Three recent studies highlight the enormous impact that shark fishing and the demand for fins continue to have on global shark populations, as well as the difficulties inherent in efforts to stem illegal trade in fins and protect vulnerable specie
Date created: April 8, 2024
Last updated: April 22, 2024
Since her first visit to an aquarium at age 9, Clark’s dream was to learn everything there was to know about her favorite animals—sharks. Shark Lady is a story of how one woman overcame misconceptions about both what girls can do and what sharks are like.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Between 2000 and 2008, an estimated one out of every 100 sharks caught around the globe was killed off the coast of Senegal.
Date created: February 24, 2012
Last updated: January 15, 2020
There is good news to report from the last days of the 111th Congress: Legislation to close loopholes in the 11-year-old ban on shark finning finally passed and was signed by the president. With one exemption (which AWI opposed), the new law prohibits the removal of shark fins at sea within all U.S. waters.
Date created: February 7, 2011
Last updated: April 24, 2024
It is no secret that there is a worldwide extinction crisis plaguing the world’s sharks, and this crisis is fueled primarily by anthropogenic sources. In addition to overfishing, pollution, and climate change, shark finning remains the critical factor in plummeting shark populations. It is currently predicted that 28 percent of shark species will go extinct within a decade or two, and up to 73 million sharks are killed annually for their fins.
Date created: December 9, 2014
Last updated: December 4, 2019
As long as there is a market for shark fins, fishermen will continue to find ways to elude shark finning bans. The newest loophole fishermen are exploiting is called “shark spining.”
Date created: November 17, 2014
Last updated: January 17, 2024
As Shark Week kicks off this week, more than 200 restaurants across the United States and Canada are exacerbating the rapid decline in shark species by continuing to serve an expensive soup made from their butchered fins.
Date created: August 10, 2020
Last updated: January 18, 2024
Humans kill an estimated 100 million sharks every year. Sharkwater: Extinction—the second shark documentary directed and written by the late Rob Stewart—seeks to expose practices that contribute to the cruel and unsustainable slaughter of the world’s sharks.
Date created: July 1, 2019
Last updated: April 17, 2024
Responding to legal pressure from a coalition of animal protection and conservation groups, Shasta County officials have announced that the county will suspend its contract with the notorious federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services.
Date created: July 24, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Most of the world’s more than 2 billion sheep and goats are grazed on range in countries such as Australia and New Zealand. Farmers in the United States raised nearly 5.2 million sheep and 2.6 million goats in 2021, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Some operations in the United States raise sheep and goats in similar intensive conditions as other farm animals.
Date created: September 20, 2011
Last updated: August 17, 2023
Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) has reintroduced his nonbinding resolution, H.Res. 208, expressing opposition to the use of gas chambers to euthanize shelter animals and calling on states to ban the practice and allow euthanasia by injection (EBI) only.
Date created: August 23, 2013
Last updated: April 24, 2024
AWI isn’t usually involved in disaster relief and recovery, but when there’s a problem staring us in the face and we know we can make a difference, we act.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: December 4, 2019
Date created: June 24, 2024
Last updated: June 28, 2024
In May, two dead fin whales, believed to be a mother and calf, were discovered after they dislodged from the hull of a Royal Australian Navy vessel. The destroyer, HMAS Sydney, had been conducting exercises with the US Navy and was berthing in San Diego when the 65-foot-long larger whale floated to the surface.
Date created: June 9, 2021
Last updated: June 23, 2021
A January 19 article in The New York Times shined an extremely harsh light on the practices at the USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Clay Center, Nebraska. The in-depth article described indefensible acts that have taken place at MARC over the past several decades.
Date created: March 6, 2015
Last updated: October 15, 2020
he Save Japan Dolphins Coalition joins the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) in releasing a shocking new video of the cruel slaughter of dolphins by Japanese whalers. Japan is pushing the International Whaling Commission (IWC), meeting in Santiago, Chile, June 23-27, to overturn the 20-year old commercial whaling moratorium by allowing it to conduct commercial whaling off its shores.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
The mysterious lives of animals have been the subjects of countless films and nature shows. Though these productions might focus on similar themes, filmmakers are driven by a variety of motivations, and may use vastly different methods to capture animals on film.
Date created: September 7, 2010
Last updated: April 24, 2024
American consumers are increasingly concerned about how animals raised for food are treated. But those wishing to purchase a higher-welfare turkey for Thanksgiving this year will be bombarded with a number of misleading turkey labels sanctioned by the US Department of Agriculture, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has found.
Date created: November 10, 2020
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Only about 100 or so wild red wolves (Canis rufus) are known to exist—all in eastern North Carolina, where a population was reintroduced in 1987 from a captive-breeding program after the species went extinct in the wild.
Date created: November 29, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
A court in Germany is investigating whether killing animals bred for labs but never used in research constitutes a crime, since German law forbids hurting animals without reasonable cause.
Date created: June 14, 2022
Last updated: June 24, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute and Humane Society International applaud Shun Lee West restaurant, of New York City, for removing shark fin soup from its menu. AWI and HSI have, for years, been campaigning for restaurants in the United States to stop selling shark fin products and consumers from purchasing them. Shun Lee West is a favorite restaurant for tourists and theater goers due to its prominent location by New York’s Lincoln Center.
Date created: April 27, 2011
Last updated: February 2, 2022
On May 19, 2012, the Sierra Club national board of directors adopted a new “Policy on Trapping of Wildlife.” The policy is perhaps the strongest statement issued to date by the 110-year-old organization in condemnation of inhumane activities targeting wildlife.
Date created: November 30, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
AWI is endorsing an effort by Arizonans for Wildlife (AFW), a coalition of nonprofit organizations and Arizona state legislators, to collect signatures for a ballot initiative that would outlaw trophy hunting and trapping of bobcats, mountain lion
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced in June its intent to eradicate the state’s mute swan population by “reducing it to as low a level as can be achieved.” The DNR blames the swans for excessive consumption of aquatic gras
Date created: August 11, 2009
Last updated: April 18, 2024
In the fashion world, accessories are a must to accentuate the style from top-name designers.
Date created: December 6, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2020
