Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
NAS Says Science (and Scrutiny) Scarce in BLM’s Wild Equine Management
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeA scientific committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) National Research Council has completed a two-year study on the Wild Horse and Burro Program of the federal Bureau...
Putting CITES Protections into Practice in West Africa
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeAWI is following up on the successful efforts to obtain international trade protections for the imperiled West African manatee under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...
Turbines and Toxic Ammo Endanger Condor Comeback
Terrestrial WildlifeThe California condor is one of the world’s rarest bird species. Poaching, lead poisoning (from eating animals containing lead shot), and habitat destruction combined to bring about their extinction from...
USFWS Embraces Chimpanzees, Abandons Wolves
Terrestrial WildlifeAs we go to press, proposals have been published in the Federal Register by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that portend an enormous impact on the future of the...
Using DNA to Put Poachers Away
Terrestrial WildlifeModern DNA technology is helping to protect African wild animals from the most ancient of criminal abuses—poaching for bushmeat. Long before elephant ivory carvings became fashionable, and before crocodile skin...
Enhancing Animal Fighting Enforcement
Companion Animals, Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeAttending animal fights and bringing children to such spectacles would become federal offenses under the Animal Welfare Act as a result of provisions in the farm bills of both chambers...
Seeking Funds to Save Bats
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI joined 44 other organizations on a letter asking Congress to provide $7.5 million in funding to the many agencies responding to white-nose syndrome (WNS), the disease that is decimating...
Wild Things
Terrestrial WildlifeWild Things examines the US Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services (WS) program and its devastating impacts on native carnivores. Each year, WS kills thousands of predators who are viewed as threats to...
Falling Reign: Drought, Industrial Ag Precipitate Disastrous Decline of Monarch Butterflies
Terrestrial WildlifeThe monarch butterfly population is crashing. Over a 50-acre swatch of central Mexico each winter, monarch butterflies once formed a living blanket over the trees. They now occupy less than...
Pitching Painted Dog Conservation in Zimbabwe
Terrestrial WildlifePainted dogs (Lycaon pictus), also called African wild dogs, once numbered around 500,000 across 39 countries on the continent. Today, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a...