Is there something about the blood of a young organism that can improve the health of an older one? Three recent publications from Harvard and Stanford suggest there is such a factor. The notion of helping people who suffer the debilitating diseases common to old age has generated enormous public exposure.
Date created: August 22, 2014
Last updated: January 8, 2020
Snares are indiscriminate tools of torture used around the world to capture wild animals—primarily for food but also for trade in animal parts.
Date created: June 20, 2023
Last updated: June 26, 2023
Actress Ashley Bell’s first starring role was in a scary movie. For her directorial debut, she turns the camera around to address a real-life horror: the brutal captivity of Asian elephants. But her film, Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story, is more a hero’s tale than a horror flick. It profiles Sangduen “Lek” Chailert, the founder in 1995 of Elephant Nature Park, an elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand.
Date created: September 26, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Our breeding colony of Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) is distributed in three different rooms. The lighting force in two rooms was involuntarily only 110 Lux against 700 Lux in the control room.
Date created: April 27, 2016
Last updated: August 21, 2020
In the Northern Rocky Mountains, ranchers raising livestock on public lands often advocate the use of lethal control measures to protect their livestock and control large carnivores. While large carnivore attacks on livestock are far from the primary threat to livestock health, the perception of them as a malicious force on the landscape has put the return of these predators at risk. Federal and local governments in the United States and Canada have allowed lethal control to various degrees to ostensibly reduce the risks of attacks on livestock.
Date created: June 24, 2024
Last updated: June 28, 2024
Lyme disease is endemic to the northeastern and northcentral United States. In 2011, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control, there were a total of 24,346 confirmed cases of Lyme disease.
Date created: August 23, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
On September 11, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) revised its critical habitat designation for threatened Canada lynx, as well as its definition of the animal’s distinct population segment (DPS) protected by the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The move was considered a mixed bag by conservationists.
Date created: December 11, 2014
Last updated: December 4, 2019
In June, a committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that long-tailed macaques (LTMs) will continue to be classified as “endangered” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species while the organization awaits a
Date created: September 4, 2024
Last updated: September 13, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute commends Magna Entertainment Corp's (MEC) adoption of a policy directly aimed at ensuring horses stabled and raced at any of Magna's countless racetracks don't end up in slaughterhouses. MEC owns and operates racetracks across the entire United States.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
November 27 is Giving Tuesday—a perfect opportunity to pause during the holiday season and contribute to a worthy cause.
Date created: November 21, 2018
Last updated: November 21, 2018
Our work to protect animals would not be possible without the generous donations we receive each year. AWI is committed to using our donors’ contributions for the direct benefit of animals, with more than 90% of funds going toward program expenses.
Date created: October 19, 2011
Last updated: April 2, 2024
Click the link below to donate to the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) via PayPal. This will take you to the PayPal site where you can contribute using either your PayPal account or a credit card. (If you wish to make a donation using an international credit card, it is recommended that you do so via the PayPal site)
Date created: August 17, 2012
Last updated: April 23, 2019
The largest known population of leatherback turtles was discovered on the beaches of Gabon, West Africa, by an international team of scientists in May, Science Daily reports.
Date created: August 11, 2009
Last updated: January 17, 2020
On November 15, a coalition of nine environmental and animal protection groups, including AWI, hosted a Lobby Day and reception on Capitol Hill to celebrate—and defend—the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) on its 45th anniversary.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Most of the meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs sold in American grocery stores and restaurants come from animals raised under intensive conditions on “factory farms.” Animals on these operations suffer pain and distress as a result of extreme confinement, bodily mutilations without pain relief, and denial of the opportunity to behave normally. Consumers have the power to change this through the food choices we make every day. Farmers will produce, and retailers will sell, what shoppers demand. Seemingly small changes—like switching brands in favor of a more humanely raised product or consuming fewer animal-based foods—can make a big difference in the lives of farm animals.
Date created: June 27, 2011
Last updated: March 4, 2024
On Opening day of the 111th Congress, Rep. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) reintroduced the Shark Conservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 81). A similar measure to strengthen the pre-existing Shark Finning Prohibition Act was passed by the House of Representatives on a voice vote in July; however, the Senate was unable to take action on the bill before the session ended, necessitating its reintroduction in this Congress.
Date created: January 16, 2020
Last updated: May 27, 2021
Refinements for Rodents and Rabbits in Research Laboratories will be rolling off the presses soon.
Date created: September 4, 2024
Last updated: September 13, 2024
AWI’s Laboratory Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum (LAREF) is an online discussion forum where individuals working with animals in research share their ideas and experiences related to improving the welfare of animals under their care.
Date created: April 3, 2023
Last updated: April 7, 2023
In Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves, de Waal illuminates the continuity of emotions between humans and other animals with perfect examples of grief, humor, empathy, guilt, shame, pride, gratitude, and disgust. He describes emotional intelligence, which includes fairness, planning, and metacognition (knowing what you know or don’t know).
Date created: July 1, 2019
Last updated: January 15, 2020
Just days after a committee of the US House of Representatives tried to kill legislation aimed at curtailing commercial horse slaughter in the United States, a Mississippi man hauling 19 horses to a Texas slaughterhouse has been charged with animal cruelty involving horses in Arkansas.
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 2, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the Honorable Thomas Cooper of the Richland County Fifth Judicial Circuit for sentencing 28-year old Adan Gonzalez to three years in prison for throwing Lady, a 12-week-old boxer puppy, on the burning hot coals of a grill last October. Lady was treated for severe burns on over sixty percent of her body but died a few days later.
Date created: March 31, 2009
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Out of 337 manatee carcasses recovered in Florida last year, 101 were very young calves, compared to the 59 dead calves found in 2007.
Date created: January 16, 2020
Last updated: May 27, 2021
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has created a manatee refuge for all of Kings Bay, the site of the animal’s largest winter habitat in Florida.
Date created: February 7, 2011
Last updated: January 10, 2020
“Devilfish,” “old skin covering,” “many things under a rock”—octopus names are as varied and creative as the creatures themselves. As Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses reveals, these inquisitive, intelligent animals are capable of throwing things at each other, re-growing severed limbs, rapidly changing color to blend in with their surroundings, standing guard (in the case of some large males) over their communities, and displaying empathy—toward each other, and perhaps even humans.
Date created: August 30, 2023
Last updated: April 17, 2024
As reported in the Winter 2015 Quarterly, USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC), in Clay Center, Nebraska, has come under intense scrutiny after a January 19 article in The New York Times described indefensible acts that have taken place at MARC over the past several decades.
Date created: June 2, 2015
Last updated: April 24, 2024
