World

IFAW’s

of Animals

A Jumbo Mission ...

to save 83 elephants from certain death.

Winning for Whales ...

IFAW protects whales on land and at sea.

Issue no. 2 2009

A Publication of the International Fund for Animal Welfare
 World A Jumbo Mission ...
IFAW’s

of Animals
Many of you have written to tell me you enjoyed our first
World of Animals. I’m glad to hear from you. I hope you
will like this issue just as much. From an astonishing
elephant rescue to a call to protect the littlest whale, I’m
proud to share IFAW achievements you make possible.

Fred O’Regan,
President and Chief Executive Officer

Contents
A Jumbo Mission ...
IFAW supporters rush to protect elephants.
page 3 – 5

Animal Matters
IFAW news from around the world.
page 6 – 8
Hundreds watched as the elephants were
gently loaded for their trip.
A Profile of Courage and Compassion

A Jumbo Mission
Cora Bailey rescues dogs and cats from the
poorest communities.
page 9

Winning for Whales ... IFAW and our supporters were jubilant in early
In coastal villages and the halls of power. July when we successfully relocated 83 elephants
page 10 – 11 from an area of conflict to safety and peace in a
protected wildlife reserve in Malawi.
A Star for Animals
Leonardo DiCaprio helps IFAW shine. The elephants were the remnants of large sometimes killing local farmers. In turn the
herds that used to roam the highlands farmers used appalling cruelty to drive off
page 12 south of Lake Malawi, in southern Africa. the elephants. Many of the elephants had
Over years the elephants were drawn into injuries - six had amputated trunks from
conflict with increasing numbers of human being caught in snares.
ntest
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A Jumbo Mission ...
“The only solution was to relocate the
elephants to a secure game reserve,” said
IFAW Southern Africa Director, Jason
Bell-Leask.
In partnership with the Government of
Malawi, IFAW contracted one of Africa’s
most highly respected game capture outfits
to help relocate the elephants to Majete
Wildlife Reserve, a safe haven about 300
kilometers (200 miles) south of Lake Malawi.
Hundreds of people cheered and sang as
the sleeping elephants were loaded for
the move.
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After their long journey, the elephants spent
their first night in a holding area before
being released into the pristine woodlands
to wander free in their new, protected home.
In total, 83 elephants – from tiny calves to a
grand old cow of about 40 years old –
were saved!
Mission Accomplished: 83 elephants
moved from conflict to peace in Malawi’s
protected Majete Wildlife Reserve –
a true triumph for animal welfare.
Powerful Partnerships
At IFAW we work to protect these
magnificent creatures across Africa, in
India and in China. We brought together 24
African nations to form a coalition to protect
elephants from the illegal ivory trade. We
train ranger patrols, safeguard habitat and
promote peaceful solutions to human-
elephant conflict.
Around the World ...
Across their roaming lands and around the
world, IFAW is taking steps to protect these
magnificent, intelligent creatures. We hope
to see their jumbo footprints on earth’s
landscape for generations to come.
Kenya ...
IFAW has been working with Kenya Wildlife
Service (KWS) since 2005 to protect
elephants from poachers in Tsavo National
Park, home to the single largest elephant
population in the world. We are helping
revamp anti-poaching efforts and securing
the park. In our first year working with KWS,
40 poachers were arrested.
This past April, thanks to IFAW supporters,
we were able to donate $25,000 worth of
tires and fuel for patrol vehicles.
IFAW has committed
$1.25 million over five
years to help restore
and protect Tsavo
National Park and
its wildlife. For more
information, read
Tsavo’s latest
annual report.
The Congo ...
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
IFAW has partnered with the organization
‘Action on Biodiversity in Katanga’ to save
the last elephants of Katanga. For years,
people believed these elephants had
completely disappeared. In October 2007,
an aerial survey located a herd of about 85
elephants north of the Lufira River, outside
Upemba Park. IFAW is helping to teach
local villagers how to live peacefully with the
elephants, knowing that their presence will
increase tourism in the area.
China ...
IFAW is the leading organization saving
Asian elephant habitat in China, where as
few as 300 elephants remain. In Yunnan
Province, we provided farmers with loans
to find new opportunities – such as raising
ducks for eggs and growing tea (which
elephants don’t like) – while alleviating
agricultural use in the elephants’ last
roaming lands.
And IFAW is using an innovative public
awareness program to educate consumers
not to buy ivory. International ad agency
JCDecaux donated billboard space for
IFAW ads across China.
“Mom, I got teeth.” IFAW’s ad campaign
illustrates the threat to elephants from ivory
trade; 80% of Chinese consumers did not
know elephants are killed for ivory.
India ...
IFAW partners with the Wildlife Trust of
India (WTI) to create elephant corridors
between forests to facilitate safe passage
of elephants, help railways prevent train
strikes where tracks run through elephant
habitat, and hand-raise orphaned elephant
calves through our Wildlife Rescue Center
in Kaziranga. These elephants will be
released to a protected area when they are
old enough.
IFAW has successfully reintroduced 7
orphaned elephants back to the
wild in India.
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Animal matters
Brief news of IFAW’s recent activities
and successes around the world

