The Florida breeding facility that has masqueraded as a sanctuary and received 31 macaws seized in Virginia (AWI Quarterly, Winter 2009), is liquidating and auctioning off all its birds and exotic cats.

In her new book, Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species, Laurel Neme, PhD, tells the true story of a group of scientists who are the...

You may have never thought twice about a horseshoe crab—or even once for that matter—but lately, people are noticing that perhaps they should.

The Restore Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act (H.R. 1018), introduced by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) and National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), will restore the protections...

Greenwash: The dissemination of misleading information by an organization to conceal its abuse of the environment in order to present a positive public image.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced in June its intent to eradicate the state’s mute swan population by “reducing it to as low a level as can be achieved.” The DNR blames the...

Although wolves may not have drastic economic repercussions on the livestock industry as a whole, they can substantially affect individual ranchers when depredations become chronic.

Almost every wildlife biologist has experienced the sinking feeling of finding an injured or dead animal in a live-trap.

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Mountain Communities for Responsible Energy, and a West Virginia local conservationist filed a complaint against Beech Ridge Energy and its parent company in June, contending that their massive industrial wind...

Bats in the eastern US are now facing what could be their biggest challenge, with hundreds of thousands reported dead by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and many species heading toward extinction.