Zoos are no place for wild animals. As the director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Azzedine Downes writes, most zoos merely exist as live storage facilities and are a discouraging acquiescence to a world without animals roaming in the wild.
Date: Jun 20, 2016
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
African Lions Given Real Protections, Activists Say
rvation efforts in general. Nearly 450,000 lions roamed vast ranges of Africa in the mid-century; today, there may be as few as 20,000. It is believed that they have declined 60 percent over the past three decades alone," said Azzedine Downes, International Fund for Animal Welfare president and CEO.
Date: Dec 26, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Hunter pays $350000 to kill endangered black rhino
Opponents like the International Fund for Animal Welfare have not been swayed, saying hunting as conservation is a bankrupt notion. Well simply never agree with that, fund director Azzedine Downes said. Theres a lot of other things that we can and must do in order to protect these animals.
Date: May 20, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
US hunter kills rare black rhino: 'I believe in survival of the species'
These are incredibly majestic creatures, and their worth alive is far greater than [when] they are dead, said Azzedine Downes, of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), one of the conservation groups opposed to the hunt.
"This is a way to say to people we are not putting a value on ivory. We're putting a value on the lives of the elephants," said Azzedine Downes, president of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which works with U.S. agents to enforce animal protection laws.