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2011 Issue no. 8

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A New Home or Soni ...and eorts to protect elephants around the world.

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Animal MattersIFAW news rom around the world.

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A Day in the Lie ...Caring or pets in South Arica.page 13

Unrelenting DisastersIFAW rushes to the rescue.

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Missing MomClouded leopard cubs get a second chance.

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Im proud to share our expanded eature this month aboutIFAWs ongoing eorts to protect elephants around the world,starting with the heartelt tale o returning elephant calves toreedom in India.

There are also amazing stories about brave people makingextraordinary eorts or animals ... rom a dedicated vet in SouthArica to rescuers in Australia and Egypt. And Im thrilled to tellyou that Russia has nally banned its winter den hunt or bears.

As recent events have proven, the world is changing rapidly.With you by our side, IFAW is helping to change it or the better!

Fred OReganPresident and Chie Executive Ocer

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Sae and Wild

With expert care, her condition improved.

Just two weeks later she was well enough

to be introduced to other baby elephants

who had been separated rom their herds

and injured, or rescued rom desperate

circumstances.

That was our years ago. In February 2011,

Soni and our male elephants between three

and six years o age were brought rom the

rescue center to Manas National Park, a

protected reserve, to begin the nal phase

o their long journey back to reedom.

Convoys o Hope

IFAW has been very successul transporting

elephants through the years (you may

remember the recent moves o 83

elephants in Malawi and nine elephants in

Zimbabwe).

In Manas National Park, the calves will

be watched over by caretakers until they

orsake human company and are accepted

by a herd. Their progress will be monitored

through radio-collars.

Soni and her riends are enjoying their new

home and embarking on a journey made

possible by IFAWs generous supporters: asecond chance at living as wild elephants.

In addition to raising baby elephants in

India, IFAW has helped rescue, rehabilitate

and release back to the wild an incredible

variety o species like brown bears, rhinos,

clouded leopards, alcons, wallabies,

koalas, and the list goes on. IFAW is

committed to making sure that, whenever

possible, wild animals are returned to their

natural habitat.

Sonis story is just one example o IFAWs

commitment to making sure elephants live

their lives in the wild, while also saeguarding

their natural habitats. IFAWs elephant

projects in India, Arica and China use

dierent methods, but their goals are the

same to protect wild elephants in their

ancestral homes. Here are some o our

recent eorts:

Keeping Track o Tsavos Elephants

An elephant census was recently conducted

in the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem in Kenya

and Tanzania so that IFAW and Kenya

Wildlie Service can determine the best way

to protect the pachyderm residents. The

preliminary 2011 results showed 12,572

elephants an increase o 2% rom 2008s

gure o 11,696. This slight increase is

promising but elephants are still under threat

rom poaching, human encroachment and

habitat destruction.

To urther our protection o elephants in

Tsavo, IFAW and the Kenya Wildlie Service

satellite-collared ve bulls and emales to

see where they migrate and when. Three

more elephants will be collared soon. This

will help us learn ways to keep elephants out

o confict with humans, a key actor in the

decline o elephant populations.

IFAW CEO Fred ORegan was on hand

or the delicate collaring exercise, and

he was moved by the experience. This

is conservation work on the ront lines,

he said. I know the data we collect rom

these collars will help us make lie-saving

decisions.

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Veterinarians careully tranquilized the elephants, then worked quickly toattach the collars and revive them so they suered minimal distress.

Protecting ElephantsWhere They Live

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The Crown Jewel o Malawi

In Malawi, IFAW has entered a ve-year

partnership with the Department o National

Parks and Wildlie to help resolve the

challenges aced by Liwonde National

Park, one o the most important havens

or biodiversity in southern Arica. But the

survival o many o Liwondes animals

including its elephant population o about

500 individuals and rhinos are under threat

rom commercial poaching.

By training and equipping park rangers

and providing Liwonde with the tools andequipment needed to combat poaching and

maintain security, IFAW is helping to protect

this Crown Jewel o Malawis National Parks.

Using Science to Inorm Policy

In partnership with the Conservation Ecology

Research Unit o the University o Pretoria,

South Arica, IFAW has made an enormous

contribution to enhancing our understanding

o elephants and their population dynamics

in southern Arica. Through this work, IFAW

has played an instrumental role in ensuring

the South Arican Government maintains its

1994 moratorium on culling in national parks.

