Our country’s vital wildlife protections are facing ongoing attacks that have unraveled decades of progress.
Date created: September 3, 2020
Last updated: September 3, 2020
On Santa Catalina Island, scientists have advanced the science of immunocontraception as a safe and effective tool to humanely manage the island’s bison.
Date created: February 25, 2014
Last updated: January 10, 2020
We discuss the properties of controllability and complexity in novel object enrichment, their definition and present a critique of previous work related to them.
Date created: May 13, 2016
Last updated: October 30, 2020
It was reported in January that government officials and the California American Water Company (Cal Am) had reached an agreement regarding the future of the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River.
Date created: July 9, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
… updates provided by AWI during the course of the meeting. Tuesday, September 27 Johannesburg, South Africa—The 17 th … were lobbying to amend these decisions. Sure enough, on Tuesday afternoon, Kuwait moved to reopen the decision to …
Date created: September 22, 2016
Last updated: October 15, 2020
In March, representatives from 184 countries, scientists and advocates will gather in Doha, Qatar for the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Date created: February 25, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
A meta-analysis recently published in the journal BMC Biology (Cait et al., 2022) found that rats and mice housed in conventional laboratory cages have higher mortality rates and greater disease severity compared to rodents housed in “enr
Date created: April 19, 2022
Last updated: April 25, 2022
A judge in the West Africa country of Togo threw the book at convicted ivory trafficker Emile N’Bouke on June 18, sentencing him to the maximum penalty permitted by Togo law—two years in prison, and a fine equivalent to US $10,300.
Date created: August 20, 2014
Last updated: January 8, 2020
A federal judge in November upheld the listing of Alaska’s Cook Inlet beluga whales as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), rejecting a bid by the state of Alaska to overturn it.
Date created: February 24, 2012
Last updated: January 15, 2020
A recent study published in Current Biology by a group of international researchers shows that Caribbean reef fish populations have been steadily declining for more than a decade.
Date created: August 11, 2009
Last updated: January 16, 2020
… We also called on our supporters for help. This year, on “Giving Tuesday Now”—a worldwide day of charity modeled after Giving Tuesday in November—AWI committed to donating 100 …
Date created: June 17, 2020
Last updated: July 13, 2020
In February, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) introduced the RESCUE Whales Act (HR 1213).
Date created: June 20, 2023
Last updated: April 17, 2024
Blood sampling via venipuncture is probably the most common experimental procedure that laboratory rhesus monkeys are subjected to. The procedure is generally unsatisfactory because of the animals' resistance to it. Such resistance may jeopardize unbiased research and should therefore be avoided.
Date created: May 19, 2016
Last updated: October 30, 2020
Ticos (as Costa Ricans call themselves) use a Latin phrase to define the noble intentions of their new wildlife regulations, adopted in 2017: in dubio pro natura—when in doubt, favor nature.
Date created: March 23, 2018
Last updated: March 23, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased to add Country music artist Clay Canfield’s support to the organization’s ongoing efforts to protect America's wild horses. Clay is donating a percentage of proceeds from his song, Wild Horses, to AWI.
Date created: March 22, 2010
Last updated: May 2, 2022
Research performed by AWI suggests that Country of Origin Labeling (“COOL”) may reduce the suffering of animals by curbing the long-distance transport of animals from Canada and Mexico.
Date created: May 7, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
Conservation groups late yesterday asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina to stop the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) from capturing and killing—and authorizing private landowners to capture and kill—members of the rapidly dwindling population of wild red wolves. The conservation groups—represented in court by the Southern Environmental Law Center—are the Animal Welfare Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Red Wolf Coalition.
Date created: June 21, 2016
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Earlier this month, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), and Project Coyote obtained a default ruling in our lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for waiving state permit requirements for controversial penning facilities like WCI Foxhound Training Preserve (WCI). The judge signed, without changes, our proposed judgment, which included a declaration that WCI’s possession of coyotes without a permit is unlawful.
Date created: December 19, 2012
Last updated: February 2, 2022
After a long and winding process, a federal court has turned aside Georgia Aquarium’s attempt to import wild beluga whales from Russia. In June 2012, Georgia Aquarium applied for a Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) permit to import 18 wild-caught beluga whales from the Sea of Okhotsk.
Date created: December 30, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
On November 5, AWI and co-plaintiffs won a significant victory in our ongoing litigation to protect red wolves, when a federal court agreed that the US Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Polic
Date created: December 20, 2018
Last updated: December 21, 2018
The US District Court for the Northern District of California, on August 11, struck down a decision by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to allow wind energy developers to obtain 30-year permits to accidentally kill or injure (“take”) bald and golden eagles (see AWI Quarterly, winter 2014).
Date created: December 31, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
In June, a federal judge in Arizona struck down the Department of Justice’s longstanding “McKittrick Policy.” This policy advised the DOJ’s attorneys to prosecute individuals who killed threatened and endangered species in violation of the Endange
Date created: September 1, 2017
Last updated: September 1, 2017
A federal court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s authorization of coyote hunting—including at night—in the five-county area of eastern North Carolina inhabited by the world’s only wild population of about 100 endangered red wolves. The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) sought the injunction in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on behalf of the Animal Welfare Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Red Wolf Coalition.
Date created: May 14, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
A North Carolina court halted a temporary state rule that allowed spotlight hunting of coyotes at night in the five-county area of eastern North Carolina inhabited by the world’s only wild population of red wolves (Canis rufus) on Wednesday, November 21. The ruling came in response to a preliminary injunction motion and request for expedited hearing filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) in Wake County Superior Court on behalf of the Animal Welfare Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Red Wolf Coalition.
Date created: November 21, 2012
Last updated: February 2, 2022
A federal court in Virginia has taken the extraordinary step of granting the Department of Justice a temporary restraining order against a facility in Cumberland, Virginia, that breeds and sells beagles for experimentation.
Date created: June 14, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
