Help Orphaned, Injured Bats and Support Vital Conservation Work This Bat Week
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
As Bat Week kicks off October 24, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is hosting its first-ever bat-tacular fundraiser to help organizations operating bat rescues, sanctuaries, and educational outreach programs promote and protect these vanishing mammals.
Amazon Faces Pressure Over Sale of Products Made from Donkey-Hide Gelatin
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Animal welfare advocates representing millions of people around the world gathered at Amazon HQ2 to hand-deliver over 370,000 petition signatures demanding that Amazon ban the sale of ejiao, a gelatin made from donkey hides that...
“A Voice for Animals” Essay Contest Winners Channel Grassroots Advocacy to Benefit Animals in Need
Thursday, September 19, 2024
From exploring the impact of the critically endangered golden coin turtle on Hong Kong’s ecological balance and cultural identity, to spreading awareness about the mental health of companion animals to help prevent abuse, participants in...
Pork Industry’s Challenge to Sprinkler Requirement Fails
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased that the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards Council has rejected an appeal filed by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and other national animal agriculture groups that...
New York Urged to Protect Donkeys from Brutal Ejiao Trade
Thursday, September 05, 2024
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and a dozen other animal protection groups and equine rescues urged New York Attorney General Letitia James to crack down on the sale of ejiao (donkey-hide gelatin) to comply...
USDA’s Revised Food Label Guidelines Insufficient to Protect Consumers, Animals
Thursday, August 29, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is extremely disappointed by the revised meat and poultry guidelines released yesterday by the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
Wild Horse and Conservation Groups File Notice of Appeal to Challenge Court Decision Allowing Largest-Ever Eradication of Wild Horses
Friday, August 16, 2024
Today, a coalition of wild horse advocates, conservationists, and academics filed a notice of appeal with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a lower court decision greenlighting a Bureau of Land Management...
Chimp Crazy Docuseries Highlights Urgent Need for Federal Ban on Pet Primates
Friday, August 09, 2024
"Chimp Crazy,” the four-part docuseries premiering August 18 on HBO Max, aims to expose the dangerous and cruel trade in primates as pets that has destroyed lives — both human and nonhuman — across the...
Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Marine Mammals from Foreign Fishing Gear, Enforce Seafood Import Bans
Thursday, August 08, 2024
Conservation and animal protection groups sued several federal officials and departments today in the US Court of International Trade over their failure to implement the import provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).
Congress Urged Not to Use Taxpayer Money to Prop Up Dangerous Mink Farms
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), joined by 46 public health scientists, veterinarians, animal welfare and conservation organizations, and other experts in their respective fields, delivered a letter to leaders of the Agriculture Committees in...
UNESCO Keeps Mexico Vaquita Habitat on World Heritage 'In Danger' List
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee renewed its call today for urgent action to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in Mexico.
House Appropriations Bill Sacrifices Imperiled Species in Favor of Politicking
Monday, July 22, 2024
The US House of Representatives is set to vote this week on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 8998), a bill that severely slashes conservation funding for the coming fiscal year and...
AWI Grants Support Humane Strategies to Manage Human-Wildlife Conflicts
Monday, July 08, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the nine recipients of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award who are developing humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts and less intrusive methods to study wildlife.
New Research: Weak Enforcement of State Farmed Animal Welfare Laws Continues
Tuesday, July 02, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released a new report today that documents how state-level farmed animal welfare laws continue to be minimally enforced, even though such laws could substantially improve the lives of many of...
USMCA Council to Investigate Mexico’s Failure to Protect the Vaquita
Thursday, June 27, 2024
After a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) voted unanimously yesterday to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Mexico has not enforced its own fishing and wildlife...
BLM Gallops Ahead With Wild Horse Eradication Plan Amid Ongoing Litigation
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Last week, Eubanks & Associates, on behalf of petitioners the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC), Western Watersheds Project (WWP), and others, notified the US District Court of Wyoming that the Bureau...
New Survey: No More Than Eight Vaquita Remain
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Only six to eight critically endangered vaquita may remain on the planet, the Mexican government announced last week in reporting the results of a new survey.
Bill Introduced to Require Data Collection Linking Animal Cruelty and Child Abuse
Friday, June 14, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Child and Animal Abuse Detection and Reporting Act (H.R. 8733), reintroduced yesterday by Reps. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH) and Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ).
NOAA Greenlights Gray Whale Hunt for Makah Tribe
Friday, June 14, 2024
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...
New Analysis: Troubling Levels of Forever Chemicals Found in Norwegian Whale Meat
Thursday, June 13, 2024
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and other animal protection and conservation organizations are calling on the Norwegian government to expand testing of all whale meat sold for human consumption and update health advisories, after a...