Spring 2024
volume:73
issue:1
About the Cover:
A red kangaroo hops across an Australian spring meadow. In Australia, kangaroo imagery is everywhere—on national and state coats of arms, police badges, the tourism agency logo, airplane tail fins, and more. Yet, every year in Australia, about 5 million red and other kangaroo species are killed in unsupervised nighttime hunts to supply meat and skins for a global market. An international campaign to protect Australia’s most iconic animal, however, is turning the tide against this inhumane and unsustainable practice.
In this Issue: AWI helps secure protections for Caribbean wildlife, reports on conditions for captive orcas in China, and pushes for US standards to prevent grueling long-distance transport of newborn calves and others unfit to travel. In a Colorado corral, tragic consequences of the BLM’s wild horse management failures. National Primate Research Centers seek to expand while ignoring chronic welfare issues. And a global campaign to end the brutal annual cull of Australia’s kangaroos gains steam.
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