AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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New Report Examines Icelandic Fin Whaling
Marine WildlifeSlayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales is the result of a joint investigation into Iceland’s fin whaling industry by AWI, the Environmental Investigation Agency,...
Shark Species Face Extinction
Marine WildlifeIt is no secret that there is a worldwide extinction crisis plaguing the world’s sharks, and this crisis is fueled primarily by anthropogenic sources. In addition to overfishing, pollution, and...
AWI Challenges Wildlife Assault in Ocelot Country
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI and Wildearth guardians plan to sue the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services program over the program’s failure to take steps to ensure that its activities do not...
AWI Helps Communities Choose Fertility Control of Deer over Deadly Management
Terrestrial WildlifeDeer management is a significant issue across the country, and traditionally has resulted in lethal population control via sharpshooting, hunting with firearms, and bow hunting—despite the latter method’s documented inefficiency...
Maternal Deprivation Studies to Be Restarted
Animals in LaboratoriesIn a highly controversial decision, the animal care and use committee at the University of Wisconsin has approved an NIH-funded maternal deprivation study on newborn monkeys. This study echoes back...
Drones Deployed to Defend Wildlife
Terrestrial WildlifeTry as they might, hard-working wildlife officials cannot be everywhere at once. In remote areas, it is a depressingly familiar scenario for such officials to come upon grisly crime scenes...
NIH Funds No Longer Allowed for Research with Class B Dogs
Animals in LaboratoriesThe use of random source (Class B) dogs for National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored research is finally coming to an end. As of October 1, 2014, NIH will not allow...
Lynx Left in Limbo
Terrestrial WildlifeOn September 11, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) revised its critical habitat designation for threatened Canada lynx, as well as its definition of the animal’s distinct population segment...
USDA Slaps SCBT with Historic Second Complaint After Campaign by AWI
Animals in LaboratoriesOn November 4, 2014, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Kevin Shea filed a 10-page complaint alleging a plethora of willful violations of the...
New Jersey, New York Pass Laws to Ban Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horns
Terrestrial WildlifeThis summer, New Jersey and New York, two states that represent key ports of entry into the United States for consumer goods (and wildlife trafficking), passed laws to help stem...