Wayne Lotter
Wildlife has lost yet another champion. Wayne Lotter, 51, a vigorous leader in efforts to suppress wildlife crime, was murdered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 16. Nearly nine years ago, Lotter joined with...
Please see the below articles about Terrestrial Wildlife from past editions of the AWI Quarterly.
EPA Approves Immunocontraceptive for Deer Management
The Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to approve ZonaStat-D to manage deer populations was all the buzz at the 8th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control, held in Washington, DC, in mid-July. Approval of this...
Taking Care of Confiscated Animals: A CITES Solution?
For some wild animals, getting rescued from traffickers is just the start of another ordeal. Nobody really knows precisely how many live wild animals are seized from poachers and smugglers around the world each year...
Assessing the Efficacy of Foxlights in Reducing Wolf-Livestock Conflict
by Suzanne Stone, senior representative of Defender of Wildlife’s Northwest Program, specializing in wolf conservation Few conflicts are more challenging than wolves and livestock depredation encounters in the western United States. For centuries, wolves have...
Vietnam to Banish Bear Bile Farms
This summer, the Vietnamese government agreed to a memorandum of understanding with the nonprofit Animals Asia to finally end bear bile farming in the country. On bile farms, the bears, primarily Asiatic black bears and...
Myanmar Elephants Being Slaughtered for Their Skin
An emerging black market for elephant skins is putting new pressure on elephant populations in Myanmar. Poaching has long been a problem in the country. But in the past, ivory was the draw and males...
AWI Scores Big Win for California Wildlife
Carnivores in California can breathe a little easier, after AWI and allies reached a settlement with the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program in November that will result in numerous protections for predators and...
House Committee Approves Anti-wildlife Bills
For 45 years, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) has succeeded in its mission to protect individual marine mammals, as well as entire populations, from harassment, injury, and death due to human activities. Unfortunately, legislation...
AWI Files Suit to Stop Deer Cull on Fire Island
AWI and Wildlife Preserves, Inc., filed suit against the National Park Service and the superintendent of Fire Island National Seashore (FINS) on November 29 over a wildlife management plan that calls for killing many of...
Killing Games
Killing Games: Wildlife in the Crosshairs, a new film produced and distributed by Project Coyote (with some support from AWI), serves as an overview of wildlife killing contests: what they are, why they need to...