Program Term Archive
Marine Wildlife
Making a Splash: Animal Advocates Flood Capitol Hill to Shore Up Support for MMPA
Marine WildlifeOn November 15, a coalition of nine environmental and animal protection groups, including AWI, hosted a Lobby Day and reception on Capitol Hill to celebrate—and defend—the Marine Mammal Protection Act...
Orca Triomphe: France Bans Breeding of Cetaceans
Marine WildlifeIn 2010, Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld Orlando, killed Dawn Brancheau, his trainer for the previous six years. Since that tragic event, the campaign to end the captive display...
Trader Joe’s Shuns Mexican Shrimp to Help Save Vaquita
Marine WildlifeOn October 11, the Trader Joe’s grocery chain announced that it would stop sourcing shrimp from Mexico in response to a request from the Boycott Mexican Shrimp campaign, led by...
USFWS Denies Protection to Pacific Walrus
Marine WildlifeOn October 4, the US Fish and Wildlife Service ruled against adding the Pacific walrus to the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Although the...
House Committee Approves Anti-wildlife Bills
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeFor 45 years, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has succeeded in its mission to protect individual marine mammals, as well as entire populations, from harassment, injury, and death due...
Shark Lady
Marine WildlifeWhen Eugenie Clark was growing up, smart girls had few career choices. Secretary? Housewife? Sure. Marine biologist? Not for girls, she was told. But Clark would not be deterred. Since...
Where the Animals Go
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeWhere the Animals Go is a unique book that contains full-color maps with detailed tracking information for one after another animal species—from whales, elephants, and orangutans to turtles, ants, and plankton....
Japan Receives Pass for Illegal Whale Meat Trade at CITES Standing Committee Meeting
Press ReleaseNovember 28, 2017Marine WildlifeThe Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) missed an opportunity this week to put an end to Japan’s massive...
Legal Notice Pushes US to Embargo Mexican Seafood Caught with Vaquita Porpoise-Killing Nets
Press ReleaseNovember 21, 2017Marine WildlifeConservation groups filed a legal notice today pressing the US government to ban seafood caught from Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California in an effort to save the last remaining vaquita...
Miranda Cosgrove Joins Science, Business Leaders in Washington to Defend Marine Mammal Protection Act
Press ReleaseNovember 16, 2017Marine WildlifeActress and activist Miranda Cosgrove late yesterday joined approximately 50 science and business leaders from across the country in Washington, DC to urge members of Congress to defend the Marine Mammal...