The Appreciation and Protection of Animals

The Animal Welfare Institute has been publishing an informational newsletter about animal welfare and wildlife conservation for fifty years. In celebration of our golden anniversary (1951-2001), we have compiled all 50 volumes of the AWI Information Report and AWI Quarterly into a bound, two-volume set, comprising almost 1,800 pages.

The first Information Report was published in December 1951 and was four legal-size typewritten pages on blue paper. It announced that "The Animal Welfare Institute has been established by a group of persons interested in the humane treatment of all animals." It included a discussion of the conditions found on visits to laboratories, medical research and the humane movement, and the ethics of animal experimentation. Fifty years later, the AWI Quarterly is a twenty page, full color magazine. The last issue of our first fifty years, published in the fall of 2000, discussed commercial whaling, dolphin and primate protection, wildlife in Vietnam, slaughterhouse conditions and cruelty to pigs in hog factories.

Available at cost price, $45, the set serves as a unique compendium of the history of AWI's battles for animals across the globe. For a historical retrospective on the progression of animal welfare issues between our first and fiftieth years, request a copy from AWI.