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MONTH: May 2007

IFAW takes over Cape Cod
Stranding Network

 

HYANNIS--The not-quite-10-year-old Cape Cod Stranding Network is now a project of the Yarmouthport-based International Fund for Animal Welfare.

IFAW director of animals in crisis and distress A.J. Cady and Cape Cod Stranding Network executive director Katie Touhey announced the merger on April 11, 2007.

The five stranding network staff will join IFAW, now employing 135 head office personnel and 350 other people worldwide, reported Cape Cod Times staff writer Doug Fraser. Currently housed at the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay, the Cape Cod Stranding Network is to relocate soon to the new IFAW headquarters in Yarmouth.

"Cady said the $400,000 operating budget for the stranding network would be integrated with IFAW's budget, but fundraising and grant writing would continue separately," wrote Fraser.

IFAW now has total global revenue of about $90 million.

The Cape Cod Stranding Network assists about 220 stranded marine animals per year. The workload has increased over the years, surging during the winter of 2005-2006, when more than 100 common and whitesided dolphins and at least nine pilot whales became stranded along Cape Cod Bay after storms.

The merger announcement came less than a month after the Humane Society of the U.S. strengthened its presence on Cape Cod by breaking ground for a new Cape Wildlife Center in Cummaquid.

The new center will replace a much smaller site in West Barnstable, sponsored by HSUS since 1995.