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
… delegation to the IWC expressing our concern over the US position and outlining instances that we have witnessed which demonstrate the US' shift away from a position of whale protectionism. The response we received in …
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
… International Whaling Commision (IWC) … AWI’s Opening Statement To determine the future of the IWC, we must look to … little agreeable middle ground. The US is in an intriguing position, as current Chair of the Commission and architect of … on the US delegation to the meeting. AWI's opening statement outlined the need to protect whales along with …
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 fate of the body. Click here to read AWI's opening statement. June 22, 2010 - Day 2 With the Commissioners … intense back and forth resulted with Japan restating its position that it had to be included under the “future” … led by Argentina and other Latin nations, restating their position that the “future” item was effectively closed. A …
Date created: August 4, 2010
Last updated: February 28, 2024
… achievement in the IWC progress. Japan also gave a short statement on the 3/11 earthquake, thanking the international … loss to the science, irrespective of a country’s position towards whales. Concerning the Western North Pacific … astonishment at India’s intervention and hope that the position is of the Indian delegate, not of the …
Date created: May 23, 2011
Last updated: February 28, 2024
… for cetaceans that the next week will bring. AWI’s Opening Statement The 64 th meeting of the International Whaling … requested by Russia for its aboriginal peoples. Its needs statement, like many others, does not contain the level of … research whaling program, and that it couldn’t take a position until it received that information. Eventually the …
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: April 24, 2024
The 2013 Clark R. Bavin Law Enforcement Award recipients are as follows.
Date created: June 6, 2022
Last updated: February 28, 2024
