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Terrestrial Wildlife
Wildlife Segregated by US Border Policy
Terrestrial WildlifeThe remote borderlands between the United States and Mexico contain vast and beautiful wilderness and include the richest diversity of plant and animal species in North America. Why then, did...
Wind Energy Project Modified for Bats
Terrestrial WildlifeAfter the precedent setting ruling by a federal court late last year that an industrial wind energy project in West Virginia will kill and injure endangered Indiana bats, AWI and...
Elephants on the Edge
Terrestrial WildlifeIn Elephants on the Edge, G.A. Bradshaw exposes how—through mass slaughter, poaching and capture—we have ravaged elephant populations, while drawing comparisons between the ways people and elephants respond to traumatic situations....
Parties in Federal Lawsuit Concerning Beech Ridge Wind Energy Project Announce Agreement on Bat Protection and Turbine Operation
Press ReleaseJanuary 27, 2010Terrestrial WildlifeAn agreement has been reached among all parties involved in federal litigation under the Endangered Species Act concerning the Beech Ridge wind project in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, that will...
2010 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award Recipients
Terrestrial Wildlife2010 Award Recipients: Dr. Bill Clark, CITES Coordinator for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Department of Law EnforcementDr. Clark has spent 30 years engaged in wildlife law enforcement efforts...
The Animal Welfare Institute Continues Fight to Protect Endangered Elephants from Abuse by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Press ReleaseDecember 31, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeAfter nearly a decade of litigation, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) will continue its battle to protect endangered Asian elephants from abuse at the hands of Ringling Bros. and Barnum...
Wildlife Coalition Condemns Coyote Killing Tournament as Ethically and Ecologically Indefensible
Press ReleaseDecember 30, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeA national coalition of wildlife advocacy and conservation organizations representing more than 70,000 Maine citizens is calling for an end to a coyote killing tournament that is currently underway in...
Wildlife Advocacy Organizations Petition U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Halt Illegal Trapping of Canada Lynx
Press ReleaseDecember 10, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the Wildlife Alliance of Maine (WAM) urged the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today to enforce the Endangered Species Act (ESA) against the...
Federal Court Rules Massive Wind Energy Project in Violation of Endangered Species Act
Press ReleaseDecember 9, 2009Terrestrial WildlifeFederal district court Judge Roger Titus of the US District Court for the District of Maryland has issued a comprehensive ruling that an industrial wind energy facility in Greenbrier County,...
A Promising Proposal for Wild Non-human Primates
Terrestrial WildlifeThe European Commission proposed a ban on laboratory use of wild-caught apes and monkeys this past November—just short of asking that primate experiments be phased out altogether. “It is absolutely...