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Marine Wildlife
US Consumers, Seafood Companies Urged to Boycott Mexican Shrimp to Save Vaquita Porpoise
Press ReleaseMarch 16, 2017Marine WildlifeConservation organizations today announced a boycott of all shrimp caught in Mexico to pressure Mexican officials to save the endangered vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, from imminent extinction. The campaign launched three...
Report: Only 30 Vaquita Porpoises Remain on Earth
Press ReleaseFebruary 2, 2017Marine WildlifeScientists announced this week that only an estimated 30 vaquita porpoises remain in the world. In a new report, the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA) recognizes that...
AWI Statement in Response to Death of SeaWorld Orca Tilikum
Press StatementJanuary 6, 2017Marine WildlifeTilikum, the SeaWorld orca who changed the captive cetacean world when he killed his trainer, Dawn Brancheau, at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010, has died. He was approximately 36 years of...
CITES Conference Convenes in Johannesburg
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeAWI wildlife attorney Tara Zuardo and wildlife biologist D.J. Schubert joined other animal welfare advocates, conservationists, government delegates, scientists, and industry representatives at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the...
Serendipity
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeSerendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature tells the story of ecologist James A. Estes’ work researching the unexpected collapse of sea otter populations in the Aleutians—specifically, how these declines played...
The Killer Whale who Changed the World
Marine WildlifeThe Killer Whale Who Changed the World, by Mark Leiren-Young, tells a fascinating story. Everything has to start somewhere, and captive display of this or that species is no exception....
AWI Works to Protect Wildlife in the Caribbean
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region—commonly referred to as the Cartagena Convention—is the only legally binding regional environmental treaty focused...
Dolphins Confined Under Arizona Sun
Marine WildlifeFor the first time in a decade, a new captive dolphin attraction has been built in the United States from the ground up, this time in Arizona. Dolphinaris, where customers...
Freed Dolphins Form Families
Marine WildlifeIn 2013, the Korean Animal Welfare Association (KAWA), local scientists, and government officials planned the release of five captive bottlenose dolphins—named Je-dol, Sampal, Chunsam, Taesan, and Boksoon—who had been illegally...
Georgia Aquarium Ends Wild Whale Acquisition Efforts
Marine WildlifeOn June 22, 2016, Georgia Aquarium announced it would no longer seek to acquire dolphins or beluga whales from the wild for its exhibits. While an important step forward, the...