 | Welcome to our blog from our man in the Mara, Elias Kamande, Team Leader of Care for the Wild's Mara Anti-Poaching Team.Elias and his four team members, Kimoro, Nelson, Kilonga and Sireni are .. Read more ... |
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 | CWI are pleased to announce that Liz Bonnin, host of the BBC science programme "Bang Goes The Theory" has just become our second celebrity foster parent, having adopted Jasper the tiger... Read more ... |
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 | Draft government approval has been given to applications from two petroleum companies, to carry out seismic surveys in and around the Moray Firth in Scotland... Read more ... |
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 | Care for the Wild International (CWI) has complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following the broadcast of an advert by Tesco PLC for their Clubcard Credit Card.
The advert, which .. Read more ... |
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 | The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, along with the contiguous Mara Reserve in its northern neighbour Kenya, is home to some of the most magnificent wildlife on earth, including 70 species of .. Read more ... |
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 | CWI is delighted to announce that respected actor, Anthony Head has joined our many supporters as a foster parent of Naika, one of the chimpanzee's on our adoption programme.
Anthony, star of .. Read more ... |
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 | Born in April 2002 the Jhurjura Tigress should now be in her prime, but, on the 18th May 2010, she was rammed repeatedly, and died the next day, leaving behind 3 small cubs.
When our long term .. Read more ... |
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 | The Welsh Assembly’s plans to instigate a cull of badgers in Pembrokeshire, in a misguided attempt to control tuberculosis in cattle, were halted in the High Court in Cardiff on 13th July. The High .. Read more ... |
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| CWI has been proud to support Wild Futures with some important issues over the last few months, including campaigning against the use of primates as pets in the UK and providing emergency financial assistance to help a primate rescue centre in Chile that had been badly damaged after the earthquake. So, when we were offered the chance to work with Wild Futures on our tourism campaign, we jumped at the chance! Read more ... |
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 | In January this year, the Welsh Assembly Minister for Rural Affairs Elin Jones announced that a “limited cull” of badgers would take place in Pembrokeshire starting in May, in an attempt to control .. Read more ... |
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 | At the recent meeting in Morocco, the IWC meeting failed to agree to the so-called "Peace Plan" that would have seen an IWC-sanctioned and controlled return to commercial whaling... Read more ... |
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 | The UK government's public consultation on the use of wild animals in circuses has revealed overhwelming public support for an outright ban. The Animal Welfare Minister Jim Fitzpatrick has .. Read more ... |
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The brutal slaughter of hundreds of dolphins off the Japanese coast at Taiji has received international condemnation. Now the meat from dolphins and whales slaughtered for meat in Japan has been .. Read more ... |
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 | In spite of international regulation and condemnation, Iceland resumed commercial whaling in 2006. The previous Icelandic government set quotas allowing the slaughter of 150 endangered fin whales, .. Read more ... |
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Pet primates were the subject of a reception held at the Houses of Parliament on December 10th. The reception was organised by Wild Futures (formerly the Monkey Sanctuary Trust) and the RSPCA, and .. Read more ... |
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 | The future of primate use in research in the EU will be shaped over the next few days, as ministers, the Commission, and the Parliament discuss new rules on the use of animals in experimentation... Read more ... |
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The Norwegian government has set new quotas for the killing of wild carnivores, according to an article in December's issue of the BBC Wildlife magazine. The quotas, which the article claims .. Read more ... |
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Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh): His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje has appealed to his fellow Tibetans not to harm wildlife, at an awareness event organised by Wildlife Trust .. Read more ... |
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Why Care for the Wild International wants Tesco to
stop selling live turtles and frogs in its Chinese stores
Download the CWI Factsheet on Tesco Turtles here.. Read more ... |
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 | With the warm winter in the Gulf of St Lawrence resulting in the lowest sea-ice levels for 40 years, Canada's harp seals face a disastrous breeding season. But with the Canadian government .. Read more ... |
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