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Analysis: Public Overwhelmingly Opposes Feds’ Plan to Nearly Wipe Out Wild Red Wolves in North Carolina
Thursday, November 01, 2018
The proposal from the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to remove protections from the nation’s only wild population of endangered red wolves has been met with near-unanimous opposition from the public. Fully 99.9 percent...
Canada Urged to Expand Fisheries Closures to Save North Atlantic Right Whale
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Wildlife and animal protection groups submitted recommendations today urging Canada’s fishery management agency to continue to expand protections for critically imperiled North Atlantic right whales. Following an unprecedented 12 right whale deaths in Canadian waters...
NJ Could Become First State to Ban Multiple Exotic Animals in Circus Acts
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds the New Jersey Assembly Monday for passing Nosey’s Law (S1093), which would ban the use of wild and exotic animals for entertainment in traveling animal acts within the state...
Barn Fire Report Documents 2.7 million+ Farm Animal Deaths
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released a first-of-its-kind report highlighting the more than 2.7 million US farm animals who perished in potentially preventable barn fires from 2013 to 2017. The report, issued in advance...
CITES Censures Japan for Trading in Whale Products from an Endangered Species
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Conservation organizations today welcomed the news that Japan’s import and sale of sei whale products from its controversial “scientific” whaling program in the North Pacific has been censured as illegal by the global body entrusted...
Horse Advocates Seek Injunction to Block Trump Administration from Surgically Removing Ovaries of Wild Mares
Monday, October 01, 2018
A coalition of animal protection and wild horse advocacy groups filed a motion Friday for a preliminary injunction in US District Court in Oregon to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from performing risky...
House Committee to Vote on Removing Federal Protections for Gray Wolves
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is expressing strong opposition to the House Natural Resources Committee’s decision to hold a hearing and markup September 26 on a package of nine bills designed to undercut crucial conservation...
800,000+ Public Comments Submitted in Defense of Endangered Species Act
Monday, September 24, 2018
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and 16 other conservation groups submitted more than 500,000 public comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, bringing the total to well...
Lawsuit Filed to Stop Barbaric BLM Wild Horse Sterilization Experiments
Friday, September 21, 2018
Citing violations of the US Constitution and three federal laws, an alliance of wild horse protection and animal welfare advocates filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court in Portland against the Bureau of...
IWC Broadens Conservation Mandate, Rejects Japan’s Bid to Resume Commercial Whaling
Friday, September 14, 2018
As the International Whaling Commission meeting wrapped up this week, members voted on several key measures that will impact whales for years to come. Although the proposal for the creation of a South Atlantic Whale...
BLM Approves Surgical Sterilization Experiments on Oregon’s Wild Horses
Friday, September 14, 2018
Washington, DC —The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burns District Office in Oregon announced Wednesday night that it will begin controversial experiments to remove the ovaries of wild mares next month. The federal agency reached...
97 Legislators Voice Opposition to Anti-Wildlife Spending Bill Riders
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Ninety-seven legislators sent a letter yesterday urging House leadership to reject anti-wildlife riders in the final Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.
Congress to Decide Fate of America’s Wild Horses and Burros
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Today, the House and Senate Appropriations Committee Conferees will meet to decide the fate of America’s federally protected wild horse and burro herds. At issue is an amendment inserted by Congressman Chris Stewart (R-UT) in...
New Manual Helps Protect Ohio Domestic Violence Survivors and their Pets
Monday, September 10, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) unveiled a new publication entitled “Representing Domestic Violence Survivors with Pets in Ohio: A Manual for Domestic Violence Attorneys & Advocates Helping Survivors Obtain Protection Orders.” The manual is designed...
Japan Must be Stopped in its Push to Resume Commercial Whaling Worldwide
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
After spending more than three decades slaughtering whales in defiance of an international moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan is proposing a package of measures at an International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting next month that would...
Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary Sue USDA to Disclose Slaughterhouse Records
Thursday, August 23, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute and Farm Sanctuary sued the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for department records related to the treatment...
AWI Files Brief in Support of New York’s Ivory Restrictions
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Defending New York’s move to curtail the illegal ivory trade, AWI filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief earlier this month in support of a state law restricting trade in ivory and rhinoceros...
Fourth California County Suspends Contract with Federal Wildlife-killing Agency
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Responding to legal pressure from a coalition of animal-protection and conservation groups, Siskiyou County officials recently announced that the county has suspended its contract with the notorious federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services. The...
AWI Applauds Illinois for Restricting Ivory and Rhino Horn Sales
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds Governor Rauner of Illinois for signing a bill to restrict the sale of ivory and rhino horn within the state yesterday.
Report: USDA fails to protect birds who are neglected, abandoned during transport and at slaughterhouse
Thursday, August 09, 2018
In a letter sent today to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) urged the agency to protect poultry from mistreatment, citing more than 50 recent situations in which birds...