Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Leading Animal Protection Groups Urge USDA to Stop Practice That Keeps Animal Abusers in Business
Press ReleaseOctober 16, 2017Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute, the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSLF)...
Animal Welfare Institute Announces 2017 Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Winners
Press ReleaseOctober 12, 2017Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the 2017 winners of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to...
AWI Applauds Sen. Booker for Reintroducing Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act
Press ReleaseOctober 6, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) for his recent reintroduction of the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act (S. 1919), a bill to prohibit the possession or use of...
AWI Sues Wildlife Services in Northern California
Terrestrial WildlifeOn June 21, AWI and allies sued the Wildlife Services program of the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) over the program’s “Wildlife Damage Management”...
Court Decision: Hunters Are Responsible if They Shoot Protected Species
Terrestrial WildlifeIn June, a federal judge in Arizona struck down the Department of Justice’s longstanding “McKittrick Policy.” This policy advised the DOJ’s attorneys to prosecute individuals who killed threatened and endangered...
Namibia Allows Game Farm to Sell Elephants to Dubai
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Namibian government has granted an export permit allowing a game farm in the country to take five young elephants away from their families and sell them to a safari...
Resuscitating the Sahel: AWI Helping Wildlife Return to Senegal
Terrestrial WildlifeWith very few exceptions, Africa’s Sahel—a strip of Africa that lies just south of the Sahara Desert—is a barren, devastated place populated largely by semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen who keep watch...
USFWS Continues Quest to Weaken Wild Red Wolf Population
Terrestrial WildlifeIn September of last year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed significantly reducing the range of the existing wild population of red wolves by removing individual wolves from the...
Welcome Outcome for Ocelots
Terrestrial WildlifeOcelots may have a better chance at survival in the United States, thanks to a June 26 settlement AWI and the Center for Biological Diversity reached with the US Department...
Umpteenth Attempt to Undermine ESA
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe 115th Congress has declared war on the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Even though the ESA has a 99 percent success rate in preventing the extinction of listed species and 90...