The Littlest Whale North Sea

Harbour porpoises have returned to the southern

Doggone Fashionable! USA
Lucky dogs at IFAW’s Navajo Nation project are
sporting new collars and ID tags, thanks to the
Fashion Accessories Benefit Ball held in New York
City last May. Fashion event founder Reenie Brown
raised $15,000 to buy 5,000 collars to build a sense
of pride in dog ownership and help reduce the
number of roaming dogs on the Navajo Nation.
On the Front Lines worldwide
The collars are being distributed in conjunction
with a Navajo Presidential Proclamation calling for
better animal health, safety and welfare – the first
IFAW is helping to increase the number of wildlife proclamation of its kind in the Navajo Nation.
smuggling busts and international reporting of
wildlife crimes.
Seal Hunt in Canada
Death Throes?
The 2009 commercial hunt for harp seals in
Canada crawled to a halt with only a fraction of
the government’s quota reached. Sealers did kill
72,407 harp seal pups this year, but more than
200,000 seal pups were spared thanks to the lack
of demand for seal products.
In July, the Council of the European Union banned
the trade of all seal products within the EU,
beginning in 2010. IFAW is very grateful to our
supporters around the world and to the people of
Europe for their vital role in creating a groundswell
of protest that led to this victory.
North Sea and they need protection. One of
the smallest marine mammals in the world, this
charismatic little whale relies on internal sonar to dive
for food. Unfortunately, it cannot detect fishing nets
and often ends up entangled in fishing gear.
IFAW commissioned a report from the Royal
Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences and the Royal
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research on the status
of harbour porpoises, which showed that almost 50%
of all porpoise deaths are caused by fishing gear in
Belgian and Dutch waters.
IFAW’s report shows the need to address this
problem on an international scale.
Read the full report.

We are working with the US Customs and Border

Protection department to inform agents of recent Rhinos Go Wild Tanzania

trends in wildlife crime and aid confiscation of

contraband such as elephant ivory. In the Middle East
Three black rhinos, named Jabu, Jamie and
First Law for China
and North Africa, IFAW has trained customs officers
and authorities in 14 countries on spotting and
Deborah, flew back to the bush after the owners of Animal Welfare
Dvur Kralove Zoo in Czechoslovakia decided they
preventing illegal wildlife trade. And in Kenya, IFAW
would fare better in the wild. Their journey included IFAW successfully stopped a government order to cull
supports anti-poaching patrols in Tsavo National Park
a 1,000 km (625 mile) road trip to Amsterdam, an dogs in Heihe, China, following a dog bite incident.
and Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, the front lines
overnight flight to Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania and In an effort to prevent such cruelty to animals, IFAW
of elephant slaughter for ivory.
a final drive to their new home in Mkomazi Rhino is helping the Chinese government draft China’s first
IFAW’s trade training continues in Asia Pacific as Sanctuary, an IFAW-supported National Park. animal welfare law. If passed, this will be the first
well. We collaborated with the New Zealand Wildlife time animal abusers will face criminal punishment in
This remarkable translocation provides new blood
Enforcement Group to train officers from seven China. We hope the new law will end rampant cruelty,
lines for the sanctuary’s rhino population, which
Pacific Island countries in recognizing illegal wildlife from bear and tiger farming to abuse of zoo animals
numbers 4 adults and one calf.
products – including coral, marine turtles and reptiles to culling of dogs.
– that people unknowingly purchase as gifts.

