Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Curtailing Mexico’s Exotic Bird Trade
Terrestrial WildlifeThe long-awaited amendment to Mexico’s wildlife law to protect its wild bird populations from exploitation was approved by Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa on October 13. The ban prohibits the...
Exotic Animal Smugglers Busted
Terrestrial WildlifeThough they’re usually intervening in illegal immigrant and drug trafficking schemes, Chilean officials put the kibosh on a massive illicit shipment of 427 exotic animals en route from Peru to...
Frogs Identify Predators Before Hatching
Terrestrial WildlifeFight or flight. They’re basic animal responses once considered purely instinctual—or perhaps strictly a natural learning process—but they may actually be a combination of the two. According to www.livescience.com, an experiment...
Glaring Deficiencies in GAO Report on Wild Horse and Burro Program
Terrestrial WildlifeWith the fate of thousands of America’s wild horses and burros at risk, there was palpable optimism when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced that it would be issuing a...
Hordes of Pelicans Mysteriously Dying
Terrestrial WildlifeScientists and wildlife conservationists are baffled by the sudden malaise plaguing hundreds of pelicans along the California coast this winter. Californians have been calling rescue centers constantly, having found disoriented,...
International SOS for Serbian Brown Bears
Terrestrial WildlifeSerbia, at the heart of former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, is one of the few places left in Europe where brown bears continue to be cruelly abused for profit and...
Life Behind Bars: The Exploitation of Caged Birds
Terrestrial WildlifeWhile many people are familiar with the inhumane nature of puppy mills—dog breeding operations where animals are overbred, overcrowded and often poorly cared for—most are unaware of mass-breeding bird facilities....
Pygmy Tarsiers Back from “Extinction”
Terrestrial WildlifeBelieved to be extinct, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates had not been seen alive since 1921. But an Indonesian scientist expedition in 2000 proved decades of assumptions...
The Coy Coyote: Learning to Coexist with an Adaptable Carnivore
Terrestrial WildlifeCoyotes and humans have shared the same environment since long before European settlers arrived in North America. To many Native American cultures, coyotes were powerful mythological figures endowed with the...
Freedom Moon
Terrestrial WildlifeFor 10 years, the Animals Asia Foundation has made it its mission to rescue and rehabilitate majestic moon bears from cruel bear bile farms in China and Vietnam. In celebration...