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In this issue: an in-depth analysis of China's stunning decision to shut down its ivory industry; meet Isaac, a sanctuary monkey with a rather surprising imagination; laboratory animal care personnel discuss ways to improve the lives of rabbits in research; meanwhile, the USDA scrubs its website of enforcement records and shrugs at horrendous Animal Welfare Act violations by a large animal research conglomerate.
Date created: March 17, 2017
Last updated: April 24, 2024
In this issue, AWI examines the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s efforts to ease restrictions on importation of elephant, lion, and other animal trophies from Africa—even as the president expresses his displeasure at the move, and major airlines take a decisive stand against carrying such trophies. Get the latest from CITES Standing Committee deliberations aimed at protecting animals affected by legal and illegal international trade. Read how Costa Rica is raising the bar when it comes to wild animal welfare laws. And for students: A Voice for Animals contest is back!
Date created: March 23, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
AWI’s analysis of what’s at stake at the May meeting of nations in Sri Lanka to discuss CITES—the primary international treaty to protect wildlife subject to trade. Meet John Thompson, this year’s recipient of AWI’s Schweitzer Medal, and learn how he has helped transform law enforcement’s response to animal cruelty crimes. Get a first look at the new, expanded edition of The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity report.
Date created: April 4, 2019
Last updated: April 24, 2024
In this issue: what is lost when US environmental laws are weakened; behind-the-scenes chicanery that is killing horses at US racetracks; the inexorable, welcome decline of commercial whaling; unchecked animal abuse at the nation’s primary supplier of chinchillas for research; kind souls knitting nests to help rehabilitate wildlife. Also, for researchers: apply now for grants to study ways to reduce human-wildlife conflicts. And for high school students: enter the “A Voice for Animals” contest!
Date created: March 25, 2020
Last updated: April 24, 2024
A call to end mink farming—a cruel, outdated industry that is also an incubator for COVID-19. AWI launches a challenge before the Federal Trade Commission to a deceptive animal welfare label claim by a prominent poultry producer. The USFWS is told (in court) to get it in gear on red wolf recovery. AWI scholarship winners take animal welfare ethic to college, while cuttlefish flex their brains by passing the famed marshmallow test. A new whale species is identified in the Gulf of Mexico.
Date created: March 24, 2021
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Amid the terrible humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, many Ukrainian animals are suffering the devastation of war as well. Learn what AWI is doing to help, and how you can help too. Also in this issue: Namibia’s controversial sale of wild-caught elephants to a foreign zoo. Gray wolves regain some Endangered Species Act protections, while grizzly bears face continued efforts to remove protections. Hawaii becomes the first US state to ban shark fishing. And a tribute to the late Senator Bob Dole, one of Capitol Hill’s true animal welfare champions.
Date created: April 18, 2022
Last updated: April 24, 2024
A retrospective on the Christine Stevens Wildlife Awards—advancing win-win solutions for wildlife and people. Animal care staff recount personal triumphs in the ongoing effort to provide better lives for animals in research. AWI seeks significant reforms to USDA oversight of animal slaughter. More scrutiny over potential wildlife trafficking in Cambodia-to-US primate pipeline. Birds in pet trade and exhibits gain long-overdue Animal Welfare Act protections. AWI fondly remembers three marine life champions.
Date created: April 3, 2023
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AWI helps secure protections for Caribbean wildlife, reports on conditions for captive orcas in China, and pushes for US standards to prevent grueling long-distance transport of newborn calves and others unfit to travel. In a Colorado corral, tragic consequences of the BLM’s wild horse management failures. National Primate Research Centers seek to expand while ignoring chronic welfare issues. And a global campaign to end the brutal annual cull of Australia’s kangaroos gains steam.
Date created: April 8, 2024
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In the early 2000s, every time animal advocates turned around, it seemed there was a new proposal for a dolphinarium in the Caribbean. We fought every one—some were halted; others went forward. Then everything went quiet for a few years.
Date created: June 23, 2017
Last updated: June 23, 2017
AWI continues to work with NGOs and individuals in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to bring an end to its cruel and wasteful humpback whale hunt. We are particularly supportive of local efforts to encourage the few remaining whalers to transition to a much more sustainable whale watching industry.
Date created: May 21, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
Two states and several local governments joined a growing list of jurisdictions acting on behalf of wild and exotic animals exploited by circuses and other traveling exhibitions this past year.
Date created: March 23, 2018
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A coalition of more than 20 wildlife conservation organizations, representing more than a million Californians, are calling on the California Department of Wildlife and California Fish and Game Commission to stop a planned coyote-hunting contest scheduled for early February in Modoc County.
Date created: January 31, 2013
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At last November’s Partnership Meeting on Wildlife Trafficking hosted at the U.S. State Department, outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton noted that over the past few years, wildlife trafficking has become more organized, lucrative, widespread, and dangerous than ever before, rivaled in size only by trade in illegal arms and drugs.
Date created: February 19, 2013
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Date created: July 28, 2017
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As in Washington, DC, the new year ushered in new sessions in state legislatures, and bills to improve animal welfare have been introduced in several of them—including the Michigan circus animal bill mentioned at left.
Date created: April 4, 2019
Last updated: April 4, 2019
Since the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) stripped Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections from gray wolves across most of the country last year, the embattled animals have come under unprecedented attack in several states.
Date created: August 19, 2021
Last updated: August 30, 2021
Several states have added new protections for domestic violence survivors and their pets, bringing to 37 the number of states that allow for the inclusion of pets in domestic violence protection orders or include animal cruelty in the definition of domestic violence.
Date created: October 10, 2019
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