Program Term Archive
Marine Wildlife
Tell the Trump Admin: Don’t Weaken Right Whale Protections
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeYour voice is needed to oppose weakening one of the most important federal safeguards protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from lethal vessel strikes! The Trump administration plans to...
CITES CoP20 Concludes with Conservation Successes
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeHundreds of wild species gained important protections at the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and...
Mexico Intends to Weaken Vaquita Protection
Marine WildlifeMexico is considering wholesale revisions to fishing regulations, originally promulgated in September 2020 to protect the vaquita porpoise and its habitat in the Upper Gulf of California, the species’ only...
IWC at 80: An Evolution from Exploitation to Conservation
Marine WildlifeThis year, we celebrate a pair of milestones in the history of international wildlife governance: December 3, 2026, is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the International Convention for...
Eavesdropping on Whales in the Salish Sea
Marine WildlifeEven before humans started plying the oceans in noisy ships, the oceans produced a symphony of natural sounds emanating from marine life, rain, crashing waves, and the Earth itself. When...
Administration Advances Offshore Drilling Expansion Plan
Marine WildlifeWhen the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management took public comments last summer to inform its forthcoming offshore oil and gas leasing plan, AWI submitted comments on behalf of dozens of...
Why Whales Sing
Marine WildlifeIn Why Whales Sing, cognitive scientist Dr. Eduardo Mercado III challenges decades of scientific research into the purpose behind humpback whale song, in which the prevailing view is that it is...
Gunning for Sea Lions Misses Mark on Salmon Recovery
Marine WildlifeThe House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held an oversight hearing in December entitled “Sea Lion Predation in the Pacific Northwest.” While several members of Congress...
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Proposed ESA Rollbacks Threaten Wildlife
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Trump administration is seeking to reinstate four regulations issued in 2019 during President Trump’s first term that severely weakened critical Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections. These regulations curtailed protections...
Responsible Whale Watching
Marine WildlifeThere is something magical about seeing a wild animal up close—especially when it’s as big as a bus! Humans have an understandable fascination with whales and dolphins, and the best...