Program Term Archive

Terrestrial Wildlife

Nine New House Bills Continue All-Out Assault on Endangered Species Act

Press ReleaseJuly 13, 2018Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial Wildlife

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) strongly opposes a package of nine bills, 8 of which were introduced today by a coalition of Republican representatives, that would collectively demolish key aspects...

New Senate Bill Undercuts Endangered Species Act

Press ReleaseJuly 3, 2018Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial Wildlife

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is expressing vehement opposition to draft legislation, released yesterday by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), entitled the Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2018. According to AWI,...

US Fish & Wildlife Service Plan Dooms Remaining Wild Red Wolves to Extinction

Press ReleaseJune 27, 2018Terrestrial Wildlife

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a proposal today to confine red wolves to federal lands—including a bombing range—within Dare County, North Carolina. Carrying out such a plan...

Citizens Trip Bobcat Trapping Proposals in Two States

Terrestrial Wildlife

This year, Indiana and Ohio officials floated the idea of establishing trapping seasons for bobcats in their respective states (and a hunting season in Indiana). Fortunately, after local AWI members...

Lion Hearted

Terrestrial Wildlife

Author Andrew Loveridge is a veteran wildlife biologist with many years’ experience working on lion research in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Raised in Zimbabwe and educated at Oxford, he’s the...

The Great Apes

Terrestrial Wildlife

The Great Apes: A Short History, recently translated from French into English, is a comprehensive history of primatology. Many readers may not know that the roots of primatology lie in...

The New York Pigeon

Terrestrial Wildlife

Photographer Andrew Garn’s book is a coffee table love letter to a bird that doesn’t always get much love. Garn explains their long history cohabitating with humans. He examines their...

Esmond Martin

Terrestrial Wildlife

We were never close but we were friendly—on the same side in every fight. And we cooperated so frequently over the years that we came to anticipate each other’s involvement...

At Elephants’ Expense, USFWS Sticks to Its Guns

Terrestrial Wildlife

In November 2017, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced it was reversing a 2014 Obama administration ban on the importation of sport-hunted elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. (See AWI...

Finding Noninvasive Methods to Survey Wild Horse Populations

Equines, Terrestrial Wildlife

The 23,882-acre Jarita Mesa Wild Horse Territory (JMWHT) is located in rugged, forested mountain terrain in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico. Prior to passage of the Wild Free-Roaming...