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AWI is pleased to learn the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) was recently awarded a $150,000 grant through the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to study the impacts of environmental enrichment o

A firestorm has rained down on Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (SCBT)—long one of the world’s largest antibody producers—following a February 19, 2016, Nature article entitled “Thousands of goats and rabbits vanish from major biotech lab.”

From the earliest days of the organization, AWI has worked to foster better care and handling of animals in research facilities by encouraging laboratory personnel to provide the animals with comfortable housing with conspecifics; veterinary treat

In December, Louisiana finally received permits from the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with a massive project to divert Mississippi River water to Barataria Bay

V Reinhardt, C Liss and C Stevens

Animal Welfare Institute, P0 Box 3650, Washington, DC 20007, USA

Abstract

Amid almost unprecedented hype and media attention, the 62nd meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opened in Agadir, Morocco in June, with AWI’s Susan Millward in attendance and D.J. Schubert serving for the second year as the non-governmental representative on the U.S. delegation.

With very few exceptions, Africa’s Sahel—a strip of Africa that lies just south of the Sahara Desert—is a barren, devastated place populated largely by semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen who keep watch over far too many sickly, skinny cows.

Introduction

The following is an attempt to respond further to some of the points made by SeaWorld's Dr. Todd Robeck and Kristi Burtis during the Voice of San Diego Roundtable discussion on 5 June 2014 (watch at http://bit.ly/1nX6gar). This is not an attempt to raise all of the points that I could have raised during the discussion – it is a post hoc effort to address points that were raised but were not adequately discussed or addressed due to time constraints.

Sam Wasser’s life is bound by threads so small that a thousand of them braided together wouldn’t amount to a single eyelash. These threads are strands of deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA.

Wildlife advocate organizations, including the Animal Welfare Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Wildlife Alliance of Maine, are offering an $8,000 reward for information leading to convictions for the shootings of two protected Canada lynx last month in Maine, bringing the total reward offered to $19,000 from nonprofit, state and federal sources.

AWI staff traveled to Rhode Island in February to testify in favor of S 2192 and S 2032, bills to ban tail docking of cattle and to create an online animal abuser registry.

Richard Ellis—artist, author, conservationist, and great friend of AWI—died in May at the age of 86.

Uruguay’s national legislature has voted to establish a protected sanctuary for migrating right whales and other cetaceans. The final approval of the bill came via a unanimous (62–0) vote in the Chamber of Representatives on September 3.

The past three years have been devastating for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Only 400 individuals of the species are thought to remain.

No more than 360 North Atlantic right whales remain, including fewer than 70 reproductively active females.

North Atlantic right whales face grave danger in both the choppy waters off the coast and within the storm-tossed chambers of Congress.

In a surprise move, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced in January that it is closing down, effective May 2017, after 146 years in operation. In explaining the decision, Chief Operating Officer Juliette Feld of Feld Entertainment Inc.—owner of the circus for the past 50 years—cited ”a downward trend in attendance over 10 years” as the public’s taste in entertainment changed.