Spring 2023

volume:72
issue:1

About the Cover:

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.

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 loon float across water

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