Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
AWI Sues Monterey County over Wildlife Services Contract
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI and allies filed a lawsuit in June challenging the renewal by Monterey County, California, of its contract with the US Department of Agriculture’s deadly Wildlife Services program. The lawsuit...
Florida Bear Hunt Suspended
Terrestrial WildlifeFlorida’s black bears get a one year reprieve from hunting after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-3 to suspend hunts while it gathered more information about bear...
Horned Owl Has Awful Encounter with Steel-Jaw Leghold Trap
Terrestrial WildlifeThe victim was caught out of trapping season and appeared to have been in the trap for days. The trap lacked required identification, and did not catch a furbearing animal,...
Ivory Trafficker Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
Terrestrial WildlifeFeisal Mohamed Ali is now in a Kenyan prison. He has begun to serve a term that will keep him there until July 21, 2036, when he will be 69...
Otter Trade on the Rise in Southeast Asia
Terrestrial WildlifeA new report, Illegal Otter Trade: An Analysis of Seizures in Selected Asian Countries (1980–2015), by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, examines the black market trade in live otters and otter...
Red Wolf Population Dwindles as USFWS Dithers
Terrestrial WildlifeSince a victory by AWI and allies in a lawsuit to limit coyote hunting in the red wolf recovery area (see AWI Quarterly, summer 2014), the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
Wildlife Trade in Focus at CITES Conference of the Parties
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn September 2016, thousands of government delegates, scientists, industry representatives, and conservationists will gather in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the...
Bill Seeks to Ban Interstate Commerce in Cruel Traps
Terrestrial WildlifeA horrific incident just outside her district, in which a young boy was seriously injured by a Conibear trap, motivated Representative Alma Adams (D-NC) to join Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY)...
Court Stops US Fish & Wildlife Service from Capturing and Killing Wild Red Wolves
Press ReleaseSeptember 29, 2016Terrestrial WildlifeThe US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina today issued a preliminary injunction that orders the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to stop capturing and killing—and...
On Eve of CITES Conference, 54 Members of Congress Urge US Delegation to Protect African Elephants from Poaching
Press ReleaseSeptember 21, 2016Terrestrial WildlifeFifty-four members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter today to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, urging the United States to vocally and strongly support the highest...