sandhill crane taking flight from wetland

Volume 74 Issue 1

Spring 2025

In this Issue

Learn about the current unprecedented political attacks on bedrock animal protection and conservation laws and what animal activists can do to help. AWI and allies achieve a major legal victory to help reduce marine mammal deaths in commercial fishing gear. AWI pushes for more humane, effective ways to address bird flu in industrial egg and poultry operations. A look at the profound effects a surging demand for monkeys has had on the animal research landscape. AWI children’s books boost humane education efforts in Puerto Rico.

About the Cover

A sandhill crane prepares to take flight from a frozen lake in New Mexico. Sandhill cranes are among more than 1,100 birds protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. This venerable statute is among nine bedrock conservation and animal protection laws—originally enacted with strong bipartisan support—that the Trump administration and congressional leadership have taken extraordinary steps to erode or obliterate this year. Read more on the vital importance of these laws and the threats they face—and why animal advocates of all stripes must rally to defend them.

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