Compass Group, Sodexo, and Aramark, three of the largest food service companies, announced a commitment to purchase liquid eggs from cage-free hens for US sales.
Date created: June 1, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
At first, it was just an unnatural morning quiet that residents noticed. Then birds were found dead by the hundreds.
Date created: November 8, 2010
Last updated: January 18, 2024
Founder and President
Christine Stevens (1951 - 2002)
Directors
John W. Boyd, Jr.
Caroline A. Griffin, Esq., Secretary
Charles M. Jabbour, CPA, Treasurer
Mary Lee Jensvold, Ph.D.
Cathy Liss, President
Chris Miller, DVM
Cynthia Wilson, Chair/Vice President
Date created: October 4, 2011
Last updated: December 30, 2022
Macaques are biologically adapted to an arboreal or semi-arboreal life style. They spend much or most of the day and all of the night in elevated locations well off the ground as a safeguard against predators including humans. When they are on the ground during an alarming situation, they will inevitably flee upward on trees, roofs and other elevated, safe places (Lindburg, 1971; Roonwal & Mohnot, 1977; Chopra, Seth, & Seth, 1992).
Date created: May 26, 2016
Last updated: June 18, 2020
Conservation groups filed a legal notice today pressing the US government to ban seafood caught from Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California in an effort to save the last remaining vaquita porpoises.
Date created: November 21, 2017
Last updated: January 18, 2024
Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Center for Biological Diversity, Project Coyote, the Animal Welfare Institute, and WildEarth Guardians submitted a petition for rulemaking to the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) urging the agency to adopt a comprehensive regulatory framework to govern its Wildlife Services program.
Date created: November 21, 2023
Last updated: September 6, 2024
Animals in the laboratory need the legally required "empty space" to meet their basic spatial requirements for postural adjustment, but they also deserve functional structured space for species-typical locomotor behavior and dynamic interaction with their physical environment.
Date created: May 13, 2016
Last updated: October 30, 2020
Date created: January 27, 2021
Last updated: March 9, 2022
Today, 64 members of Congress sent a bipartisan letter to US Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and US Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen objecting to the Forest Service’s impending plan to sell federally protected wild horses without restrictions on slaughter.
Date created: May 3, 2019
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Vessel strikes continue to be one of the leading threats facing critically endangered North Atlantic right whales (NARW).
Date created: August 30, 2023
Last updated: April 17, 2024
A listing of important legislative initiatives advanced by the Animal Welfare Institute.
Date created: June 27, 2011
Last updated: August 26, 2024
US Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) has introduced legislation to phase out US mink farms within one year and establish a grant program to reimburse farmers for the full value of their operations.
Date created: June 5, 2023
Last updated: June 6, 2023
Although the coronavirus pandemic kept Congress more or less shuttered this spring, AWI nonetheless worked with legislators to get strong animal welfare positions on record.
Date created: June 17, 2020
Last updated: June 17, 2020
Shark finning is the inhumane practice of cutting off a shark’s fins, often while the shark is still alive, and discarding the body into the ocean. The fins are used in soup and other dishes. Growing concerns for shark populations ultimately led legislators in the United States to enact laws to restrict the practice of finning, as well as the possession of shark fins.
Date created: August 19, 2016
Last updated: April 13, 2023
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the reintroduction of the Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2014, by Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY). The bill, which prohibits the hauling of horses on livestock trailers containing one level on top of the other, has garnered strong support from the welfare, equine, veterinary and agriculture communities.
Date created: April 9, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses today’s reintroduction in Congress of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in the United States.
Date created: May 12, 2021
Last updated: January 18, 2024
Washington, DC—The Public Safety and Wildlife Protection Act was reintroduced last Friday in the House of Representatives by Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC).
Date created: October 18, 2021
Last updated: October 18, 2021
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), and Suzan DelBene (D-WA) for introducing the Strengthening Welfare in Marine Settings (SWIMS) Act today.
Date created: July 26, 2022
Last updated: August 25, 2022
Vessel collisions are one of the main threats facing critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, of which only an estimated 340 remain.
Date created: December 16, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
Twenty-nine state legislators, including 17 representing North Carolina, submitted a joint statement yesterday condemning a US Fish and Wildlife Service proposal that would decimate the population of red wolves in a designated recovery area of North Carolina. Currently, fewer than 30 red wolves remain in the wild.
Date created: July 31, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
The Northwest Atlantic subpopulation of leatherback turtles could soon lose important protections under the Endangered Species Act in response to a September 2017 petition filed by the Blue Water Fishermen’s Association.
Date created: June 29, 2018
Last updated: June 29, 2018
AWI now has free lesson plans available for two of our most sought-after books, A Dangerous Life and The Magic of Touch. The lesson plans were developed by AWI in cooperation with educator Nancy Kellum Brown.
Date created: September 3, 2020
Last updated: September 3, 2020
A common feature of captive environments is that they deprive individuals of agency—that is, they constrain individuals’ ability to make decisions and exercise control over their environment.
Date created: March 25, 2021
Last updated: March 25, 2021
The idea that animal play is important and worthwhile is gaining traction within the biomedical research community. Indeed, the PRIM&R’s 2019 IACUC Conference (the acronyms stand for “Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research” and “Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee”)—an annual gathering that brings together approximately 600 professionals from state and federal government, industry, and academia—included for the first time this year a session on the importance of play for animals in research.
Date created: October 11, 2019
Last updated: January 23, 2020
In addition to the AWI Quarterly and annual report, AWI publishes books, reports, and brochures on a variety of animal welfare issues. Most of our materials are provided free to those who can put them directly to use helping animals, and at cost for all others.
Date created: May 17, 2023
Last updated: May 22, 2023
