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The Appreciation and Protection of Animals

Newsletters

  • The Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly
    Our magazine dealing with current animal welfare issues, including treatment of captive animals in laboratories, commercial trade, factory farms, and trap lines, summaries of international meetings, laws and treaties affecting animals, articles by undercover investigators, and book reviews. Illustrated, one year subscription. $25.00
  • AWI's 50th Anniversary 2 Volume Compendium
    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. $45.00

    Articles

  • The Schweitzer Medalists
    The medal has been presented for outstanding contributions to animal welfare from 1955 on. Free
  • Since Silent Spring: Our debt to Albert Schweitzer and Rachel Carson
    A speech by Ann Cottrell Free. 17 pages, 1992. $1.00
  • What Dolphins are teaching us about Communications: A New Age Interview with James Robson by Jim Nollman
  • Childhood Cruelty Toward Animals Among Criminals and Noncriminals
    by Stephen Kellert and Allen Felthouse. 16-page study reprinted from Human Relations, Vol. 38, No. 12. Documents a link between childhood cruelty to animals and adult violent crimes, 1985. Free

Wildlife Under Threat

    Books

  • Managing for Extinction: Shortcomings of the Bureau of Land Management's National Wild Horse and Burro Program - Animal Welfare Institute, 2007.  $3.00
  • America's Last Wild Horses - Hope Ryden, 2005 (autographed, $20.00)
  • The Bird Business: A Study of the Commercial Cage Bird Trade
    by Greta Nilsson. Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. AWI, 121 pages, illustrated in black and white and color, 1981. One copy free to libraries. To others $1.00
  • Flight to Extinction: The Wild-Caught Bird Trade
    Report by the Environmental Investigation Agency and AWI. 27 pages, 31 color photographs, 1992. $2.00
  • The Endangered Species Handbook Online
    by Greta Nilsson. Contains projects for classrooms and science fairs.

Trapping

    Books

  • Facts About Furs
    by Greta Nilsson and others. 257 pages of information on the way furs are obtained throughout the world. 79 illustrations, 18 appendices, AWI revised edition, 1980. Table of Contents. $3.00
  • Alternative Traps
    by Tom Garrett. 61 pages. The role of spring powered killing traps in modern trapping, the role of cage and box traps in modern trapping, and the role of leg snares in modern trapping, AWI, 1999. Table of Contents. $3.00

    Articles, Handouts

  • Text of European Community Regulation regarding trapping and importation of furs. Free
  • Trapping Agony
    The views of Charles Darwin on the cruelty of the steel jaw leghold trap. Reprinted from Defenders magazine. Free
  • What is the Real Price of a Fur Coat?
    Cruel methods of obtaining wild furs. Society for Animal Protective Legislation, 4 pages. Free
  • Steel Jaw Traps Maim and Cripple Pets
    A compilation of articles on pets caught in steel jaw traps. Society for Animal Protective Legislation. Free
  • Ban Steel Jaw Leghold Traps
    8 1/2" by 14" poster illustrating the cruelty of steel jaw traps. Society for Animal Protective Legislation. Free
  • A Survey of Opinions of U.S. Citizens on the Use of the Steel Jaw Leghold Trap
    Conducted by Stephen Kellert, Ph.D., Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Includes a list of the 70 nations that have banned this trap. Free

