In a letter issued today to President Donald Trump and Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) president Cathy Liss applauded the President’s November 17 decision to halt the import of sport-hunted elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Date created: November 21, 2017
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is urging the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) to halt their acquisition of research animals from Inotiv; its subsidiaries, Envigo Global Services and Orient BioResource Center; and Worldwide Primates until federal officials can investigate the serious allegations of abuse and wildlife trafficking in which these companies are embroiled.
Date created: November 30, 2022
Last updated: January 18, 2024
In a letter delivered November 30, AWI urged the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to “re-evaluate their relian
Date created: December 16, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
AWI has battled with the US Department of Agriculture for years over its practice of automatically renewing the licenses of puppy mills, roadside zoos, and others who are habitually out of compliance with the standards of the Animal Welfare Act (A
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: January 4, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes Iceland’s decision Monday to stop fin whale hunting until August 31, 2023.
Date created: June 20, 2023
Last updated: June 20, 2023
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is relieved to hear that no whales will be killed by Icelandic whalers this summer. In a June television news interview, Ólafur Ólafsson, a whaling vessel captain, said that the two fin whaling vessels operated by Hvalur hf will remain dockside for now, despite the Iceland government’s decision in late February to set a whaling quota of 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales annually from 2019 to 2023.
Date created: June 5, 2019
Last updated: February 7, 2022
AWI has long been involved in the issue of anthropogenic ocean noise directly or indirectly generated by the military, the oil and gas industry, commercial shipping, and scientific research.
Date created: March 23, 2018
Last updated: March 23, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) for introducing today the Right Whale Coexistence Act to help protect the highly imperiled North Atlantic right whale.
Date created: February 16, 2022
Last updated: February 22, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes bills—introduced today by Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Don Beyer (D-VA), and Debbie Dingell (D-MI), and Senator Tom Udall (D-NM)—to repeal the devastating regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act that were finalized last month by the Trump administration.
Date created: September 17, 2019
Last updated: January 18, 2024
This year, AWI welcomes four esteemed individuals to its Scientific Committee: Drs. Frank Cipriano, Cristina Eisenberg, David Fraser, and Richard Reading. They will join three long-standing members on the committee: Drs. Roger Fouts, Viktor Reinhardt, and Robert Schmidt. The deep knowledge, experience, perspective, ethics, and commitment of these scientists help AWI work toward our objectives on behalf of animals. We are grateful for their support.
Date created: June 9, 2021
Last updated: April 17, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute congratulates Governor Eddie Baza Calvo of Guam for signing Bill 44-31 into law, prohibiting any person from possessing, selling or distributing shark fins in the territory.
Date created: March 10, 2011
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Sunday, on the first day of the 117th Congress, the Preventing Future Pandemics Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives to address the spillover of emerging infectious diseases from wildlife to humans.
Date created: January 4, 2021
Last updated: February 2, 2022
A federal district court in Georgia last Friday granted a request to intervene filed by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), Cetacean Society International, and Earth Island Institute in a lawsuit challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) denial of a request for a permit to import 18 wild-caught beluga whales from Russia for public display.
Date created: April 21, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
At the annual Association of Professional Humane Educators (APHE) Educator’s Choice Awards in April, AWI took home the top prize in the category “Best Education Resources” for our suite
Date created: June 24, 2024
Last updated: June 28, 2024
As interest in farm animal welfare and environmental sustainability increases, more and more producers of meat, poultry, dairy, and egg products seek to assure potential customers—via claims on food packaging—that their animals are raised using higher standards. Unfortunately, it can be hard for consumers to determine the truth of these label claims for a number of reasons.
Date created: October 10, 2019
Last updated: January 23, 2020
Each year, nearly 12 million cargo containers enter the United States via a network of 360 US seaports. Monitoring, tracking and inspecting such a huge number of shipments is a major challenge for those intent on stemming the rapid escalation in wildlife trade—illegal wildlife trade, in particular.
Date created: March 6, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) is the only legally binding environmental treaty in the region focused on the protection of biodiversity.
Date created: October 10, 2019
Last updated: January 23, 2020
The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region—commonly referred to as the Cartagena Convention—is the only legally binding regional environmental treaty focused on the protection of biodiversity. Adopted in 1983 in Cartagena, Colombia, the treaty entered into force in 1986.
Date created: December 22, 2016
Last updated: April 24, 2024
House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees have again expressed disappointment with the pace of efforts by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to end the purchase of dogs and cats from random source Class B dealers by its external grant recipients.
Date created: November 8, 2010
Last updated: January 8, 2020
Four baboons housed in an outdoor corral escaped from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) by using a 55-gallon barrel to scale the enclosure.
Date created: July 2, 2018
Last updated: July 6, 2018
Out of sight, out of mind. The adage captures one of AWI’s central concerns when it comes to the slaughter of pigs in the United States.
Date created: June 21, 2023
Last updated: June 26, 2023
Two captive beluga whales who had been held at an entertainment facility in China have just been given a chance to stretch their flippers in a new sea pen sanctuary.
Date created: September 3, 2020
Last updated: September 3, 2020
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Date created: November 9, 2017
Last updated: May 10, 2018
Floyd and Susan Martin were random source Class B dealers who, over the years, kept thousands of animals in appalling conditions at their Chestnut Grove Kennels in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Date created: May 21, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
The second session of the 114th Congress opened in January. On the 20th of the month, despite strong minority opposition and contentious debate, the Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works approved the “Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act” (S 659).
Date created: April 5, 2016
Last updated: January 15, 2020
