Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Bordallo and Young Introduce Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2018
Press ReleaseMay 8, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeCongresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-Guam) and Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska) today introduced the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2018, which is endorsed by the Animal Welfare Institute and other...
Dr. Samuel K Wasser Receives Prestigious Albert Schweitzer Medal
Press ReleaseApril 10, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeDr. Samuel K Wasser, acknowledged worldwide for developing noninvasive tools for monitoring human impacts on wildlife, was honored today with the Albert Schweitzer Medal. This prestigious award, established in 1951 by...
AWI Joins 95 Organizations Urging Canada to Close Domestic Elephant Ivory Trade
Press ReleaseMarch 16, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) joined 95 Canadian and international conservationists, scientists, politicians and animal welfare organizations in a letter sent to the Canadian government this week urging the closure...
Wolf Nation
Terrestrial WildlifeWolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves tackles the very difficult issue of human coexistence with wolves and how polarizing it has become—pitting federal against state governments,...
2018: The Year of the Bird
Terrestrial WildlifeThe International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed more than 740 newly recognized bird species in 2016 and found that 13 of these species were already extinct—before they’d even been...
Airlines Put Hunting Trophies on Infrequent-Flyer List
Terrestrial WildlifeSafari hunting has suffered a few setbacks recently. Ever since American dentist Walter Palmer bungled the killing of a well-known Zimbabwe lion named Cecil in 2015, international outrage has stung...
AWI Promotes Animal Protection at CITES Standing Committee Meeting
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe 69th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), held November 27 to December 1, 2017, in Geneva,...
Costa Rica Adopts Enlightened Wildlife Rules
Terrestrial WildlifeTicos (as Costa Ricans call themselves) use a Latin phrase to define the noble intentions of their new wildlife regulations, adopted in 2017: in dubio pro natura—when in doubt, favor nature....
Name Brands Complicit in Kangaroo Slaughter
Terrestrial WildlifeIf you ask the average American what they know of Australia, they might mention the Sydney Opera House, didgeridoos, boomerangs, the Great Barrier Reef, the Outback, and, of course, Australia’s...
Sanctuary Secured for Longsuffering Elephant
Terrestrial WildlifeNosey the elephant has not had an easy life. Born in Zimbabwe in 1982, she was stolen from her wild family at age 2 and brought to Florida. Purchased by...