Laboratory Animals

    Books

  • Variables, Refinement and Environmental Enrichment for Rodents and Rabbits kept in Research Institutions: Making Life Easier for Animals in Laboratories - One copy free to scientific institutions, veterinarians or architects. To others $3.00 (download )
  • Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals
    Illustrated manual for those planning to build, remodel or re-equip animal quarters. AWI, 9th edition, 2002. One copy free to scientific institutions, veterinarians or architects. To others $3.00
  • Environmental Enhancement for Caged Rhesus Macaques: A Photographic Documentation and Literature Review 
    by Viktor Reinhardt and Annie Reinhardt. Photos and guidelines for environmental enhancement including pair-housing, objects, training to avoid stress in caged rhesus macaques. AWI, 80 pages, 108 photos, 2001. One copy free to individuals at research facilities. To others $2.00.
  • The Animal Dealers
    Evidence of abuse of animals in the commercial trade 1952-1997. AWI, 395 pages, 1997. Table of Contents. One copy free to libraries, police and humane societies. To others $3.00.
  • The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique
    by W.M.S. Russell and R.L. Burch. A reprint of this classic book. UFAW, 238 pages, 1992. $25.00
  • Beyond the Laboratory Door
    Continues the above review, 1978-1984, and includes two new sections: "Unjustifiable by Any Standard" (citing USDA reports of laboratory inspections) and "Photographs of Experimental Animals," AWI, 266 pages, 1985. $1.00

    Articles

  • Mistreatment of Laboratory Animals Endangers Biomedical Research,
    Commentary by Christine Stevens, Nature, September 27, 1984. Free
  • Humane Consideration for Animal Models
    by Christine Stevens. Reprint of article from Animal Models of Thrombosis and Hemorrhagic Diseases. National Academy of Sciences, 8 pages, 1976. Free
  • Humane Perspectives
    by Christine Stevens. Reprint of article from The Future of Animals, Cells, Models, and Systems in Research, Development, Education, and Testing. National Academy of Sciences, 9 pages, 1977. Free
  • A Bibliography for Members of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (1997)
    Annotated. Includes books on alternatives to animals, laws and regulations, training courses, and the psychological well-being of primates.
  • Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals
    Text of the 1985 amendments to the Animal Welfare Act from The Congressional Record, Vol. 131, No. 175. Free
  • Use of Laboratory Animals in Research
    Dissent by committee member Christine Stevens to the report of the National Research Council Committee on the Use of Laboratory Animals in Biomedical and Behavioral Research. 2 pages, 1988. Free
  • Excerpts from: Housing, Care and Psychological Well-being of Captive and Laboratory Primates
    544 page book edited by Evalyn F. Segal, Noyes Publications. Contains quotations from 50 leading primatologists and other scientists. 3 pages, 1989. Free
  • The African polio vaccine- acquired immune deficiency syndrome connection
    by V. Reinhardt and A. Roberts. Medical Hypotheses, 1997, Vol. 48, 367-374. Free
  • Beyond "Adequate Vet Care" by Marjorie Anchel, PhD. reprinted from the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
  • Online articles on non-human primates

Farm Animals

  • Factory Farming: The Experiment that Failed
    Compilation of AWI Quarterly articles showing intensive rearing of calves, sows and hens and practical alternative methods. AWI, 86 pages, 1987. One copy free to libraries and humane societies. To others $2.00
  • How Astrid Lindgren Achieved Enactment of the 1988 Law Protecting Farm Animals in Sweden
    A translation of articles and letters published in Expressen, Stockholm, from 1985-1989. AWI, 27 pages. Free

Humane Education

  • Good Kind Lion
    For primary grades. UFAW, 4 pages, illustrated by Fougasse. Free
  • Kittens and Cats
    For primary grades. Humane Society of Huron Valley, 12 pages, with pictures suitable for coloring. Free
  • You and Your Dog
    For primary grades. Humane Society of Huron Valley, 16 pages, with pictures suitable for coloring. Free
  • First Aid and Care of Small Animals
    by Ernest P. Walker. Designed for use by teachers in primary and secondary schools. AWI, 52 pages, second edition. One copy free to teachers, librarians, humane societies and scout leaders. To others $1.00
  • Attitudes Towards Animals
    by Christine Stevens. Reprint of article from The American Biology Teacher, 3 pages. Free
  • Biology Students as Experimental Subjects
    by F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D. Reprint of article from The American Biology Teacher.
  • Live Organisms in High School Biology by F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D. Reprint of article from The American Biology Teacher.