Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
US Spending Package Delivers Wins for Animals
Farmed Animals, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeNarrowly averting a government shutdown, Congress adopted a $460 billion spending package in March that included multiple wins for animals. Among them: prohibiting the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services...
Jane Goodall at 90
Terrestrial WildlifeIn celebration of Dr. Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday in April 2024, Drs. Marc Bekoff and Koen Margodt encouraged her friends, family, and colleagues to pen 90 tributes to the esteemed primatologist...
House Bill Would Ban Wildlife Killing Contests on Public Lands
Press ReleaseMay 22, 2024Terrestrial WildlifeToday, more than 14 members of the US House of Representatives introduced legislation that would prohibit organizing, sponsoring, conducting, or participating in wildlife killing contests on more than 500 million...
Captive Primate Safety Act Would End the Cruel and Dangerous Primate Pet Trade (2024)
Press ReleaseMay 1, 2024Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses yesterday’s reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in the United States. Nonhuman...
BLM’s Bumbling Efforts on Birth Control
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeAWI worked with Reps. Dina Titus (D-NV) and Steve Cohen (D-TN)—two stalwart champions for equine welfare—to denounce the Bureau of Land Management’s reckless plan to round up approximately 20,000 wild...
Biden Administration Restores NEPA Regulations Critical to Battle Against Climate Change
Press ReleaseApril 30, 2024Terrestrial WildlifeThe White House Council on Environmental Quality released today its final phase II rule updating regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), our country’s basic charter for the protection of the...
USFWS Increases African Elephant Protections, But Misses Crucial Opportunities
Press ReleaseApril 1, 2024Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for releasing a final rule today that provides additional Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled African elephants. However, AWI...
ProTECT Act Would Ban Trophy Imports & Domestic Sport Hunting of At-Risk Species
Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2024Terrestrial WildlifeThe Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies Act (ProTECT Act) was reintroduced yesterday, and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) for...
Good Money After Bad: Primate Research Centers Seek Funds to Expand While Failing on Animal Welfare
Animals in Laboratories, Terrestrial WildlifeIn the early 1960s, the federal government established a network of National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) to promote biomedical research on primates. Funded through the National Institutes of Health, seven...
Massive Monkey Breeding Facility Planned in Georgia
Animals in Laboratories, Terrestrial WildlifeA 200-acre breeding “megafacility” is planned in Bainbridge, Georgia, to provide monkeys for biomedical research. At peak capacity, it would hold 30,000 long-tailed macaques—at least triple the number currently housed...