Program Term Archive
Marine Wildlife
Iceland Resumes Killing of Endangered Fin Whales
Press ReleaseJune 17, 2013Marine WildlifeIcelandic media are reporting that the Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf killed an endangered fin whale Monday in defiance of the international ban on commercial whaling. The whale was killed...
AWI’S Rally for Whales in Portland, ME
Press ReleaseJune 3, 2013Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute and other US animal protection and conservation groups organized a rally in Portland, Maine, on May 31, 2013, to protest Iceland’s expanding commercial whaling program. The...
Huge Demand Herding Seahorses into Extinction
Marine WildlifeWith a horse’s head, the snout of an aardvark, a chameleon’s color changing abilities and independently operating eyes, a monkey-like prehensile tail, and—in males, not females—a marsupial’s pouch for the...
AWI Rallies for Whales in Maine
Marine WildlifeAWI was joined by local whale advocates in Portland, Maine, on May 31, 2013, to protest Iceland’s expanding commercial whaling program and plan to resume fi n whaling. The rally...
No Respite for Whales
Marine WildlifeThe International Whaling Commission (IWC) isn’t meeting this year, but the whales themselves are getting no break from whalers. Despite a ban on the international trade in whale meat, Norway...
SeaWorld Fined Again over Trainer Death
Marine WildlifeSeaWorld Orlando has again been fined and labeled a repeat offender by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for continuing to operate a workplace that can “cause death or...
Working Through the IWC to Help Whales Steer Clear of Fishing Gear
Marine WildlifeWhales have been getting entangled in man-made ropes and nets, probably, since the first fishermen began to use these materials to catch fish thousands of years ago. However, before the...
Putting CITES Protections into Practice in West Africa
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeAWI is following up on the successful efforts to obtain international trade protections for the imperiled West African manatee under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
Protecting State Shark Fin Bans
Marine WildlifeThe Shark Conservation Act (SCA) of 2010 combats the heinous practice of shark finning—cutting off a shark's fins and discarding the body, often still alive, into the sea—by requiring that...
Blackfish
Marine WildlifeBlackfish is a documentary film that tells the story of Tilikum—the now infamous orca, or killer whale, who dragged, shook and eventually drowned SeaWorld of Orlando trainer Dawn Brancheau in February...