Articles About Wildlife

Please see the below articles about Wildlife from past editions of the AWI Quarterly magazine.

Scientists Detect Pathogen Invaders Non-invasively

Scientists are finding more creative—and less invasive—ways to identify dangerous pathogens in wild and domestic animals. According to a report published in Science, portable air samplers, ropes, and electrostatic dust-collecting cloths are among the tools...

CITES Effective… If Enforced

Does the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) protect wildlife? Yes, according to a study in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (Heid & Márquez-Ramos, 2023)—so long...

Park Service Plans Wild Horse Purge

The National Park Service is seeking to remove the entire herd of wild horses from Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP). According to a preliminary plan released in December, the NPS is proposing the “active capture...

AWI Aids Effort to Save Hawaiian Honeycreepers

Last summer, AWI launched a partnership with the American Bird Conservancy and Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project to save Hawaiian honeycreepers from extinction due to avian malaria, a disease transmitted by non-native mosquitoes. Thus far...

Bozeman Launches Bear Conflict-Reduction Pilot Program

Over the past year, AWI partnered with the Sierra Club and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition to encourage the City of Bozeman, Montana, to take steps to address increasing incidents of human-bear conflicts. A wide variety...

Study Reveals Grizzly Bear Toes Amputated by Traps

In a study published in August in the journal Wildlife Society, Dr. Clayton Lamb of the University of British Columbia and colleagues reported that 4 of 59 grizzly bears captured and collared in southeast British...

AWI Honors Wildlife Law Enforcement Champions in Panama

Since 1994, at each meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties, AWI has honored individuals, organizations, and agencies that have demonstrated excellence in combatting wildlife crime with the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement...