Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Monitoring Loon Populations via Non-invasive Digital Image Analysis
Terrestrial WildlifeAs many wildlife populations decline, the ability to monitor population sizes and changes is critical to conservation efforts. To determine population trends, researchers often must capture animals and apply unique...
State Department Plans to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
Terrestrial WildlifeAt last November’s Partnership Meeting on Wildlife Trafficking hosted at the US State Department, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton noted that over the past few years, wildlife trafficking has...
Battlefield Training Torture to End
Equines, Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeIn the Summer 2012 AWI Quarterly, we reported that more than 10,000 animals each year are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in military training exercises, despite the availability of more effective...
AWI Seeks Emergency Protection for World’s Smallest Sloth
Press ReleaseNovember 15, 2013Terrestrial WildlifeAWI today filed an emergency petition to list the pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) as endangered under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA). Endemic to Panama’s Isla Escudo de Veraguas, the pygmy...
Groups Seek to Protect Endangered Red Wolves in Recovery Area from Deadly Mistaken Identity
Press ReleaseOctober 17, 2013Terrestrial WildlifeConservation organizations today challenged North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission’s authorization of coyote hunting—including by spotlight at night—in the five county area of eastern North Carolina inhabited by the world’s only...
USFWS Makes Move to Stem Rhino Poaching
Terrestrial WildlifeOn September 10, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it proposes to list the southern white rhinoceros as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Listing this subspecies will...
Dallas Aquarium Attempts Fast Grab of Endangered Sloths
Terrestrial WildlifeOn September 9, 2013, Dallas World Aquarium (DWA) representatives traveled to Panama to collect several pygmy three-toed sloths—the world’s smallest sloth—to bring back to Texas. The sloths are highly endangered;...
USDA Wildlife Services’ Misleading PR
Terrestrial WildlifeIn July, a scathing New York Times editorial entitled “Agriculture’s Misnamed Agency” highlighted the myriad problems plaguing USDA’s rogue Wildlife Services program, including its outdated and nonselective killing practices, lack of transparency...
While the World Moves On, US Still Caught in Its Traps
Terrestrial WildlifeAlthough more than 85 countries have banned or heavily restricted the use of steel-jaw leghold traps, the United States—one of the world’s largest fur producing and consuming nations—continues to defend...
California Legislature Approves Lead Ammunition Ban
Terrestrial WildlifeA new law in California will phase out the use of lead ammunition for hunting throughout the state. The law, introduced as Assembly Bill 711 in March 2013 by Assembly...