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Animal Protection Groups Applaud Senate Bill to Ban Horse Slaughter
Press ReleaseJune 27, 2019EquinesSens. Bob Menendez, (D-NJ), Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), Sheldon Whitehouse, (D-RI), and Susan Collins, (R-ME), introduced legislation today to permanently end the slaughter of American horses for human consumption in the...
Members of Congress Condemn Barbaric Surgical Sterilization Experiments on Wild Horses
Press ReleaseJune 24, 2019EquinesCongressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, led a bipartisan letter signed by 30 members of Congress to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt criticizing the Bureau of Land Management's...
Canada Prohibits the Captivity of Marine Mammals
Press ReleaseJune 24, 2019Marine WildlifeS-203, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, has received Royal Assent, making the historic legislation, which ends the public display of captive cetaceans, official Canadian law. After...
AWI Supports Bill to Prohibit the Use of Performing Exotic Animals
Press ReleaseMay 22, 2019Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) supports the reintroduction of the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA). Sponsored by Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and David Schweikert (R-AZ),...
AWI Supports Bipartisan Bill to Protect Children and Animals from Abuse
Press ReleaseMay 16, 2019Companion AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Child and Animal Abuse Detection and Reporting Act of 2019, introduced today by Representatives Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH) and John Katko (R-NY). This...
BLM to Proceed with Barbaric Sterilization of Wild Mares, Despite Outcry
Press ReleaseMay 14, 2019EquinesDespite multiple lawsuits, federal injunctions and overwhelming public opposition, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced last night that it is again moving ahead with barbaric experiments on captive wild mares. It will...
Legislators Decry Forest Service Plan to Condemn Wild Horses to Slaughter
Press ReleaseMay 6, 2019EquinesToday, 64 members of Congress sent a bipartisan letter to US Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and US Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen objecting to the Forest Service’s impending plan to...
AWI-Endorsed Legislation Advanced by House Committee to Aid North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery
Press ReleaseMay 1, 2019Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee for approving H.R. 1568, the SAVE Right Whales Act during their first committee markup of the...
AWI Endorses CECIL Act to Restrict Imports of Protected Species Killed for Sport
Press ReleaseApril 10, 2019Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is grateful for today’s reintroduction of the Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act (CECIL Act), named after the lion killed...
Government Erred in Deciding to Grant Waiver to Makah Tribe
Press ReleaseApril 5, 2019Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is alarmed that the federal government has proposed allowing the Makah tribe of Washington to kill gray whales again. Yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...