Wildlife Protection
Wild animals need strong human advocates. The serious threats facing wildlife include urban sprawl and habitat degradation, trapping and indiscriminate lethal control, and commercial exploitation and killing. Countless wild animals are displaced, suffer, and die as a result of thoughtless or outright cruel human actions, often based on needless fear, biases, or ignorance of humane approaches to solving conflicts with wildlife.
API's approach to wildlife protection involves a variety of powerful tools, including public education; regulatory and legislative reform; science-based research; assisting communities in finding humane, nonlethal, and long-lasting approaches to conflict mitigation; and maintaining and restoring wildlife's rightful place in the wild.
A belief in educated coexistence between humans and our wild neighbors is the cornerstone of API's approach to wildlife issues. We also believe in the power of collaboration, and often work in tandem with other groups in the U.S. or across the globe on issues such as stopping predator eradication programs and protecting imperiled species from international trade to achieve our aim of making this world one that can respect the needs of all species.
Our primary wildlife protection campaigns address the issues of trapping and co-existence. We also address the exploitation of wild animals in our animals in entertainment and captive exotic animals campaigns. In addition, we have information available about hunting myths.
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