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The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today that it has been awarded an A+ rating by CharityWatch, a leading independent charity-rating organization, in its recently released Winter 2014-2015 Charity Rating Guide & Watchdog Report. Of the 41 charities evaluated by CharityWatch in the “Animal and Animal Protection” category of its report, AWI was the sole organization to receive this highest rating. This is the fourth consecutive year that AWI has received an A+ rating from CharityWatch.
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Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 2017 (H.R. 1817)

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In other news related to horse welfare, a major victory was gained when the Chicago City Council voted 46–4 to ban the use of horse-drawn carriages in the city. The law takes effect next year.

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Nestled in the Western New York community of Alfred, Windy Ridge Natural Farms is a pasture-based poultry farm that raises its laying hens in accordance with AWI’s Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) standards.

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Residents of Delaware’s Inland Bays community are crying foul on a nearby Mountaire Farms chicken plant that produces millions of gallons of wastewater a month from slaughtering and processing chickens.

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"Chimp Crazy,” the four-part docuseries premiering August 18 on HBO Max, aims to expose the dangerous and cruel trade in primates as pets that has destroyed lives — both human and nonhuman — across the country.
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Though the proverb warns that "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," it makes no mention of primates in zoo exhibits. Santino, a 30-year-old chimp in Sweden's Furuvik zoo, has been doing just that for 14 years now, angrily launching rocks and discs of concrete into crowds of tourists, New Scientist reported on their website in March.

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Chimpanzees have been found to be the only readily available nonhuman primates which are highly susceptible to HIV-1 infection: their use in AIDS research, however, raises difficult bioethical questions. Four years ago, a group of scientists addressed the issue of the supply of chimpanzees for AIDS research [ 17] and concluded that sufficient animals were already available in medical research facilities to satisfy reasonable needs for the foreseeable future, so that importing of additional animals from the wild could not be justified. This situation has not changed.
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On April 4, 2014, in a Notice of Agency Decision, NIH announced its new requirement regarding the minimum floor space required for each of the remaining chimpanzees in NIH-supported research (see Summer 2013 AWI Quarterly). NIH’s Council of Councils Working Group on the Use of Chimpanzees in NIH-Supported Research (Working Group) had originally recommended 1,000 ft2 per chimpanzee. This recommendation, however, was rejected.

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China’s health ministry has announced new dietary guidelines for the nation’s 1.4 billion inhabitants. The guidelines now recommend no more than 40 to 75 grams (1.4 to 2.6 ounces) of meat per person per day—a 50 percent reduction of the current average consumption.

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On October 29, the State Council of China issued a policy directive indicating that the use of horn and bones from farmed rhinos and tigers for “medical research or in healing” would be allowed—reversing a 25-year ban on the practice.

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Investigators have confirmed that, for the first time, China has overtaken the United States as holder of the highest number of captive orcas (22). A report released today by the China Cetacean Alliance (CCA)—a coalition of international and Chinese animal welfare organizations—indicates that most of these orcas are on public display with minimal welfare safeguards.
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The China Cetacean Alliance (CCA), a coalition of international and Chinese animal welfare organizations officially launched at a media event in Beijing last week, issued an unprecedented report on the captive cetacean industry in mainland China.
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Beginning March 31, 2017, China is embarking on a deliberate, nine-month sequential procedure to shut down its ivory industry. In so doing, it is dismantling the world’s most important marketplace for both legal and contraband ivory. Hardly anyone anticipated that the decision would be so sudden, comprehensive, and authoritative.

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Both Congress and the Trump administration continue their assaults on wildlife, particularly through efforts to undermine the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Robert W. Shumaker
National Zoological Park, Washington, DC

 

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Chris Fisher, a bright, energetic and determined individual, passed away in April.

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An award program to fund innovative strategies for humane, nonlethal wildlife conflict management and i

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On March 5, 2015, Feld Entertainment, Inc., the world’s largest live family entertainment company and owner of the largest number of Asian elephants in North America, announced it would end elephant performances in its Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus by 2018. The news spread like wildfire and caught the attention of local and major news outlets across the country.

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The Animal Welfare Institute’s case against Feld Entertainment, Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, finally went to trial in February.

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Representatives Raúl M.

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AWI joined several hundred delegates representing nearly 80 countries and a similar number of observer organizations in Geneva this July for the 33rd meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna a

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Over 200 wildlife experts from around the world met in Tel Aviv in late August/early September at the 28th meeting of the Animals Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

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Over 260 representatives of nearly 50 countries and more than 60 organizations met in Geneva in June at the 32nd meeting of the Animals Committee to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)—the co

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