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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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