Now IFAW is working to ensure that uture

management decisions and policies in

southern Arica continue to be based

on sound science to achieve long-term

protection or elephants. There are ew

better examples o science having such a

positive impact on both animal welare and

conservation policies.

Studying Social Bonds

A severe drought and poaching in East

Arica in 2009 killed close to 400 o 1,550

elephants in Amboseli, Kenya. Nearly all

the experienced matriarchs died, and the

surviving amily members appeared to be in

a state o social conusion. IFAW is working

with The Amboseli Elephant Research

Project to study how the amilies will cope

with these losses and the eect on the

stability o the elephant society as a whole.

From saving young calves in distressto deending whole herds against

poaching ... fghting to stem theloss o habitat and key migration

corridors ... and studying socialbonds when matriarchs die too soon

... IFAW is working hard to helpelephants survive.

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IFAW is working to saeguardhabitat or elephants and otheranimals in Malawi.

IFAW is helpingto train and equiprangers in Malawito catch poachersin LiwondeNational Park.

We are studying elephant amiliesto learn more about their socialdynamics.

IFAW follows many paths inour efforts to protect elephantsfrom habitat loss and trade:

In India, IFAW and our partner the Wildlie Trust

o India have identied 88 elephant corridors

along critical migration routes and we are

working to secure them.

In China, IFAW has been working or 11 years

to protect Yunnans last 300 elephants through

micro-loans to armers and environmental

education. Now 25 villages voluntarily monitor

elephants in the area to prevent confict with

communities.

IFAWs investigations o Internet markets have

exposed ivory on sale in China, Germany, the

Netherlands, UK and US. We have convinced

many online retailers to remove ivory rom their

sites but more must be done to end this

deadly trade.

IFAW is training rangers in a number o

elephant range countries to combat wildlie

trackers. At INTERPOL, we have unded

a Criminal Intelligence Ocer or Wildlie

since 2006.

This spring, villagers in Yunnan, China,celebrated when a new cal reached its100-day birthday!

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Combating

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Protecting Elephants

Some of IFAWs most important

work occurs far from the African

plains and Asian forests. To

completely stop the international

trade in ivory, we must also

work with governments and

regulatory conventions to close

ivory markets.

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antique shopping at home please

be on the lookout or ivory. It may be

whittled into chopsticks, strung togetheror jewelry, inlaid into urniture or carved

into ornaments, but every piece o ivory

represents a dead elephant. Please buy

local handicrats or non-ivory antiques and

keep elephants alive!

Protecting Elephants All Aroundthe World

With your support, IFAW can put an end

to the ivory trade and habitat destruction

that is threatening the survival o the earths

magnicent elephants. We know you join

us in hoping to see little elephants like Soni

and her riends grow up secure in the wild in

their native lands, ree to live and raise their

amilies in peace.

Seeing these magnifcent animalsin their natural habitat inspires me,

and I hope all o us, to work even

harder to protect them rom the ever-

increasing threats they ace as their

world shrinks around them. Fred ORegan, IFAW CEO

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rie news o IFAWs recent activitiesnd successes around the world

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In Castries, St. Lucia, IFAW and the Ministry oAgriculture, Lands, Fisheries and Forestry conducted

a workshop or 35 ocials rom the Organisation o

Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The workshop

taught customs agents, orestry ocials, police ocers,

veterinarians and wildlie law enorcement ocials ways

to more eectively prevent illegal wildlie trade across

the region.

This area is home to many endangered and threatened

species such as parrots, snakes and amphibians.

However, illegal trade is a major threat to these animals.

They are oten captured to supply the global demand

or exotic pets, meat and luxury goods.

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n March, Russia passed legislation banning the cruel

hunting practice o rousing bears rom their dens

during winter hibernation and then shooting them.

Oten this let tiny bear cubs orphaned and the cubs

would quickly die o starvation or reeze to death.

FAW has campaigned to end this hunt since 1995. Todate, IFAW has successully rescued, rehabilitated and

released more than 150 orphaned cubs rom our bear

rescue center back to the wild.

Victory! Baby BearsSaved rom Hunt

china

This year marks the 10th anniversary o IFAWs Beijing

Raptor Rescue Center. To honor the occasion, China

Radio International ran a story on our eorts to

rehabilitate injured and sick birds o prey. For the last

decade, the center has cared or more than 3,000

birds, with an average o 55 percent o them released

back into the wild.

