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Terrestrial Wildlife
Dog Crushed by Illegal Trap
Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeNovember 15, 2008 is a day that Rich Poska will never forget. While walking his 11-year-old therapy dog—a 55-pound Chinook named Rupert—around the White Deer Golf Course in Vernon Hills,...
Coyote and Fox Live Bait Training and Penning Condemned as Unethical & Ecologically Reckless
Press ReleaseNovember 11, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeMore than 40 scientists, veterinarians, and attorneys and a coalition of wildlife advocacy organizations including Project Coyote, Indiana Coyote Rescue (ICR), and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) have submitted a formal...
Trial Challenging Wind Energy Impacts on Endangered Bat Set to Begin in Federal Court
Press ReleaseOctober 21, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeToday a groundbreaking trial began in Federal District Court in Greenbelt, MD (6500 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt, MD 20770) pitting a massive wind energy development in West Virginia against the critically...
Wildlife Advocacy Organizations File Motion to Stop Start of Early Coyote & Fox Trapping in Maine to Protect Imperiled Lynx from Deadly Traps
Press ReleaseOctober 14, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the Wildlife Alliance of Maine (WAM) filed a motion in federal district court in Bangor Maine today seeking a preliminary injunction (PI) to stop Maine’s early...
US House of Representatives Takes Action to Protect Animals From Cruel Traps on National Wildlife Refuges
Press ReleaseOctober 2, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeYesterday, Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) introduced legislation to end the use of brutal traps on furbearing animals within federal wildlife refuges. H.R. 3710, the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, which was...
Birth Control Will Allow Horses to Continue Living a Wild Life
Terrestrial WildlifeThe debate over wild horses on public lands has been raging for decades. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), charged with their management, has rounded up tens of thousands of...
Carnivore Management in the US: The Need for Reform
Terrestrial WildlifeFew Americans have heard of the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services (WS) program. Even fewer are aware that their tax dollars subsidize the killing of millions of animals every year...
Down on the Goose and Duck Farm
Terrestrial WildlifeCorrection: In the AWI Quarterly Volume 58, Number 4, the article entitled, "Down on the Goose and Duck Farm" states that Cuddledown.com sells down products manufactured from the live-plucking of...
Rescued Parrots’ Fate Still Uncertain
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Florida breeding facility that has masqueraded as a sanctuary and received 31 macaws seized in Virginia (AWI Quarterly, Winter 2009), is liquidating and auctioning off all its birds and...
The Dark Side of the National Park Service
Terrestrial WildlifeFor many Americans, a visit to a national park can be an enlightening and awe-inspiring journey. From the splendor of a sunrise at the Grand Canyon to the sheer beauty...