AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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AWI Aids Wildlife Impacted by Australian Fires
Terrestrial WildlifeThe wildfires that raged across Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 were unprecedented in scope and severity. Nearly 3 billion animals, it is estimated, were killed or displaced, including...
Mortality Aboard Cattle Shipment Raises Serious Questions
Farmed AnimalsIn late August, AWI sent a letter to USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack about an incident in which 207 cattle (over 9%) onboard a shipment from Delaware to Qatar died from...
Judge Recommends Waiver to Allow Gray Whale Hunt
Marine WildlifeIn September, the administrative law judge who presided over the November 2019 hearing regarding the Makah tribe’s request for a waiver of the Marine Mammal Protection Act gave his formal...
Solitary Orca Endures Elder Abuse at Miami Seaquarium
Marine WildlifeFor over 50 years, Lolita (a.k.a. Tokitae, Toki, and Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut), an orca originally captured from the Southern Resident killer whale population, has been languishing as the only orca in a...
Warming Oceans Threaten Southern Right Whale Recovery
Marine WildlifeScientists in South America are studying the recovery of southern right whales after many decades of whaling in the past and ongoing human threats, including entanglement in fishing nets, ship...
AWI Funds Innovative Wildlife Science
Terrestrial WildlifeSince 2007, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award, named after AWI’s late founder and long-time president, has provided over $900,000 in grants in total to over 85 award recipients to support...
Idaho Redoubles Its Attacks on Wolves
Terrestrial WildlifeThe US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program recently killed eight wolf pups on federal public lands in Idaho. Conservation groups and a representative of Timberline High School—named after one...
Oil Spill Harms California Wildlife and Wetlands
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeAn underwater pipeline ruptured about five miles off California’s southern coast in early October, spewing at least 25,000 gallons of oil into the sea. While the exact cause remains unclear,...
Parliamentary Report Condemns Current Kangaroo Management
Terrestrial WildlifeIn October, Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) Parliament published a blistering report entitled Health and wellbeing of kangaroos and other macropods in New South Wales, taking to task the NSW government...
Schweitzer Medalist Helps Nab Ivory and Horn Smugglers
Terrestrial WildlifeForensic analysis conducted by Dr. Sam Wasser led to the recent arrest of two men from the Democratic Republic of the Congo for conspiring to bring more than two tons...