• Animals

In Honor of World Wildlife Day, Empathy for Animals One and All

• #WorldWildlifeDay
• animal rescue
• Australian fires
• bushfires
• compassion
• empathy
• Koala
• koala bears
• wildlife

By Azzedine Downes, President and CEO of the International Fund for Animal Welfare As the leader of an organization dedicated to the wellbeing and conservation of animals, I often receive requests from the general public to intervene to help animals in need—from rescuing emaciated lions in makeshift zoos in Sudan, to helping multiple species of animals […]

• Animals

One Talented Kid: The Winner of the 2020 World Wildlife Day Global Youth Art Contest

• #WorldWildlifeDay
• Australia
• extinction
• Koala
• wildfire

Australian youth artist Tiarn Garland, 15, is the winner of the World Wildlife Day 2020 International Youth Art Contest, which was co-sponsored by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Secretariat, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).  Titled “Here today….but tomorrow?”, Tiarn’s work depicts a […]

• Animals

Koala Populations Devastated by Fire, Dogs Helping to Save Them

• extinction
• Koala
• wildfire

A historic bush fire has torn through the eastern Australia coast, killing at least four people according to The Washington Post, and now hundreds of Australia’s most iconic symbol — koala bears — are also feared dead.   But now, CNN reports that non-profits like the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are using dogs trained to find koalas in the wild to rescue them.

Why This Matters:  For Australians, this is a national tragedy, and it painfully demonstrates the link between climate change and biodiversity loss.