Press Releases

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...

Forcing Wild Horses to Undergo Ovariectomies is Animal Abuse

Friday, August 03, 2018
Earlier this week, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) voiced their opposition to the Bureau of Land Management’s barbaric proposal to surgically sterilize wild horses using an experimental and...

AWI Applauds Removal of Anti-ESA Provisions from Defense Bill

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds the members of Congress who successfully worked to remove anti-wildlife riders from the Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The version of this bill that passed the...

Shasta County Suspends Contract with Wildlife-Killing Agency

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Responding to legal pressure from a coalition of animal protection and conservation groups, Shasta County officials have announced that the county will suspend its contract with the notorious federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services.

Hybrid Blue-Fin Whale is Still Protected

Thursday, July 19, 2018
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) takes exception to comments included in recent media reports characterizing hybrid whales as neither important nor protected under law. Although “Whale 22”—the whale killed last week by Icelandic whaling company...