AWI Quarterly Term Archive

Feature Article

AWI Partners with Acclaimed Author to Aid Endangered Animals

“When one is endangered, all are in peril.” This is the overarching theme of Katherine Applegate’s newest young adult book, Endling #1: The Last. The book—first in a series—hit shelves nationwide...

Norway and Iceland Resume Whale Slaughter

Marine Wildlife

It appears 2018 will be a deadly year for whales in the northern hemisphere, as both Norway and Iceland have issued their highest whaling quotas in years. In all, as...

Esmond Martin

Terrestrial Wildlife

We were never close but we were friendly—on the same side in every fight. And we cooperated so frequently over the years that we came to anticipate each other’s involvement...

Finding Noninvasive Methods to Survey Wild Horse Populations

Equines, Terrestrial Wildlife

The 23,882-acre Jarita Mesa Wild Horse Territory (JMWHT) is located in rugged, forested mountain terrain in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico. Prior to passage of the Wild Free-Roaming...

Nose for Trouble: Using Dogs to Detect Rodenticides

Terrestrial Wildlife

San Joaquin kit foxes know auspicious habitat when they see it, but would not know if it is free of harmful anticoagulant rodenticide baits or of prey contaminated with rodenticide...

Revolutionary Science and a Reverence for Life: AWI Awards Schweitzer Medal to Dr. Samuel K Wasser

Terrestrial Wildlife

Sam Wasser’s life is bound by threads so small that a thousand of them braided together wouldn’t amount to a single eyelash. These threads are strands of deoxyribonucleic acid, better...

Wilderness Way in Senegal Named After AWI Founder

Terrestrial Wildlife

Swing open the main gate at Senegal’s Ferlo North Wildlife Reserve and a broad avenue greets you, unfolding for more than two miles across an idyllic African landscape. The landscape...

USDA Keeps Extending the Leash on Abusive Dog Breeder

Companion Animals

The Des Moines Register published an editorial on November 13, 2016, entitled “Why won’t the USDA shut down this serial animal abuser?” The paper of record for the state of...

2018: The Year of the Bird

Terrestrial Wildlife

The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed more than 740 newly recognized bird species in 2016 and found that 13 of these species were already extinct—before they’d even been...

Airlines Put Hunting Trophies on Infrequent-Flyer List 

Terrestrial Wildlife

Safari hunting has suffered a few setbacks recently. Ever since American dentist Walter Palmer bungled the killing of a well-known Zimbabwe lion named Cecil in 2015, international outrage has stung...