IFAW’s
of Animals
of Animals
Welcome to the first edition of IFAW’s World of Animals,
designed to bring you the stories behind some of IFAW’s
campaigns and successes. I hope you will find this
newsletter engaging and informative, and that you will
feel proud of the achievements you make possible.
Fred O’Regan,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Contents
When Disasters Strike...
IFAW’s supporters are there for the animals.
page 3 – 5
When
Animal Matters
IFAW news from around the world.
page 6 – 8
Disasters Strike...
Juliana Kickert’s
Legacy of Kindness
A dedicated supporter makes a generous lasting gift.
page 9
When the worst fires in Australia’s history turned the bush into a
Sealing Their Fate blackened wasteland, people mourned unimaginable loss. As dazed
IFAW’s 40-year-campaign is winning victories! animals wandered from the forests, people felt a small glimmer of
page 10 – 11 hope that some life survived.
A Shy Celebrity IFAW rushed to rescue burned animals
emerging from the fire zone - koalas,
Sam was the face of hope for bushfire survivors.
possums, kangaroos, dogs, an orphaned
page 12 baby deer, even horses and birds. In all, IFAW
helped save 142 animals and provided them
mera with veterinary care, food and water, medicine
Win this sonytaiCa and bandages. As is often the case, care
for de ls
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When Disasters Strike... When Disasters Strike...
IFAW is a world leader in emergency in South Africa in 2000, we led a massive administering antibiotics to farm animals ...
response: operation to clean, rehabilitate and release saving orphaned wildlife and returning them
• In the USA, IFAW helped federal and an entire population of African penguins ... to their natural homes.
state agencies develop disaster-response saving 19,000 lives.
guidelines and contributed to legislation To help support IFAW’s rescue efforts,
requiring evacuation plans for animals Sometimes it’s an individual animal visit www.ifaw.org/woa
during disasters. that desperately needs our help.
With our partner organization Wildlife Trust
• After the devastating earthquake in China,
of India (WTI), IFAW is hand-raising a pair of UnAtda
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Russia, IFAW posters,
IFAW was the only international animal booklets and t-shirts promoted tiger protection.
welfare organization invited to help cats, orphaned clouded leopard cubs, found by During the last five years, IFAW has
dogs and farm animals in 18 villages. villagers in northeast Assam. Our plan is to responded to more than 17 natural
rehabilitate these very rare cubs and return disasters, including:
• IFAW’s bear rescue center in Russia has
them to the wild.
pioneered hand-rearing of orphaned cubs Hurricanes in the USA and
tralia
continued long after the emergency faded for return to the wild.
“This is the first time clouded leopards have Cyclones in Burma and Aus
from the headlines. IFAW kept working with • In India, we provide veterinary care and been admitted to the IFAW rescue facilities Floods in India, Mexico, Indonesia,
valiant caregivers over weeks and months round-the-clock bottle feeding to orphaned in northeast India,” said WTI’s Bhaskar Canada, South Africa and the USA
following the fires. As wounds healed and leopard cubs, baby elephants and baby Choudhury. “It provides an important indicator
animals regained their strength, their release rhinos ... some have lost their mothers in of the presence of this species in the Indo- Tsunamis in India, Sri Lanka
was met with tears of joy. floods, some to poachers. Bhutan region.” and Indonesia
Ear thquakes in China ,
Whenever horrible disasters like this IFAW is also the global leader in oil IFAW responds whenever animals are Indonesia and Italy
strike, IFAW veterinarians and emergency spill animal rescue. in danger ... rescuing cats and dogs ...
responders rush to the scene ... rescuing We have responded to 25 oil spills in 15 Volcanic eruptions in Indonesia,
defenseless creatures, large and small. countries. Following the Treasure oil spill the Philippines and Chile
IFAW is helping to relocate 83 elephants from certain German ad agency Springer & Jacoby produced a clever animated
death in Phirilongwe, Malawi, where they came into ad for IFAW’s campaign to make consumers ‘think twice’ about
conflict with villagers as their habitat decreased, to buying animal souvenirs while travelling abroad.
the protected Majete Wildlife Reserve. Previously, all
the animals at Majete had been poached to the brink The ad was directed by Ismail Arca, animation & computer graphics
of extinction. But now the park is secure – with park supervisor at George Lucas’ company “Industrial Light and Magic.”
rangers on patrol and a fence – and ready to welcome He has received several academy nominations and won an academy
these elephant families. award for “Pirates of the Caribbean.” When he heard about this
project he instantly agreed to work for us free of charge. So did
everybody else. German public television broadcast a segment on
After 15 years of campaigning by IFAW, the ban on the ad and our campaign, and the ad plays regularly on five German
the cruel sport of hunting wild animals with dogs was TV stations. It received an audience award at Germany’s “Spotlight”
enacted on February 18, 2005. The law made it a festival and a bronze award at the Art Directors Club in New York.
criminal offence to use dogs to chase fox, deer, mink
and hares. This year marks the 4th anniversary of the IFAW’s state-of-the-art
research vessel Song of
ban and IFAW continues to defend this important piece the Whale.
of legislation and is training police forces all over the
country to ensure that the law is being properly enforced. Whales Rule USA
In Memoriam:
A Vision from the Heart
Planet Disney USA
The World is
IFAW’s mission began when a group of caring sided with IFAW and introduced a bill to end
individuals stepped out onto the Canadian Canada’s commercial seat hunt forever.
ice in 1969. Since that time, IFAW’s campaign
to end the Canadian commercial seal hunt The sealing industry is in economic turmoil
has been marked by many successes and as seal pelt prices are expected to drop yet
Watching
challenges. And this year stands to be again this year. In fact, the EU ban may mean
remembered as a year of historic victories: the end of Canada’s commercial seal hunt.
• In March, IFAW’s 15-year campaign in For 40 years, our supporters have helped us
Russia resulted in a ban on the slaughter fight for, and win, solid advances against this
of seal pups under 1 year old. The ban hunt. We secured the US import ban of seal
followed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s products in 1972. We won an EU ban on the
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When animals are in One badly burnt female kangaroo brought back from the Endeavour Hills fires, now healed and
out in the pen, has been ‘adopted’ by a male kangaroo. The big male opened the door of her pen
danger, they need our help. and coaxed her outside. Now they are inseparable - he is totally besotted with her and spends the
greater part of the day either lying next to her or grooming and clucking over her.
We never know what form an emergency will take, but when animals are in danger
we help wherever we can – often rushing experts to the scene within 48 hours.
From the bear hunt in Russia:
Whether one animal is crying out, or thousands need rescue, IFAW is there to help.
Ostakh, a tiny bear cub prematurely delivered by his mother during a two-day chase by hunters,
has grown from 360 grams to two kilos. He drinks 100 milliliters of milk every four hours and he’s
You can be there too. Your donation provides animals in danger the critical help
gaining strength. Ostakh can now crawl freely and he’s learning to stand up.
they need when disasters strike.
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next time an animal needs a helping hand.
Thank you for caring
for the animals.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare works to improve the
welfare of animals throughout the world by reducing commercial
exploitation, protecting wildlife habitats, and assisting animals in
distress. IFAW works to prevent cruelty to animals and to promote
animal welfare and conservation policies that advance the well
being of both animals and people.