IFAW on ChinaRadio International

An endangered Royal Bengal tiger who was radio-collared and

released last year in Assam, India, was caught by a camera

trap 9 months later, showing it is doing well.

The tiger was originally captured ater it strayed into a house

and killed two people. Following a rare decision by ocials to

spare his lie, the tiger was taken to IFAWs Wildlie Rescue

Center, tted with a radio collar and transported by truck some

280 miles (450 km) to the protection o Manas National Park in

the oothills o the Himalayas.

The really good news here is that there have been no reports

o attacks on people by this tiger since its release, which

strengthens the case or rehabilitation o tigers that accidentally

come into conict with people, said Ian Robinson, IFAWs

Emergency Relie Director.

Tiger Caught on Camera inDiauS

When more than 350 dogs and 15 cats were seized

rom cruelty and neglect in Ohio, IFAW sta rushed

o help document evidence, shelter and care or thesick and rightened animals. Many o the dogs had

wounds, skin conditions or illnesses. Some were

aggressive or dicult to handle because they had

never been socialized or elt a loving touch. The owner

o the deplorable acility where these animals lived is

acing eleven criminal charges.

FAW responded ater the ASPCA and the local

humane society requested our assistance due to our

expertise in large-scale rescue operations ollowing

disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina which slammed

Louisiana in 2005. The case is pending in court.

Neglected Dogs Seized

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In Prole

Saskia is the sole veterinarian at the

IFAW-unded clinic which services the

animal welare needs o 37 impoverished

communities. Indeed, she is the only

veterinarian that many o these animals andtheir owners will ever see.

On a typical day Saskia will rst treat all the

inpatients waiting eagerly or her arrival.

Patients like Calico, an endearing kitten

whose jaw was ractured in an automobile

accident. Or Sugar, a puppy suering rom

parvovirus, a deadly disease very prevalent

in the communities. Or Meide, an older dog,

who was the victim o eating rat poison.

Then Saskia will move on to her daily

surgeries, while in between treating an

average o ten emergencies a day, not to

mention her outpatients the dogs and

cats brought in because they are not eating

or have kennel cough.

Every day is dierent, but what I love most

about my job is the challenge o dealing

with difcult cases that are not in the book,

watching the seemingly hopeless cases get

better and then fnding them special homes

i the owners dont want them any more.

One o Saskias avorite patients was

Patches, a little awn colored stray.

Patches was a little skeleton when he

came in. He had biliary; he couldnt keep

any ood down and vomited badly. I took

him home or the weekend and carried him

into the garden to go to the bathroom. I put

him on a drip, kept treating him, and stayed

with him at the clinic. We just didnt give up

and look at him now! Hes healthy, happy

and plays with other puppies at his oster

home hes even bossing them around.

I love watching miracles happen and trying

to save as many little souls as we can.

So ar Saskia and the clinic under the

direction o wonderul Cora Bailey have

helped over 64,721 little souls.

D. Sski Kis s Pchs

The IFAW-unded clinic truly

saves lives every day. I am

so grateul or the support o

IFAW donors. Contributions

have paid or a new van, an

x-ray machine, and or medicine, bandages, even

blankets to comort recovering cats and dogs. Right

now the clinic desperately needs to expand. I you

can, please make a contribution to help animals

today by mail, or online at www.iaw.org/woadonate.

Thank you or helping.

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It is still dark when IFAW veterinarian Dr. Saskia Kariusrises in her bedroom in Johannesburg, South Arica, andshe is never quite sure what the day will bring.

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ly the Seal attended I Love Nova Scotia Day

February with IFAW and the Atlantic Canadian

ti-Sealing Coalition, to deliver a special valentine

Premier Darrell Dexter. Unortunately the Premier

urned Sallys advances although the crowds

ed her.

ree days later, the government authorized a

ughter o up to 60,000 grey seal pups in the

ovince. IFAW is urging Premier Dexter to protect

regions wild seal populations as part o its natural

ritage rather than allowing them to be inhumanely

nted or their ur.

