Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Lawsuit Filed Against Mendocino County Over Contract with Rogue Federal Predator Control Program
Press ReleaseNovember 25, 2014Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeA coalition of animal protection and conservation groups and a local Mendocino resident filed a lawsuit against Mendocino County today in the Superior Court of California, County of Mendocino, for...
Settlement Reached to Promote Red Wolf Conservation
Press ReleaseNovember 13, 2014Terrestrial WildlifeThe US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina approved a settlement agreement today between the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Defenders of Wildlife (Defenders), the Red Wolf Coalition (RWC) and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources...
Animal Welfare Institute Announces Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Winners
Press ReleaseOctober 7, 2014Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute officially announced today the winners of its annual Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to...
AWI Challenges Wildlife Assault in Ocelot Country
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI and Wildearth guardians plan to sue the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services program over the program’s failure to take steps to ensure that its activities do not...
AWI Helps Communities Choose Fertility Control of Deer over Deadly Management
Terrestrial WildlifeDeer management is a significant issue across the country, and traditionally has resulted in lethal population control via sharpshooting, hunting with firearms, and bow hunting—despite the latter method’s documented inefficiency...
Drones Deployed to Defend Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeTry as they might, hard-working wildlife officials cannot be everywhere at once. In remote areas, it is a depressingly familiar scenario for such officials to come upon grisly crime scenes...
Lynx Left in Limbo
Terrestrial WildlifeOn September 11, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) revised its critical habitat designation for threatened Canada lynx, as well as its definition of the animal’s distinct population segment...
New Jersey, New York Pass Laws to Ban Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horns
Terrestrial WildlifeThis summer, New Jersey and New York, two states that represent key ports of entry into the United States for consumer goods (and wildlife trafficking), passed laws to help stem...
Pachyderm Poachers Headed to Prison Under New Mozambique Law
Terrestrial WildlifeOne country may already be turning the table on traffickers. On June 20, Mozambique passed a law that mandates a prison term of 8 to 12 years for poaching of...
Political Climate: USFWS Shows Weak Will on Wolverines
Terrestrial WildlifeOn February 1, 2013, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a proposal to list the North American wolverine as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)....