Animal Welfare Institute3 天
AWI Mourns Congressman Raúl Grijalva, an Exceptional Champion for Animals
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a staunch advocate for animals and the environment who dedicated half a century to public ...
Animal Welfare Institute3 天
Macaques Maintain Red List “Endangered” Status for Now
In June, a committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that long-tailed macaques (LTMs) will continue to be classified as “endangered” on the IUCN Red List of ...
Animal Welfare Institute4 天
Illinois Bill Requiring Disease Monitoring on Mink Farms Passes House Committee
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) celebrates today’s passage of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act (H.B. 2627) in the ...
Animal Welfare Institute10 天
USDA’s Bird Flu Strategy Inadequate to Control Disease and Prevent Inhumane Treatment
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) appreciates that the US Department of Agriculture has developed a revised strategy to address the staggering impacts of the current bird flu outbreak, yet the ...
Animal Welfare Institute10 天
ProTECT Act Would Protect Species Killed as Trophies
Act (H.R. 1934) was reintroduced yesterday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends Lieu for ...
Animal Welfare Institute12 天
Housing Insecurity with Pets
According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, the ...
Animal Welfare Institute14 天
Amid Legal Troubles, Monkey-Breeding Facility Backers Expand Operations
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)—the company ...
Animal Welfare Institute1 个月
Refinement Database
This database, created in 2000, is updated every four months with newly published scientific articles, books, and other publications related to improving or safeguarding the welfare of animals used in ...
Animal Welfare Institute2 个月
Cetacean Anti-Captivity Legislation and Laws
Orcas are too wide-ranging, too socially complex, and simply too large to cope with captivity in concrete tanks that are a tiny fraction the size of their natural home ranges. The compromised welfare ...
Animal Welfare Institute2 个月
Contact Information and Meeting Schedules for State Fish and Wildlife Departments and ...
Each state has a department of fish and wildlife and an associated commission or board that manages wildlife populations through hunting, fishing, habitat protection, and other methods. These ...
Animal Welfare Institute5 个月
Animal Welfare Institute Scholarship
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) seeks to improve the treatment of animals everywhere—in the laboratory, on the farm, in commerce, at home, and in the wild. Over the seven decades that AWI has been ...
Animal Welfare Institute9 个月
Inhumane Practices on Factory Farms
The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by ...