Joining with a growing public chorus of outrage at a recent proposal by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and their Wild Horse Advisory board to euthanize up to 33,000 wild horses, several leaders in the US House of Representatives sent a letter to the agency stressing their strong opposition to any such effort.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
When Congress hustled out of town in September, it left a lot of unfinished business. Both the House Agriculture Committee and the full Senate had approved amendments to their farm bills that would prohibit attending or bringing a child to an animal fight.
Date created: December 3, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES CoP) is taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, from Sunday, March 3, through Thursday, March 14. AWI is there to vigorously campaign for further protections for animals and their habitats.
Date created: February 19, 2013
Last updated: April 24, 2024
A coalition of international animal protection and conservation organizations has urgently asked the Obama administration to impose economic sanctions against Icelandic companies with corporate ties to the commercial whaling industry.
Date created: June 15, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
More than 150 conservation groups have signed a letter to President Obama asking him to oppose all policy “riders” that would undermine the Endangered Species Act during negotiations on final spending legislation for Fiscal Year 2016.
Date created: November 17, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Following the federally authorized gunshot death of a mother red wolf—a critically endangered species—in the Red Wolf Recovery Area of eastern North Carolina, conservation groups today demanded the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) ensure the survival of the world’s only wild red wolf population, including an unknown number of puppies mothered by this wolf.
Date created: June 23, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Conservation groups are calling on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its member governments to condemn Iceland’s commercial whale hunt following confirmation that the Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf has killed yet another endangered fin whale.
Date created: June 17, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
A coalition of conservation and animal protection organizations confirmed today that more than 1,500 metric tons of products from endangered Icelandic fin whales were shipped to Japan in July 2016. The discovery comes just prior to the 17th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which starts in Johannesburg, South Africa, on September 24.
Date created: September 22, 2016
Last updated: May 2, 2022
WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) have discovered that, in the latest desperate effort to prop up a dying industry, Hvalur hf, Iceland’s fin whaling company, has joined forces with Aquaship, a shipping company with a troubling record, to transport meat from endangered fin whales through Russian waters to Japan.
Date created: June 12, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Conservation organizations launched an online campaign this week entitled “The Truth about Red Wolves,” aimed at building support for the dwindling population of the world’s only wild red wolves in North Carolina. The campaign is currently advertised on The Outer Banks Voice.
Date created: November 19, 2015
Last updated: January 17, 2024
Conservation groups filed a petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to ban the import and sale of threatened Banggai cardinalfish from Indonesia.
Date created: April 22, 2021
Last updated: January 18, 2024
On behalf of the Red Wolf Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Animal Welfare Institute, the Southern Environmental Law Center today sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina for violations of the Endangered Species Act caused by new, illegal agency policies that bar the use of proven management measures to save wild red wolves.
Date created: November 16, 2020
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Conservation groups filed a complaint late yesterday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for its failure to protect the world’s only wild population of red wolves and its illegal action in authorizing the killing of a breeding female red wolf. The conservation groups involved in the litigation include the Red Wolf Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), and are represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC).
Date created: November 13, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Responding to the United Nations’ recent decision to award Japan a much coveted non-permanent seat on the Security Council, 65 conservation and animal protection organizations opposed to Japan’s commercial whaling are protesting to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Japan’s recent conduct does not befit such a privilege.
Date created: December 9, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), In Defense of Animals (IDA), the American Environment Foundation (AEF), and two individuals asked the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) of the US Department of the Interior in a 14-page letter to cancel an illegal black bear hunt scheduled for Dec.1 and 2 in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Date created: October 12, 2011
Last updated: February 2, 2022
On the day before Mexico’s National Day of Conservation, conservation groups are calling on the Mexican government to enact forceful protective measures to save the critically endangered vaquita, a tiny porpoise species that only inhabits the upper Gulf of California.
Date created: November 26, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Local conservationists rallied outside the Mexican Embassy today in support of the vaquita marina, the world’s smallest and most endangered porpoise, found only in Mexico’s Gulf of California. Participating organizations and individuals urged the Mexican government to enforce a permanent ban on gillnets in the Gulf to save the species, which number less than 100. The rally was held in recognition of International Save the Vaquita Day 2015, to be observed on Saturday, July 11.
Date created: July 9, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Pocatell, ID – Today a coalition of conservation organizations sued the U.S. Forest Service for failure to require permits and environmental impacts analysis for the advertised "Coyote and Wolf Derby" in Salmon, Idaho, December 28 and 29..
Date created: December 20, 2013
Last updated: February 2, 2022
New World primates have evolved over millions of years and have developed complex physiological, anatomical and behavioral adaptations to live in Neotropical forests (Figure l). Caretakers should seek knowledge of the natural lifestyles of the primates in their charge, and attempt to reproduce in the captive environment the salient aspects of the natural habitats that are biologically relevant to the animals.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: October 29, 2020
The Animal Welfare Institute has sent letters of warning to restaurants in major cities that offer shark fin soup on their menus. In addition, the organization is working to expand its campaign from Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco to the entire nation.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
A new poll commissioned by members of the Make Stewardship Count coalition indicates that the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) could face a significant erosion of consumer confidence as a result of the certification body’s inattention to a number of critical issues, including the bycatch of endangered and threatened species, the deliberate encirclement of dolphins, shark finning and habitat destruction.
Date created: April 26, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Communicating with department officials as well as commission or board members is an important way of advocating to protect wild animals in your state. This database provides contact information you can use to get in touch with your state’s wildlife officials, commissioners, and board members about issues affecting wildlife in your state.
Date created: June 16, 2021
Last updated: October 6, 2021
Animal Welfare Institute
900 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 337-2332
[email protected]
Date created: May 16, 2017
Last updated: April 1, 2021
On July 31, AWI and the Humane Education Network announced the winners of the 2022 “A Voice for Animals” contest.
Date created: September 1, 2022
Last updated: September 8, 2022
A new photo exhibit on Capitol Hill examines how a US-Mexico border wall could cause irreversible damage to human communities and wildlife. The exhibit, running through June 15 in the Russell Rotunda, features images by Krista Schlyer, an award-winning photographer and writer whose work focuses on conservation, biodiversity and public lands. In 2012, Schlyer published a book called “Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall,” which depicts the visual beauty of the region along the US-Mexico borderlands.
Date created: June 12, 2018
Last updated: January 18, 2024