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The fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills finalized in December included a number of victories for animals: On the marine side, $3 million was allocated for research and monitoring of the gravely imperiled North Atlantic right whale, and funding w

Congress has made little progress on finalizing fiscal year 2022 spending bills—an unfortunate circumstance given that many of them include important provisions that would benefit animals.

Congress finally passed an “omnibus” funding measure for the remainder of the current fiscal year.

In a large enclosed yard in a small town in southern Nepal, a man stands over a young water buffalo, a heavy sword held high in both hands.

With the advent of the Internet and the online sale of all measure of goods, it was inevitable that animals also would be sold over the web. 

A recent retraction of a paper describing a study involving squirrel monkeys at the now-closed New England National Primate Research Center (NENPRC) shows once again that poor animal welfare leads to poor science.

Every year, more than 10,000 animals are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in military training exercises that purportedly prepare soldiers for treating trauma on the battlefield. Although more advanced military training facilities have replaced animal victims with human-like simulators that “breathe,” “bleed” and “die” in a manner that more accurately mimics human trauma, horrific procedures are still used at 17 military training bases and four private contract facilities across the country.

On March 11, an earthquake and subsequent tsunami destroyed entire communities on the coast of northeastern Japan, killing over 15,000 people.

The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was the first federal law in the US regulating animals in research. The AWA applies to animal carriers, handlers, dealers, breeders, and exhibitors in addition to research laboratories, and sets minimum standards of care that must be provided for animals - including housing, handling, sanitation, food, water, veterinary care and protection from weather extremes.

Many animal protection advocates were glued to their televisions this year during the Oscar Awards.

AWI, along with several other animal advocacy groups, filed a rulemaking petition with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) under the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act to prevent the slaughter of non-ambulatory disabled (a.k.a. downer) pigs.