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 Animal matters In Profile

Kind Words ... Heroic Actions

A Well-Crafted Middle East
Solution
With Yemen’s Environmental Protection Authority,
IFAW is funding a project that enables craftsmen
to replace endangered rhino horn with agate in
ornamental daggers. To commemorate the project,
IFAW Vice President Azzedine Downes presented
Yemen’s Prime Minister Ali Mujawar with a dagger
whose handle was carved from agate.
For more than 10 years IFAW’s Cora Bailey has been reaching out to
provide veterinary care and heartfelt compassion to the people and pets of
Johannesburg, South Africa. A former SPCA animal inspector, she left to
focus on helping the poor and their pets, and IFAW joined her crusade. Here
is her amazing story ...
“In the 1990s, there was a lot of violence in more kindness has the affect of making
South Africa. Thousands of people fled their us, as a people, more kind. We become
homes, leaving animals to roam. The poor the beneficiaries as much as the animals
had no vet services. themselves.”
“I saw a need and acted. IFAW came in and Cora is truly an amazing woman who gives
helped me expand. all of herself every day.
“Each day brings drama and crisis ...
dealing with an animal cruelty case ...
chasing down a dog on the freeway ...

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Cora Bailey visits a
meeting with community leaders ... We family with a puppy.
stitch up wounds, spay/neuter dogs and
A Heroic Hound UK cats, provide food and foster care for
hundreds of thousands of animals.

“Right now I’m worried about a 14-year-

When Peter Wilson rescued Mandy, a lab mix,
she was seriously ill. He nursed her back to health
and she has been a faithful companion indeed.
Peter suffered a major heart attack while walking
Mandy and his other dogs along a rural path and
Mandy rushed home and led rescuers more than
two miles back to where Peter lay. Then, when
a fire broke out at the North Lakes Greyhound
Retreat Rescue center Peter runs, she ran barking
through the smoke-filled house ... waking Peter
and saving the lives of 14 dogs at the center.
Mandy received an IFAW Animal Action Award
for her bravery. If you know an animal, or a
person, who has made a heroic effort for a fellow
creature, nominate them for an
Animal Action Award.
Seal Pups Rescued Scotland
When a rescue medic was called to save a two-day-
old harbour seal from a busy beach in the Dornoch
Firth, he brought her to an IFAW-funded rehabilitation
unit. Christened Freddy, after IFAW CEO Fred
O’Regan, she was soon joined by another female, a
few days older, named Jules.
The two pups are being nursed back to health in a
shared pen where they are already gaining weight.
Once they can catch their own food they will go to an
outside pool for eventual release back into the wild.
Alan Knight, Chairman of the British Divers Marine
Life Rescue group, said: “If it wasn’t for IFAW’s
support, we wouldn’t be able to rescue these animals
in distress and give them the care they need.”
old boy named Moses who lives alone in
a shack on a rubbish dump caring for 20
dogs. We want to get him a constant supply
of food for his dogs, but also protect him
from criminals at the dump.
“The poor people of Africa love their pets
the same as people all over the world. What
little they have, they share. The cupboard
may be bare but the dog dish is full.
“Animals are part of the fabric of our lives.
They enlarge our compassion for each
other and living things ... they help us
appreciate the beauty and complexity of the
world. There is never a justifiable reason to
treat any animal cruelly. Treating them with
One Big Heart Can
Save Thousands
Cora’s compassion is an inspiration to
all who know and work with her. Her
team cares for more than 1,000 animals
a month, every month ... giving lifesaving
veterinary care, food and shelter. I hope
her outstanding efforts will inspire your
generosity and that you will make a gift to
IFAW to help us save the next 1,000 cats
and dogs, and countless other animals
suffering around the world.

