Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Sound Off: New York’s Mute Swans Finally Win Reprieve
Terrestrial WildlifeThis past December, mute swans in New York finally gained protection under legislation introduced by Senator Tony Avella and Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation released...
Complaint Filed Against Arkansas Roadside Zoo for Appalling, Dangerous Conditions
Press ReleaseMarch 14, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) revealed today that the US Department of Agriculture filed a complaint earlier this year against Wild Wilderness, Inc., a notorious Arkansas tourist attraction operated by the Wilmoth...
AWI Statement in Response to Ringling’s Closure Announcement
Press StatementJanuary 17, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeRingling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it is shutting its doors in May 2017 after 146 years in operation, according to a January 14 press release from Feld Entertainment. Cathy...
Organizations Petition EPA to Halt Use of Deadly Predator Poison
Press ReleaseJanuary 12, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeFive animal protection organizations submitted a petition today to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asking the agency to cancel its registration for sodium fluoroacetate, a pesticide commonly known as Compound 1080. Currently,...
CITES Conference Convenes in Johannesburg
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeAWI wildlife attorney Tara Zuardo and wildlife biologist D.J. Schubert joined other animal welfare advocates, conservationists, government delegates, scientists, and industry representatives at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the...
On Trapping Laws, US Caught in the Dark Ages
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress released Laws on Leg-Hold Traps Around the World in August, a report that identifies countries that prohibit the use of steel-jaw...
USFWS Pulls the Plug on Red Wolf Recovery
Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeTwo years ago, red wolves numbered 90–110 in the wild. Victories won by AWI and allies limiting the hunting of coyotes in the wolves’ recovery area in North Carolina were...
Serendipity
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeSerendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature tells the story of ecologist James A. Estes’ work researching the unexpected collapse of sea otter populations in the Aleutians—specifically, how these declines played...
AWI Works to Protect Wildlife in the Caribbean
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region—commonly referred to as the Cartagena Convention—is the only legally binding regional environmental treaty focused...
AWI Honors Wildlife Champions
Terrestrial WildlifeFor the past two decades, it has been a tradition at CITES Conferences of the Parties for AWI to present the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award to individuals,...