Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Congress Introduces Legislation to Ban Wildlife Killing Contests on Public Lands
Press ReleaseApril 5, 2022Terrestrial WildlifeFifteen members of Congress introduced legislation today that would prohibit organizing, sponsoring, conducting, or participating in wildlife killing contests on more than 500 million acres of US public lands. The...
400,000+ Native Animals Killed by Wildlife Services Program in 2021
Press ReleaseApril 1, 2022Terrestrial WildlifeThe US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program reported last week that it had shot, trapped, and poisoned more than 400,000 native animals in 2021. The death toll included more...
AWI Scholarship Winners Lead Grassroots Efforts to Improve Animals’ Lives
Press ReleaseMarch 18, 2022Companion Animals, Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the 15 winners of a scholarship designed to support high school seniors who are pursuing a post-secondary education intended to better the lives...
Five Years After “Cyanide Bomb” Injures Idaho Teen, Efforts Continue to Ban Deadly Devices
Press ReleaseMarch 16, 2022Terrestrial WildlifeThis week marks the five-year anniversary of an Idaho teen nearly being fatally poisoned by an M-44, commonly known as a “cyanide bomb.” The incident received worldwide media coverage and...
Finding the Mother Tree
Terrestrial WildlifeTo care about animal welfare is to care about the environment in which animals live. In Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Dr. Suzanne Simard puts it...
Living Planet
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth—a fully updated edition of Sir David Attenborough’s 1984 book that accompanied the BBC’s Living Planet documentary series—the famed naturalist takes readers on a journey...
E.O. Wilson
Terrestrial Wildlife1929–2021 Born in Alabama, Dr. E. O. Wilson spent his formative years exploring forests and tidal pools, an activity that inspired a lifetime of inquiry and discovery. After completing his...
Thomas Lovejoy
Terrestrial Wildlife1941–2021 The life and career of Dr. Thomas Lovejoy—who coined the term “biological diversity”—was dedicated to the protection of the planet. After Lovejoy obtained a bachelor’s degree and PhD from...
Assessing the Usefulness of Blood Samples to Monitor for Exposure to Anticoagulant Rodenticide in Red-Tailed Hawks
Terrestrial WildlifeAnticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) are rodent poisons that have been widely used globally for decades for the control of commensal rodents (those who live off what they obtain from human communities)....
AWI Aids Wildlife Impacted by Australian Fires
Terrestrial WildlifeThe wildfires that raged across Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 were unprecedented in scope and severity. Nearly 3 billion animals, it is estimated, were killed or displaced, including...