AWI Quarterly -- Summer 2007
About the Cover: The majestic humpback, shown breaching in Alaskan waters (photo by John Hyde), is one of many whale species whose protections were at stake at this year’s International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Greenland’s Native population sought permission to kill humpbacks for subsistence purposes, and fortunately, the request was denied on the final day of the meeting. However, the country did receive approval to kill additional minke whales and to add bowhead whales to its list of targets.
Despite over two decades of a ban on commercial whaling, many whale species have not yet recovered from the dramatic losses that resulted from brutal hunts of the past. Aboriginal populations and pro-whaling countries have been able to sidestep the moratorium, further hindering the animals’ recovery. The Animal Welfare Institute is pressing the US government to stand by its conservation-minded position on behalf of the whales, and to not make compromises.
Animals in the Oceans
- Fisheries Subsidies at Stake: US Proposes Cuts
- Protection for Cook Inlet Belugas?
- "Dolphin Safe" Label Remains Intact
- Pact Reached to Curb Bottom Trawling
- Scientists Shed Light on South Korea’s Whaling Secret
- Whales Prevail at IWC
- Drilling Debate: The world’s most endangered whale species may face a new threat
- The Sociable Orcas of Kamchatka and the Russian Students Who Care for Them, by the Far East Russia Orca Project
Animals in the Wild
- Disappearing Act: Where have North America’s honeybees gone?
- CITES 2007: Call of the Wild Goes Unanswered
- Beijing Olympics 2008 - Part 3: The Deadly Fur Trade in China
Government Affairs
- Damaging Dams: Can salmon runs be restored on the Pacific Coast without dam removal?
- Brutal Leghold Traps Challenged
- US Court of Appeals Lets Illinois Plant Resume Horse Slaughter for Now
- Provision Would Put Local Authority in Jeopard
In Memoriam
- Breaking the Silence: AWI looks back on Rachel Carson’s unprecedented environmental revolution, by John Gleiber
Animals in Laboratories
Humane Education
Reviews
- Just for Elephants
- Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs -- AWI Publication
- Tyger! Tyger!