Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
Informed Advocacy: Food for Thought and Sustainability
Terrestrial WildlifeEarly last May in the heart of coastal British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, an area that safeguards one of the planet’s last grizzly bear-salmon strongholds, my team from the Raincoast...
Rampant Poaching May Lead to Expulsion
Terrestrial WildlifeZimbabwe faces expulsion from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) unless it quickly gains control of rhino poaching within its borders. Twenty-six...
Sometimes Money Can’t Buy Everything
Terrestrial WildlifeTexas real estate scion and former chairman of Perot Systems, H. Ross Perot Jr. has met his match over a white rhino trophy head in a battle with South African...
The Vanishing Saola
Terrestrial WildlifeSaola is a species of Asian wild cattle discovered in 1992 and considered one of the world's rarest mammals. The species has remained elusive, even after its discovery, and is...
Golf Course to Pay Owner for Killing Dog in Trap
Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeThe conibear body gripping trap is designed to instantly kill by breaking the neck or back of an animal. It often doesn’t, and victims suffer greatly before they die. It...
Brutal BLM Roundups
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeThe unnecessary removal of wild horses has reached an alarming rate under the current administration. Thousands of horses have been and continue to be removed from their native range, and...
Escaped Snakes Lead to Jail for Notorious Wildlife Trafficker
Terrestrial WildlifeAnson Wong, one of the world’s most infamous traders in illegal wildlife, has been jailed for attempting to smuggle a cache of snakes and a turtle into Indonesia from Malaysia....
Into Africa
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI’s Cathy Liss Sees Conservation in Action in Kenya This summer I was fortunate enough to fulfill one of my life’s dreams—a vacation in Africa! My family and I spent...
Lead Poisoning: The Lessons of the Birds of Esperance
Terrestrial WildlifeAt first, it was just an unnatural morning quiet that residents noticed. Then birds were found dead by the hundreds. Some people said they saw them dropping from the sky....
Roadkill Research: Making Highways Less Hazardous
Terrestrial WildlifeUC Davis researcher Fraser Shilling and colleagues created a website for Californians to report on roadkill. The goal is to collect data that could help transportation planners and conservation managers...