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Whales in Focus
Whale watching is a $2.1 billion business worldwide.
A Whale’s Eye View
For decades, IFAW has been a whale of a friend to the earth’s
most enormous creatures ... and this year our new report
Whale Watching Worldwide is making a big splash!
It shows that more than 13 million people
took whale watching tours last year in 119
countries, generating a whopping $2.1
billion in expenditures. This is a much more
beneficial “use” of whales than commercial
whaling.
IFAW promotes responsible whale watching
in the Caribbean, South Pacific and other
regions, including the waters off of Japan
and Iceland, two nations that together
with Norway still stubbornly continue to kill
whales for profit. An IFAW opinion poll in the
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UK – released as Iceland’s whaling boats
departed to hunt – revealed that 83% of
the British public are opposed to Iceland’s
decision to start whaling again.
In our continuing efforts to encourage US
leadership in whale conservation, IFAW
Honorary Board Members Keely and Pierce
Brosnan joined IFAW CEO Fred O’Regan
in a series of meetings with senior White
House officials. Pierce Brosnan urged
members of Congress to act to protect
these magnificent, sentient beings.
IFAW is an active participant in annual
meetings of the International Whaling
Commission where we work to maintain
the international moratorium on commercial
whaling. In July, we were also awarded full
consultative status with the International
Maritime Organization in recognition of our
outstanding work to prevent ship collisions
with whales, and to regulate underwater
noise that is harmful to whales and other
sea dwellers.
Of course, our most joyous work – and
perhaps our most important – is instilling a
love and respect for these gentle creatures
in children.
Whales in Focus
IFAW CEO Fred O’Regan, Congressman William
Delahunt, actor Pierce Brosnan and Congressman
Eni Faleomavaega at IFAW’s Global Whale
Conservation Congressional Reception in
Washington, DC.
Students in Dominica learn just how big a whale is.
Some of these children are unaware of the amazing
life just off their shores.
In ‘floating classrooms’ on the Caribbean
island of Dominica, we introduced a marine
educational series. And we brought local
students to experience the waters off their
shore. Some of the children had never
been on a boat before. We hope these new
explorers will champion whale conservation
when they become adults.
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Asia Pacific in Focus
Preventing Illegal
Wildlife Trade
…IFAW leads the way.
The Powhiri welcoming ceremony extended to visitors by
Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, set the perfect
scene for the first ever workshop on combating illegal wildlife
trade in Oceania.
The word Po can be translated as a venture
into the “unknown” or a new experience,
while Whiri is derived from the term
Whiriwhiri meaning the act of exchanging
information and knowledge. And that’s
exactly what this training meant for the
fourteen participants from seven Pacific
island nations.
Despite the fact that corals, shells, turtles,
butterflies and traditional Asian medicines
(containing bear bile and tiger parts) are
smuggled to and from Oceania, curbing
illegal wildlife trade sits low in the political
agenda.
But thanks to a partnership between IFAW
and the New Zealand Wildlife Enforcement
Group, local wildlife and customs officers
learned how to identify illegal goods and
combat wildlife trade.
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Asia Pacific in Focus
Trainees came from diverse government
areas, including Biosecurity, Customs
and Environmental agencies. And trainers
included specialists from around the
world, including a US federal prosecutor
of environmental crimes; the New Zealand
head of the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species; and Vivek
Menon, Director of IFAW India.
Participants learned about smuggling
tactics in practical exercises and were
treated to a rare ‘backstage’ visit of
Auckland international airport, where they
witnessed live-search operations targeting and tools to combat illegal wildlife trade. will continue to work with the New Zealand,
international travellers. It also seeks to empower local individuals Australian and Pacific Island governments to
so they become regional trainers in the lock down our regional borders and stamp
This workshop – supported by the Oceania near future. out illegal trafficking of wildlife products.
Customs Organisation Secretariat and the
Pacific Security Fund – was a first step in a The best laws in the world won’t save
program aiming to provide key knowledge animals without effective enforcement. IFAW
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Hunting for Justice Hunting for Justice

