International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

IFAW protects animals and the places they call home.

Our vision is a world where animals are respected and protected. With offices in 16 countries and projects in more than 40 countries, we rescue individual animals, safeguard populations, preserve habitat, and advocate for a better future.

Founded in 1969, IFAW has provided almost 50 years of global leadership, innovation and hands-on assistance to animals and communities in need. Our holistic conservation approach includes reducing the demand and exploitation of wildlife at the source; working together with communities and enforcers to shut down poaching networks; pioneering first-ever successes in the rescue, rehabilitation and release of orphan animals back into the wild; activating where needed most in the wake of global disasters; and advocating through expert research and solutions to the greatest threats to our planet’s populations and habitats.

Leaving a Gift in your Will to IFAW is a loving and lasting way to help protect animals and is vital to our work. In fact, for every five animals IFAW rescues, one is saved thanks to gifts in Wills. This amounts to thousands of animals every year, helped by the compassionate people who want their love for animals to live on through their legacy.