Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act Reintroduced to Protect Wildlife and Pets on Public Lands
Press ReleaseJune 24, 2025Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, reintroduced today in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). This bill would prohibit the...
Colorado Cracks Down on Wildlife Trafficking
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn May, Colorado enacted SB25-168, the nation’s most comprehensive state law to combat wildlife trafficking. The law is unique among state laws in that it prohibits the selling, possessing, transporting,...
Executive Order Opens America’s Forests to Unchecked Logging
Terrestrial WildlifeOn March 1, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production,” to massively accelerate and increase logging on US Forest Service and Bureau of Land...
Study Shows Steep Decline in US Butterfly Population
Terrestrial WildlifeInsects, though often maligned, are critically important to the planet and to our own survival. A vast array of species depend on them for food; other ecological services they provide...
Monitoring Salt Marsh Harvest Mice via Novel, Noninvasive Genetic Surveys
Terrestrial WildlifeThe salt marsh harvest mouse is an endangered species restricted to the coastal wetlands of the San Francisco Estuary (SFE). Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, approximately 90 percent...
Trump Administration Seeks to Slash Habitat Protections for Endangered Wildlife
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn April, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a proposed rule that would undermine protections for habitat that threatened and endangered...
Captive Primate Safety Act Reintroduced
Terrestrial WildlifeOn May 5, the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA) was reintroduced in Congress. This bipartisan bill, sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Reps. Mike Quigley (D-IL), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA),...
Slither
Terrestrial WildlifeIn Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World, science writer Stephen S. Hall offers a fascinating exploration of snakes. Drawing from the humanities and science, Hall reframes these...
The Ellesmere Wolves
Terrestrial WildlifeThe isolated, white-furred wolves of Ellesmere Island, Canada, are distinctive among their species in that they have not been conditioned over generations to fear humans. On the second closest land...
CEQ Guts NEPA by Rescinding Regulations
Terrestrial WildlifeIn April, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)— an arm of the White House that coordinates federal environmental activities and policy development— took the most drastic action since its creation...