AWI Quarterly » 2010 Spring

Remy, following his use in research at a major university, was among eight cats to arrive at Wyoming’s Kindness Ranch when it opened in 2007.

2010 Spring

The Book of Honu: Enjoying and Learning about Hawai'i's Sea Turtles

The Book of Honu is a wonderful guide for all turtle enthusiasts, especially those interested in seeing Hawaii’s green sea turtle, or honu, in the wild.

2010 Spring

Tyson Foods' Chicken: Raised with Antibiotics

Despite corresponding feeding practices in large-scale industrial operations, in 2007, Tyson Foods sought to capitalize on growing consumer concern about the excessive use of antibiotics by marketing its chicken as "Raised Without Antibiotics."

2010 Spring

The Cruel Practice of Coyote & Fox "Penning"

Few people have heard of "penning." This cruel practice involves the live trapping of coyotes and foxes (generally with leghold traps or snares) who are then often shipped and traded across state lines and sold to penning facilities.

2010 Spring

Trainer's Death Revives Cetacean Captivity Debate

Tilikum, SeaWorld’s largest killer whale, weighing over 12,000 pounds, killed one of his trainers in February, as spectators watched with horror.

2010 Spring

Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us about Humanity

In Elephants on the Edge, G.A. Bradshaw exposes how - through mass slaughter, poaching and capture - we have ravaged elephant populations, while drawing comparisons between the ways people and elephants respond to traumatic situations.

2010 Spring

Animal Welfare at the Oscars

Many animal protection advocates were glued to their televisions this year during the Oscar Awards.

2010 Spring

Smithfield Fouls

A record-breaking $11 million has been awarded to plaintiffs suffering from horrendous odors emanating from hog factories in Berlin, Missouri.

2010 Spring

Organic Standards Evolving

Despite popular belief that an organic label ensures animal welfare, this is not the case.

2010 Spring

Science Sacrificed at CITES

At the outset, the 15th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) stood to be historic and precedent setting.

2010 Spring

Wildlife Segregated by U.S. Border Policy

The remote borderlands between the United States and Mexico contain vast and beautiful wilderness and include the richest diversity of plant and animal species in North America. Why then, did the U.S. government, under the Bush Administration, choose to waive the many landmark laws set in place to protect these unique areas?

2010 Spring

Adoption Can be an Option for Animals After Their Use in Research

In a typically hardscrabble corner of southeastern Wyoming, a surprising series of sophisticated yurts and yards punctuate 1,000 dusty acres. Even more surprising, the yurts are home to very special cats and dogs, a number of whom until recently had never felt the grass beneath their feet.

2010 Spring

Wind Energy Project Modified for Bats

After the precedent setting ruling by a federal court late last year that an industrial wind energy project in West Virginia will kill and injure endangered Indiana bats, AWI and other parties to the lawsuit have reached an agreement that will provide for more protections for bats and additional wildlife, while allowing some elements of the project to go forward.

2010 Spring

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Marine Life

In January, AWI and 11 other groups filed suit against the U.S. Navy and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) over the Navy’s planned Undersea Warfare Training Range.

2010 Spring

Whaling to be Thrown a Lifeline by IWC

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is teetering on the brink of a frightful precipice. In June it will decide on a plan to legalize commercial whaling for the first time in over two decades.

2010 Spring

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