Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Poachers Step Up Assault on India’s Tigers
Terrestrial WildlifeForty-eight tigers were reportedly killed in India from January through the beginning of June this year, double the 2011 rate. Most of the deaths occurred in Corbett National Park in...
Sportsmen’s Heritage Act Aims to Gun Down Wildlife Protection on Public Lands
Terrestrial WildlifeCongress is currently considering legislation that would, if enacted, launch a broad assault on America's wildlife and public lands. The Sportsmen's Heritage Act of 2012 (H.R. 4089), which passed the...
North Carolina Wildlife Commission Adopts Unregulated Night Hunting
Press ReleaseMay 3, 2012Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Project Coyote expressed grave concerns in response to the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission’s decision to allow unlimited night hunting of coyotes and feral...
Tar Sands Pipelines and Oil Tankers Threaten North American Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeLike some three-headed monster from a classic Japanese horror movie, a trio of proposed pipeline projects would stream what has become known as “the world’s dirtiest oil” out of northeastern...
Agencies Fight On as White-Nose Syndrome Advances
Terrestrial WildlifeThe numbers are extremely bleak: bats in 20 states are now affected by white-nose syndrome (WNS) or the associated fungus, and the estimated death toll was recently revised upward to...
Fence Made of Scents May Help Wolves Steer Clear
Terrestrial WildlifeBy the 1930s, gray wolves (Canis lupus) had been extirpated in the Rocky Mountains. Natural recolonization from Canada into Montana, as well as reintroductions to Idaho and Yellowstone National Park...
Groups Ask EPA to Get the Lead Out of Ammo
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and 99 other groups in 35 states formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in March to regulate toxic lead in hunting ammunition to...
Minnesota Hunters Push for Restrictions on Deadly Trap
Terrestrial WildlifeA growing number of hunters in Minnesota are supporting legislation currently pending in the state that would restrict the use of traps intended to catch and kill furbearing animals. The...
Poachers Descend on Cameroon Park to Slay Hundreds of Elephants
Terrestrial WildlifeDuring a six-week period in January and February, a brazen and well-organized gang of poachers slaughtered at least half of the roughly 400 resident savannah elephants in Cameroon’s Bouba N’Djida...
Running over Animals in the Path to the Pump
Terrestrial WildlifePresident Obama denied a permit in January for the Keystone XL pipeline’s proposed route over the border from Canada, across the critically important Ogallala Aquifer, on down to the Gulf...