A mother and baby loon float across water

Volume 72  Issue 1

Spring 2023

In this Issue

A retrospective on the Christine Stevens Wildlife Awards—advancing win-win solutions for wildlife and people. Animal care staff recount personal triumphs in the ongoing effort to provide better lives for animals in research. AWI seeks significant reforms to USDA oversight of animal slaughter. More scrutiny over potential wildlife trafficking in Cambodia-to-US primate pipeline. Birds in pet trade and exhibits gain long-overdue Animal Welfare Act protections. AWI fondly remembers three marine life champions.

A mother and baby common loon. In 2011, Dr. Mark Pokras of Tufts University received a Christine Stevens Wildlife Award from AWI for a study testing the use of digital image software to identify individual common loons. The award program, launched in 2006, provides grants to researchers seeking to develop innovative strategies and tools to humanely resolve human-wildlife conflicts and conduct wildlife research in a way that causes minimal disturbance to the animals being studied. Read more about the award program and some of the research it has supported over the years.

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Featured in This Issue

AWI Proposes Slaughter Reforms to Help Protect Poultry and Public Health

Farmed Animals
Pigs in a cage truck for transport to the slaughterhouse.

AWI Seeks Animal Welfare Measures in 2023 Farm Bill

Farmed Animals

Expanded Port Portends Doom for Taiwanese White Dolphin

Marine Wildlife
Don kayaking on Vermont's Silver Lake in 2020

In Remembrance

Marine Wildlife
Making Positive Changes for Animals in Laboratories: A LAREF Discussion
Animals in Laboratories
The Christine Stevens Wildlife Awards: Advancing Win-Win Solutions for Wildlife and People
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial Wildlife

More in this Issue

AVMA Strengthens Pain Relief Recommendations

 Farmed Animals

AWI Aids Effort to Save Hawaiian Honeycreepers

 Terrestrial Wildlife

AWI Gears Up for Important Caribbean Conservation Meetings

 Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial Wildlife

AWI Petitions for Meaningful Oversight of Custom Slaughter

 Farmed Animals

AWI-Backed Bills Introduced in 118th Congress

As Demand Sinks, Whaling Companies Scramble to Stay Afloat

 Marine Wildlife

Bird Flu Continues to Threaten Domestic and Wild Animals

 Farmed Animals

Birds in Pet Trade and Exhibits Gain Animal Welfare Act Protections

 Companion Animals, Terrestrial Wildlife

CITES Effective… If Enforced

 Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial Wildlife

Cambodian Primate Pipeline Draws More Scrutiny

 Animals in Laboratories, Terrestrial Wildlife

Cetacean Captivity: USDA Walks Away in Miami, Dolphin Show Shuttered in Vegas

 Marine Wildlife

Closing the Book on 117th Congress

 Companion Animals, Equines, Farmed Animals, Marine Wildlife

Expanded Port Portends Doom for Taiwanese White Dolphin

 Marine Wildlife

Fish Recognize Themselves in Photographs

 Animals in Laboratories

Lobster and Crab Gear Continue to Threaten Right Whales

 Marine Wildlife

Park Service Plans Wild Horse Purge

 Equines, Terrestrial Wildlife

Restoration Project Is Death Knell for Barataria Bay Dolphins

 Marine Wildlife

Scientists Detect Pathogen Invaders Non-invasively

 Animals in Laboratories, Terrestrial Wildlife

Students: Raise Your Voice for Animals!

Virginia Legislature Weighs Bills Affecting Animal Welfare

Reviews

tail of a beaver sticking out

Beaverland

 Terrestrial Wildlife
green outlines of land animals

Pests

 Terrestrial Wildlife
illustrated mammoth in modern day forest

Wild New World