AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Noxious Emissions from Animal Waste Exempted
Farmed AnimalsThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted all agribusiness in December—no matter how industrialized, no matter the animal product produced—from having to declare noxious emissions produced by animal waste. The EPA...
Report Finds Insufficient Gov’t Oversight at Slaughter Plants
Farmed AnimalsIn response to the Hallmark-Westland slaughter plant exposé, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) within the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) assessed what had transpired at Hallmark, if it could...
Australia Welcomes New Dolphin Species
Marine WildlifeUp until recently, it was thought that only two species of bottlenose dolphins existed—the Indo-Pacific and the common bottlenose. But recent DNA tests performed by researchers at Australia’s Macquarie and...
Compromising the Commercial Whaling Moratorium
Marine WildlifeThe International Whaling Commission (IWC) recently held two meetings of the “Small Working Group on the Future of the IWC,” which was formed at the last annual meeting in Santiago,...
Good and Bad News for Belugas
Marine WildlifeWhile the US took a leap toward beluga conservation in October by adding Cook Inlet belugas to the Endangered Species List, the animals remain grossly overhunted in Greenland. The country’s Environmental...
Manatee Deaths Rise in 2008
Marine WildlifeOut of 337 manatee carcasses recovered in Florida last year, 101 were very young calves, compared to the 59 dead calves found in 2007. Though reasons for this increase are...
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...
A Lost Angel
Companion AnimalsWhen a pit bull, a mother and a young child are featured in the same news story, the ending is often predictable, but in November, the NBC headline was quite...
Curtailing Mexico’s Exotic Bird Trade
Terrestrial WildlifeThe long-awaited amendment to Mexico’s wildlife law to protect its wild bird populations from exploitation was approved by Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa on October 13. The ban prohibits the...
Dog Crushed by Illegal Trap
Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeNovember 15, 2008 is a day that Rich Poska will never forget. While walking his 11-year-old therapy dog—a 55-pound Chinook named Rupert—around the White Deer Golf Course in Vernon Hills,...