Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Wayne Lotter
Terrestrial WildlifeWildlife has lost yet another champion. Wayne Lotter, 51, a vigorous leader in efforts to suppress wildlife crime, was murdered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 16. Nearly nine...
Assessing the Efficacy of Foxlights in Reducing Wolf-Livestock Conflict
Terrestrial WildlifeFew conflicts are more challenging than wolves and livestock depredation encounters in the western United States. For centuries, wolves have paid the ultimate price for the presence of livestock on...
AWI Files Suit to Stop Deer Cull on Fire Island
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI and Wildlife Preserves, Inc., filed suit against the National Park Service and the superintendent of Fire Island National Seashore (FINS) on November 29 over a wildlife management plan that...
AWI Scores Big Win for California Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeCarnivores in California can breathe a little easier, after AWI and allies reached a settlement with the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program in November that will result in...
Border Wall Bad News for Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeDespite widespread opposition and controversy, President Trump’s border wall is moving forward: Just five days after the president took office, an executive order authorizing it was signed. The order attempts...
EPA Approves Immunocontraceptive for Deer Management
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to approve ZonaStat-D to manage deer populations was all the buzz at the 8th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control, held in Washington, DC,...
Myanmar Elephants Being Slaughtered for Their Skin
Terrestrial WildlifeAn emerging black market for elephant skins is putting new pressure on elephant populations in Myanmar. Poaching has long been a problem in the country. But in the past, ivory...
Taking Care of Confiscated Animals: A CITES Solution?
Terrestrial WildlifeFor some wild animals, getting rescued from traffickers is just the start of another ordeal. Nobody really knows precisely how many live wild animals are seized from poachers and smugglers...
Vietnam to Banish Bear Bile Farms
Terrestrial WildlifeThis summer, the Vietnamese government agreed to a memorandum of understanding with the nonprofit Animals Asia to finally end bear bile farming in the country. On bile farms, the bears,...
House Committee Approves Anti-wildlife Bills
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeFor 45 years, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has succeeded in its mission to protect individual marine mammals, as well as entire populations, from harassment, injury, and death due...