The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Committees for including monumental victories for animal welfare in the final Fiscal Year 2020 spending package.
Date created: December 17, 2019
Last updated: January 18, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute has been evaluated by Charity Navigator and has received the highest rating.
Date created: June 27, 2011
Last updated: January 4, 2024
Dr. Karen Herman, Executive Director, Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary
Date created: July 2, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
To care about animal welfare is to care about the environment in which animals live. In Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Dr. Suzanne Simard puts it simply: “Mistreatment of one species is mistreatment of all.”
Date created: April 20, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
In 2018, a female Southern Resident orca off the coast of Washington captured hearts and minds around the world with her apparently grief-stricken reaction to the death of her newborn calf, who lived less than 30 minutes.
Date created: September 3, 2020
Last updated: September 3, 2020
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Animal Housing—the body that oversees development and revisions of the Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities Code (NFPA 150)—has taken a monumental step toward stre
Date created: September 4, 2024
Last updated: September 13, 2024
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is an international nonprofit organization seeking to eliminate death, injury, and economic loss due to fire and related hazards.
Date created: August 19, 2021
Last updated: August 30, 2021
Disasters like floods, roof collapses and fires are not uncommon occurrences on factory farms. And given the large numbers of animals confined on these operations, such emergencies can kill tens - even hundreds - of thousands of living beings in a matter of minutes.
Date created: February 7, 2011
Last updated: January 10, 2020
In November 2012, the industry journal Lab Animal published an extraordinary profile of licensed veterinary technologist Santina Caruso, entitled “Working with animals is ‘in her blood.’” Why was this feature extraordinary?
Date created: May 28, 2014
Last updated: January 9, 2020
A federal district court in Utah has ruled the state’s “ag-gag” law is unconstitutional. The law made it illegal for an individual to use false pretenses to gain access to or surveil an agricultural operation.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Two dozen conservation and animal-welfare groups sent a letter today urging the US Fish and Wildlife Service to complete its plan to protect the northern long-eared bat, a species found primarily in the eastern and midwestern United States. Opposition to the bat’s protection under the Endangered Species Act—from timber, mining and energy industries as well as several state natural-resource agency officials—prompted the Fish and Wildlife Service to postpone a final decision on protecting the bat until spring 2015.
Date created: August 28, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Today, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published a new regulation that weakens the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) by no longer penalizing individuals and corporations for the “incidental” killing of birds protected under the law. This codifies a 2017 policy reversing the agency’s decades-long interpretation that the MBTA prohibits the incidental killing of migratory birds. This regulation was published despite a federal district court ruling in August that the 2017 policy was an unlawful interpretation of the MBTA.
Date created: January 7, 2021
Last updated: May 2, 2022
A coalition of animal welfare and conservation groups has launched a new online ad campaign to coincide with the 2015 Seafood Exposition Global and Seafood Processing Global convention in Brussels this week, advising consumers and major seafood buyers to be aware of fish “tainted by the blood of whales.”
Date created: April 21, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Aquaculture refers to the farming of aquatic organisms, including finfish, crustaceans, mollusks, plants, and algae for human use. It has been practiced by cultures around the globe for millennia.
Date created: June 24, 2024
Last updated: September 24, 2024
Date created: June 8, 2009
Last updated: January 16, 2020
An investigation into a Maine salmon hatchery owned and operated by one of the largest seafood companies in the world, Cooke Aquaculture, has provided a behind-the-scenes look into the horrors of fish farming.
Date created: January 2, 2020
Last updated: April 17, 2024
A new study published in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences has shown that bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) recognize themselves in photographs (Kohda et al., 2023).
Date created: April 3, 2023
Last updated: April 7, 2023
Researchers from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel recently put the notion that fish only have a three-second memory span to the test.
Date created: June 8, 2009
Last updated: January 16, 2020
The oceans are teeming with unique and awe-inspiring creatures. However, harmful and unsustainable fishing operations pose a serious threat to the ocean’s biodiversity.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: June 25, 2024
Despite strong public opposition, and no documented demand, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appears to be drawing closer to approving the first food product from a genetically engineered (GE) animal.
Date created: May 21, 2013
Last updated: April 24, 2024
This week marks the five-year anniversary of an Idaho teen nearly being fatally poisoned by an M-44, commonly known as a “cyanide bomb.”
Date created: March 16, 2022
Last updated: January 18, 2024
Florida’s Everglades region has a rather big problem: Burmese pythons, one of the world’s largest snakes, are having a devastating effect on the ecosystem. As this non-native species—released into the wild accidentally or intentionally by pet owners—thrives and multiplies, it has proven nearly impossible for wildlife officials to rein in the population.
Date created: February 19, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
The legal standards of the housing, care, handling and treatment of nonhuman primates are formulated in the Animal Welfare Regulations [Regulations] which are enforced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA, 2002). Many of these standards are progressive, but there are a flaws that make their translation into animal welfare benefits problematic.
Date created: May 26, 2016
Last updated: October 30, 2020
The critically endangered California condor remains a highly publicized symbol of wildlife conservation. From a global population of just 27 captive adults in 1987, ex situ breeding produced a sufficient number of individuals to commence reintroduction of young birds into the skies of southern California in 1992.
Date created: July 6, 2016
Last updated: January 15, 2020
When Rebecca Heisman worked for the American Ornithological Society, her job involved reading “cutting-edge migration research” and publicizing it in a digestible way for the public. She sought to provide readers with the answer to a seemingly simple question: Where do the birds go? That work formed the beginnings of Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration—an educational, enlightening, and whimsical story of avian migration discovery.
Date created: August 30, 2023
Last updated: April 17, 2024
