Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Bird Birth Control: Effective, but Underutilized Management Tool
Terrestrial WildlifeOvoControl, which contains the compound nicarbazin, is an oral contraceptive for birds that has proven to be a safe and effective contraceptive agent for geese. Nevertheless, state and federal agencies...
Contraception Caps Bison Numbers on Catalina
Terrestrial WildlifeOn Santa Catalina Island, scientists have advanced the science of immunocontraception as a safe and effective tool to humanely manage the island’s bison. In 1924, Hollywood brought 14 bison to...
Elephant Poaching Exposé Goes Viral in China
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Southern Weekly, one of China's most influential newspapers, published a front-page story about the widespread massacre of elephants for ivory, and of ivory consumption in China as the primary driver...
Government Warehouse Filled with Seized Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeThere were stuffed tigers standing at the entrance of the 13,000-square-foot warehouse. Large plastic trash bags filled with thousands upon thousands of dead, dried seahorses sat slumped in the aisle....
Ill Wind for Bats and Birds
Terrestrial WildlifeEven clean energy can take its toll on animals if caution is thrown to the wind. According to an analysis by Mark Hayes of the University of Colorado, published in...
Illicit Ivory Crushed in Colorado
Terrestrial WildlifeOn November 14 at the National Wildlife Property Repository in Denver, the US Fish and Wildlife Service pulverized six tons of elephant ivory that had been seized by its agents...
Old Antlers and Bones on the Tundra Track Historical Caribou Calving Groundsby
Terrestrial WildlifeFor caribou herds to persist, they must maintain access to productive calving grounds (areas that herds visit annually to give birth to their young). With respect to the Porcupine Caribou...
Petition to Reform Wildlife Services
Terrestrial WildlifeIn December, AWI and its allies petitioned the Obama administration to reform USDA's Wildlife Services program, which kills nearly 1.5 million animals each year without regard for sound science or...
Study Reveals Lifelong Scars for Survivors of Elephant Massacres
Terrestrial WildlifeAccording to a study by behavioral ecologists at the University of Sussex, UK, and published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology, elephants who lost family members to traumatic culling operations decades...
Animal Protection Caucus Leaders to Retire
Terrestrial WildlifeReps. Jim Moran (D-VA) and John Campbell (R-CA), co-chairs of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus and two of the strongest advocates in Congress for animal protection legislation, have announced plans...