Hunting
Come rain, sleet or snow, IFAW’s hunt
monitors have braved threats and abuse to
document the cruel activity of hunting with
dogs in the hope their video footage would
one day help secure a ban. Finally ending
“The recent success of IFAW’s prosecution
means the end of organised events where
greyhounds chase and kill hares for human
entertainment,” McCrea-Steele says.

for Justice
For 20 years, IFAW has led the campaign in the UK for a total
ban on the cruel ‘sport’ of hunting wild animals with dogs. This
resulted in the Hunting Act becoming law in February 2005,
making hunting with dogs illegal. But some hunters
are still intent on inflicting untold
suffering in the illegal pursuit of
animals such as fox, deer,
mink and hares…
all in the name of ‘sport’.
centuries of cruelty, the Hunting Act let the
world know that the British public would no
longer tolerate animals suffering for ‘sport’.
But for some hunters today, the thrill of
chasing wild animals has been replaced
by the thrill of trying to get around the law.
Now our monitors are capturing evidence of
illegal hunting.
“Since the Hunting Act was passed,” says
Tania McCrea-Steele, Campaigns and
Prosecutions Officer for IFAW, “we’ve been
working tirelessly with police officers and
hunt monitors across England and Wales to
ensure this law is properly enforced.”
At least seventy-three people have been
prosecuted and convicted of breaking
the Hunting Act so far, including a recent
high-profile case brought by IFAW against
TV Chef ‘Fat Lady’ Clarissa Dickson-Wright
and racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott.
Yet despite a recent poll showing that seven
out of ten people in the UK still support
the ban, some senior Conservatives are
supporting calls for a repeal of the law.
“MPs would be wise to listen to the views
of the compassionate majority of British
people,” says IFAW Campaigns Manager
Josey Sharrad. “There is no human right to
be cruel, and traditions change as society
evolves. Police should do more to make
sure the law of the land is upheld. It’s time
for the hunting community to move on.”
In the lead up to the next General Election
ask your MP and Prospective Parliamentary
Candidates where they stand if a vote to
repeal the Hunting Act is called. We need
them to know that we won’t accept a return
to legalised cruelty to animals. Hunting
with dogs has to be permanently
confined to history.

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A Star for Animals
Actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio International Fund for Animal Welfare
will harness his star power on behalf of IFAW’s
Animal Action Week this October by serving as International Online Edition

a spokesman for this year’s education theme, Under One Sky. As one of the world’s
leading animal welfare
“It’s our responsibility to protect animals and our planet’s vital organizations, IFAW carries
ecosystems if we want to leave a better world for future generations,” out its animal welfare
work in more than 40
said DiCaprio.
countries. IFAW focuses its
campaigns on improving
DiCaprio, an IFAW Honorary Board Member, lends his voice to a the welfare of wild and
15-minute film, Under One Sky, Why Animals Matter, which is part of domestic animals by
the free education pack IFAW is providing to schools. This is part of reducing the commercial
a worldwide program that reaches over 7 million young people in 18 exploitation of animals,
protecting wildlife habitats,
countries annually. and assisting animals
in distress.
Please join Leonardo in setting an example for the rest of the world
by ordering the video, the teaching guide and the Take Action
Toolkit online. The pack is full of fun activities and important tips on
protecting the world we share with animals.

Pet Pix winner! Look for IFAW on:

Congratulations to Patrick Simon, a

supporter from France who sent in
this amazing photo of his Labrador:
Nox. As we are still receiving some
really great photos, we’ve decided to
select a second winner. That winner
will be announced in our next issue.

Thanks to all of you who entered our contest! We’ve put together a
slide show of some of the best photos so take a look.

This Month’s Contest: Create a Caption.

This month we challenge you to create a caption for this winning
photo. Email your caption to caption@ifaw.org.

Win this prize !

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