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IAWA

International Animal Welfare Association

Welcome to the IAWA web site. We invite all to visit our site and learn more about our views and our efforts to protect our ability to continue working with our animals and sharing them with others.

We encourage all who share our views to join our efforts by participating in one or more of our support programs.

Together, we can make a difference and secure our rights to do what we feel is best for the ones we care so much about, our animals.

Feel free to contact us at any time with any concerns you may have about our activities or those of another organization. If you are a member and you are involved in an injustice towards your animals, your facility, or your business, we want to know. Your information may help us to insure that our industry is subject to uniform, regulatory and permitting requirements and enable us to assert the necessity of applying consistent, ethical standards to our industry as a whole through our lobbying activities and legal and regulatory intervention, where appropriate. Your support is a solid investment in your future and the future of your animals.

Our hopes and prayers are with a friend in need.

Linda Roberson came to animal training late in her life, at age 40. She worked with animals in various circuses and expositions over the last 15 or so years. Linda is an animal activist of the positive kind; she believes strongly that if the United States, the richest country in the world, doesn't work hard to breed and replenish the elephant population, that our grandchildren may not ever even see a real elephant.

We feel there is value in what she says. Currently, the U.S. allows no importing of elephants for any purpose, and the gene pool of elephants being bred in the U.S. is quite limited at this point. We can continue to breed the ones we have, but that gene pool is going to become tainted at some point with so few to share around.

Early last year, Linda suffered a debilitating stroke that almost took her life. Medical bills and the like have taken all that Linda had in life to include her home and personal belongings. Many of our members have followed the progress of Linda’s recovery by watching our site. Today Linda can be reached llr001@hotmail.com.

If you know Linda, I’m sure she’d welcome a friendly e-mail to let her know we haven’t forgotten about her. I’m sure she won’t ask but we know she could probably still use allot of help with her medical bills...

Farewell to a Special and Dear Friend to many in IAWA. Please, click here for more.