More than 1.6 million farm animals, including nearly 1.3 million cage-free hens, have perished in potentially preventable barn fires so far this year, according to an Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) analysis of media reports released today. The 2020 tally of farm animal deaths from barn fires is the highest annual total since AWI began tracking barn fires in 2013 and is more than triple the number reported last year.
Date created: December 15, 2020
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The devastation caused by the explosion and sinking of the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico will likely unfold as the worst environmental disaster in US history. Though wildlife rescuers are hard at work, many animals are expected to die, including highly vulnerable species such as the brown pelican, manatee, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, and bluefin tuna.
Date created: May 12, 2010
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The continuing resolution that the 114th Congress passed in December to fund the government until April 28 kept in place AWI-supported language denying funds for horse slaughter plant inspections by the USDA—a move that effectively keeps these plants from operating.
Date created: March 17, 2017
Last updated: October 15, 2020
AWI welcomes Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL) as the new co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus in the 115th Congress, replacing Representative Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who retired at the end of the last term. Rep. Buchanan will join co-chair Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who is serving his second term in the role.
Date created: March 17, 2017
Last updated: November 19, 2019
Washington, DC—Advocacy organizations and their supporters demonstrated at Olive Garden restaurants across the United States today to urge the chain and its parent company, Darden Restaurant Inc.,to improve food-sourcing and labor practices.
Date created: May 12, 2016
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The 50th meeting of the International Whaling Commission was held from May 16-21 near Muscat, Oman. Although this country of serene desert peaks and isolated oases may seem like a strange venue, the Arabian Sea that laps its shores is rich in sea life, including many species of whales and dolphins.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: October 18, 2022
Thirty four countries comprising the International Whaling Commission (IWC) met on the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada in late May to vote, debate and grandstand on a wide agenda of resolutions pertaining to whale protection and whale destruction.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: October 18, 2022
The 2000 Clark R. Bavin Law Enforcement Award recipients are as follows.
Date created: October 16, 2020
Last updated: February 28, 2024
Despite overwhelming evidence that the world’s whales are struggling against a huge array of new threats, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted in Adelaide, Australia, July 3-6, to fast track a scheme designed to legitimize commercial whaling.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: October 18, 2022
Every year, hundreds of well-educated, well-dressed, and well-paid government officials from about forty countries convene for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and clash over how much whaling the world will allow.
Date created: October 15, 2020
Last updated: February 28, 2024
The combative tenor of the 54th annual conference of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set the day before the opening gavel struck on Monday, May 20 in the whaling city of Shimonoseki, Japan.
Date created: October 15, 2020
Last updated: February 28, 2024
The differences of opinion at the annual meetings of the International Whaling Commission are so familiar and fundamental that observers have become accustomed to deadlock.
Date created: May 26, 2021
Last updated: October 18, 2022
Today was the opening day, and AWI attended, presented our opening statement, and distributed the current AWI Quarterly, pointing out the Sakhalin and acoustic committee articles.
Date created: April 15, 2015
Last updated: January 30, 2023
Susan Tomiak and Tom Garrett are attending the 57th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Ulsan, South Korea.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: January 30, 2023
The 58th International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting takes place in the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis. AWI's Susan Millward is currently attending the sub-committee discussions that take place from June 9th through June 13th.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: January 30, 2023
The 2007 Clark R. Bavin Law Enforcement Award recipients are as follows.
Date created: January 22, 2009
Last updated: February 28, 2024
The final day opened early and was then immediately closed to observers so that a private commissioners meeting could convene. The meeting reopened a little later with a more decisive air and a renewed desire to move things along.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: October 31, 2022
AWI is represented at this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting by D.J. Schubert, Serda Ozbenian and Craig Van Note, veteran IWC expert. This is an extraordinary meeting for the very future of the body is being debated. AWI can only hope that its future is brighter than its past.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: February 28, 2024
61st Annual International Whaling Commission Meeting - Madeira, Portugal
Date created: June 21, 2009
Last updated: October 31, 2022
The 2010 Clark R. Bavin Law Enforcement Award recipients are as follows.
Date created: June 6, 2022
Last updated: February 28, 2024
The 62nd meeting of the International Whaling Commission is being held in Agadir, Morocco. This is potentially a pivotal meeting as the body is discussing its very future, a future that may include a return to sanctioned commercial whaling if some delegations have their way.
Date created: August 4, 2010
Last updated: February 28, 2024
Before the substantive agenda items of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) could be addressed, issues such as voting rights and meeting arrangements were established on the morning of the first day of Plenary.
Date created: May 23, 2011
Last updated: February 28, 2024
The 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opened on Monday, July 2 in Panama City, Panama. This “plenary” IWC meeting is the culmination of more than three weeks of meetings of scientific and technical committees which have been working in closed sessions, discussing a vast range of conservation, welfare and management issues for the IWC to consider and maybe even vote upon.
Date created: July 2, 2012
Last updated: February 28, 2024
The Christine Stevens Wildlife Award is a grant program—named in honor of the organization’s late founder and president for over 50 years—created to stimulate and support efforts to devise new, non-lethal techniques and strategies for the purpose of humanely remedying human-wildlife conflicts.
Date created: February 25, 2014
Last updated: January 10, 2020
The 2013 Clark R. Bavin Law Enforcement Award recipients are as follows.
Date created: June 6, 2022
Last updated: February 28, 2024
