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Seal Sitters Making Sure Pups Have Space
Marine WildlifeSeal Sitters Marine Mammal Stranding Network is a nonprofit group of volunteers in the Pacific Northwest trained by NOAA. During seal pupping season—from mid-June to September—nursing mother-pup pairs, juveniles, and...
Atlanta Piano Dealer Strikes Wrong Note with Illegal Ivory
Terrestrial WildlifeThe owner of an Atlanta piano import/export company was sentenced in March for illegally smuggling internationally protected elephant ivory into the US Pascal Vieillard and his company, A-440 Pianos, were each...
Coyote Kill Quashed in California
Terrestrial WildlifeIn January, the City Council of Arcadia, California voted unanimously to cancel a contract with a private wildlife removal firm to snare and kill coyotes within the city. Public outcry...
South Atlantic Oil Spill May Doom Endangered Penguins and Other Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeA major spill of heavy fuel oil from a wrecked freighter has fouled the waters surrounding one of the world’s most important bird nesting sites on a remote South Atlantic...
Trap Near Trail Spells Agony For Pet
Companion Animals, Terrestrial Wildlife“The most horrible sound you’ll ever hear.” That’s how Kristi Gatt described the howl of pain and terror her dog made when a steel-jaw leghold trap clamped down on her...
Zimbabwe Chooses Dead Animals Over Golden Eggs
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Zimbabwe National Wildlife Authority, in March, auctioned off sport hunting packages for big game to local and foreign hunters. The packages include rights to kill elephants, lions, hippos and...
Endangered Indiana Bats Get Reprieve
Terrestrial WildlifeIn a precedent setting decision, a federal court judge has issued a comprehensive ruling that an industrial wind energy farm in Greenbrier County, WV would kill and injure endangered Indiana...
Poison-Free Poultry
Farmed AnimalsAWI supports Representative Steve Israel’s Poison-Free Poultry Act of 2009, H.R. 3624, introduced September 22, 2009. H.R. 3624 bans roxarsone, an arsenic compound used as a growth-promoting additive to poultry...
Shark Bill Moves Forward
Marine WildlifeOn November 19, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee passed the Shark Conservation Act of 2009 (S. 850; see AWI Quarterly Summer 2009). It now awaits action by the full Senate....
Twentieth Anniversary of “The Bangkok Six” Smuggling Case
Animals in LaboratoriesThe six infant orangutans, packed into small crates labeled “birds,” were covered in vomit and feces. A Thai veterinarian who examined the baby primates said that they had been drugged,...