Sally the Seal LovesNova Scotia

DOminica

any thanks to everyone who voted or Clearing the

ay or Sea Turtles at the Disney Friends or Change

oject Green website! IFAW has won $50,000 to

minate plastic bag litter in coastal communities on

Caribbean island o Dominica.

dangered leatherback sea turtles, the largest sea

tles, easily mistake plastics in the ocean or its

mary prey jellysh. Dominicas beaches are one

he ew remaining leatherback nesting sites. IFAW

use the unds to distribute cloth shopping bags

more than 2,000 students and teachers through

r Floating Classroom marine educational program,

ducing the demand or plastic bags on the island.

anks to Disney, IFAW is making a big dierence or

tles in a small, but critical, corner o the world.

Clearing the Way orTurtles

IFAW was delighted to see an unprecedentednumber o animal welare and conservation

proposals put orth at the annual meetings o

China Peoples Congress and Peoples Political

Consultative Committee. The proposals covered

issues we have been working on or many years

tiger arming and trade ... Canadian seal imports ...

bear arming ... shark n trade ... and enacting the

countrys rst animal welare legislation.

Even as we savor this historic moment, we are

working to ensure these proposals are passed

into law.

Great Strides in China china

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Rushing to the Rescue

rescuers and trained volunteers carried the

hal-ton whale up a 40-t. dune, transported

it via trailer to deeper water and successully

released it.

Following record-breaking foods and a

category 5 cyclone in Australia, IFAWs

veterinary team treated all kinds o animals

rom a koala with a wrist injury and a

wallaby with a head trauma, to barn owls and

cockatoos and starlings with ractured bones.

In addition to hands-on help, IFAW

conducted a clinic to teach local rehabilitators

about acute and long-term veterinary

procedures, ood and supplements, and

translocation and sheltering techniques or

displaced animals.

When violence erupted in Cairo, hundreds

o horses that normally caravanned tourists

to the pyramids were let to starve. IFAW

rushed emergency unds to help eed over

430 horses. We also helped house andcare or more than 250 dogs and cats

abandoned or lost as people were orced to

evacuate during the turmoil.

Following the earthquake, tsunami and

nuclear crisis that devastated Japan in

March, IFAW dispatched teams to the

hardest hit areas to oer support to those

caring or animals. IFAW also met with local

and ederal representatives to discuss the

dangers to animals inside the radiation

evacuation area and advised on monitoring,

treatment and evacuation o contaminated

animals.

Internationally Respected

IFAWs Emergency Relie team is trained to

operate in dicult circumstances. We work

with local communities, oten at the requesto governments, to alleviate suering during

emergencies. In partnership with numerous

coalitions and alliances, we also assist local

ocials in preparing or uture disasters.

Over the past ve years, IFAW has

responded to more than 50 disasters and

emergencies in more than 25 countries

worldwide.

The number o individual animals needing

rescue increased as well ... a two-week-

old abandoned rhino in India ... three new

orphan bear cubs in Russia ... 114 neglected

horses seized rom a US arm ... 482starving penguin chicks in South Arica.

From the largest to the smallest, thousands

o animals have received lie-saving care

because IFAWs Emergency Relie team

was there.

Whales to Wallabies, Saving Lives

When a pilot whale stranded in rough sur

along the Massachusetts shore, IFAW

Over the past ew months, communities around the world have witnessedunrelenting disasters ... rom foods and a cyclone in Australia, to politicalturmoil in Egypt and neighboring countries, to the terriying chain ocatastrophes in Japan.

you can help us be read for the next disaster at www.ifawrescue.org. Please join our efforts toda!

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In March, a man cutting woodinside Indias Greater ManasNational Park came upon two

clouded leopard cubs andscooped them up.

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International Headquarters

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Yarmouth Port, MA 02675

Founded in 1969, IFAW (the International

Fund or Animal Welare) saves animals in

crisis around the world. With ofces in 15

countries, IFAW rescues individual animals,

works to prevent cruelty to animals, and

advocates or the protection o wildlie and

their habitats.

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Fortunately they were conscated and given to

veterinarians rom IFAW and our partner organization

Wildlie Trust o India, who rushed them back to the

orest in hopes o nding their mother.

But their mom never returned. So the vets transerredthe two-month-old cubs to the Kokrajhar Mobile

Veterinary Service (MVS) unit a satellite station o

IFAWs Wildlie Rescue Center or care until they are

stronger and can return to the wild.

We expect to reintroduce these rare leopards to the

wild when they are ready. In 2009, we successully

released two other orphaned clouded leopard cubs

back to the wild.

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