome to continue negotiations that may lead to lifting the moratorium ... More >>
Poachers Kill Five Elephants In Kenya
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 2:29 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
(Nairobi, Kenya – 25 February 2009) – Five elephants have been killed by poachers in the last six weeks in the Tsavo ecosystem of Kenya, alarming authorities and conservationists. The elephants, whose tusks had been hacked off, were found in three separate parts ... More >>
Whaling Cave In
Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 2:07 pm | International Fund For Animal Welfare
Sydney, Australia, 3 February 2009 – A plan released today by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) confirms negotiations to undo the global moratorium on commercial whaling and allow the Government of Japan to kill whales off its coastline and in ... More >>
Japan’s Whalers Defy Antarctic Laws – New Report
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 11:50 am | International Fund For Animal Welfare
An independent group of Antarctic law and policy experts, convened in Canberra, Australia by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare), has released a report detailing options available to the New Zealand, Australian and other like-minded Governments ... More >>
