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On June 26, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) embraced nearly all of the recommendations regarding chimpanzees in research contained in the report of the Working Group of the Council of Councils (see Winter 2013 AWI Quarterly).

Date created: August 23, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) strongly opposes a package of nine bills, 8 of which were introduced today by a coalition of Republican representatives, that would collectively demolish key aspects of the Endangered Species Act. These bills are reflective of the strongly anti-wildlife trend of the current Congress, from which at least 75 legislative attacks on this crucial conservation law have been launched.
Date created: July 12, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds the New Jersey Assembly Monday for passing Nosey’s Law (S1093), which would ban the use of wild and exotic animals for entertainment in traveling animal acts within the state. The vote was 71-3.
Date created: October 30, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Cetacean Society International (CSI), Earth Island Institute (EII), and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) lauded the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) today for its final designation of the Sakhalin Bay-Amur River population of beluga whales in Russia as depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).

Date created: October 27, 2016
Last updated: February 2, 2022

The United States has prohibited the landing and possession of thorny skates in U.S. waters since 2003. Despite this, their numbers have dropped precipitously, to a point alarmingly below the threshold needed to ensure the species’ survival.

Date created: February 24, 2012
Last updated: January 15, 2020

The Rice’s whale was initially listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 2019 as a subspecies—the Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whale—but was reclassified as a unique species in 2021.

Date created: December 15, 2023
Last updated: December 22, 2023

The following email discussion took place on the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum in February 2016. Submissions by Carey Allen, Evelyn Skoumbourdis, Jacqueline Schwartz, Jennie Lofgren, Jennifer Defosses, Kristina Carter, Leslie Jenkins, Lorraine Bell, Marcie Donnelly, Marloes Hentzen, Michele Cunneen, Reneé Gainer, Sarah Thurston, Stacie Havens, and Tom Ferrell.

Date created: March 17, 2017
Last updated: April 24, 2024

A Florida middle school teacher has been disciplined after taunting a 13-year-old student for choosing not to dissect a frog during science class.

Date created: October 3, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2020

Last November, California voters passed Proposition 12, which will end the extreme confinement of farm animals in the state.

Date created: April 4, 2019
Last updated: April 4, 2019

Researchers have found that goats develop their own “accents” as they grow older and move among social groups.

Date created: May 7, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020

According to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), between its peak in 2002 and the most recent survey in 2014, the use of the hormone recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) by the dairy industry declined by 36 percent.

Date created: September 5, 2017
Last updated: September 5, 2017

This study involved two monkeys that learned to play a computer game that gave them drops of juice when they won. The monkeys played voluntarily because they liked to gamble...

Date created: December 21, 2018
Last updated: December 21, 2018

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) isn’t meeting this year, but the whales themselves are getting no break from whalers. Despite a ban on the international trade in whale meat, Norway received 14 tons of whale products from Iceland in February.

Date created: August 23, 2013
Last updated: October 31, 2019
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is disappointed with yesterday’s decision by federal regulators to issue a waiver of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to the Makah Tribe of Washington state to hunt whales over the next decade.
Date created: June 14, 2024
Last updated: June 14, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and other animal and environmental protection groups applaud the Department of Commerce’s decision to prohibit Mystic Aquarium from breeding five captive-born beluga whales from Canada as part of an import permit issued Friday.
Date created: September 3, 2020
Last updated: January 18, 2024

After years of delay, NOAA Fisheries released a proposed rule in December 2020 to reduce the number of North Atlantic right whales killed by gear in northeast lobster and Jonah crab fisheries.

Date created: March 25, 2021
Last updated: April 17, 2024
Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced it will officially list Lolita, the lone orca at the Miami Seaquarium, as a member of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKWs).
Date created: February 4, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022

Almost every wildlife biologist has experienced the sinking feeling of finding an injured or dead animal in a live-trap.

Date created: August 11, 2009
Last updated: January 17, 2020
The total number of nonhuman primates in research in the United States was 71,921 in 2021 (the most recent year for which figures are available), according to the US Department of Agriculture. This figure does not include the 41,348 primates who were not assigned to research but were instead part of laboratories' breeding colonies. Primate species in research include rhesus macaques, long-tailed (a.k.a. crab-eating or cynomolgus) macaques, stump-tailed macaques, pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green monkeys, marmosets, baboons, spider monkeys, capuchin monkeys, titi monkeys, and others.
Date created: September 26, 2011
Last updated: August 7, 2024
Beneath the surface of Hawaii’s blue ocean waters, Wild Me and Hawaiian Hawksbill Conservation are using photographs and computer vision technology to help protect Hawaiian hawksbill sea turtles.
Date created: January 2, 2020
Last updated: March 31, 2023

Viable wolverine populations require the survival of reproductive females. Managing potentially disruptive human activity where breeding females live is of paramount importance for successful reproduction and ultimately viable populations.

Date created: March 6, 2015
Last updated: March 31, 2023

By Dr. Elizabeth Burgess and Dr. Rosalind Rolland, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium

Date created: December 20, 2018
Last updated: March 31, 2023

A study by Alyson Andreasen et al., published in the Journal of Wildlife Management earlier this year, examined the fate of cougars caught in leghold traps and lethal snares set for other furbearers, particularly bobcats.

Date created: September 14, 2018
Last updated: September 18, 2018
Private landowners in the five counties of North Carolina where red wolves roam signed a petition, sent today to U.S Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe, expressing their support for keeping endangered red wolves on their land.
Date created: January 26, 2016
Last updated: January 17, 2024

The North Carolina legislature really doesn’t care to know about animal abuse on farms. In May, it sent an ag-gag measure (HB 405) to Governor McCrory for his signature, but at the urging of thousands of animal advocates, the governor vetoed it.

Date created: September 18, 2015
Last updated: April 24, 2024