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Iceland Shipment to Japan Could Contain Meat from Rare Hybrid Whales
Press ReleaseNovember 15, 2018Marine WildlifeConservation and animal protection organizations are calling on the Japanese government to prove that a shipment of Icelandic whale products that arrived in Ishinomaki, Japan, yesterday does not include illegally...
25 Whale Biologists Urge Russia to Stop Capturing Wild Orcas
Press ReleaseNovember 15, 2018Marine WildlifeThis week, a group of prominent whale and dolphin biologists from across the globe, including Dr. Naomi Rose of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), sent a letter urging a Russian federal...
AWI Sues USDA Over Weak Label Requirements for Animal Food Products
Press ReleaseNovember 14, 2018Farmed AnimalsToday, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) sued the US Department of Agriculture for its unreasonable delay in responding to a 2014 AWI petition, which asked the agency to require independent certification of certain...
BLM Drops Planned Sterilization Experiments on Oregon’s Wild Mares
Press ReleaseNovember 7, 2018EquinesToday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it will drop proposed sterilization experiments on wild horses in Oregon, just days after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop...
Court Stops US Fish & Wildlife Service from Jeopardizing Red Wolf Survival
Press ReleaseNovember 5, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeToday, a federal judge issued an order declaring that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) violated the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in its rollback of protections...
Federal Judge Stops BLM from Conducting Inhumane Horse Sterilization Experiments
Press ReleaseNovember 2, 2018EquinesUS District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman today issued a preliminary injunction to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from proceeding with controversial experiments to surgically remove the ovaries...
Canada Urged to Expand Fisheries Closures to Save North Atlantic Right Whale
Press ReleaseNovember 1, 2018Marine WildlifeWildlife 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...
Analysis: Public Overwhelmingly Opposes Feds’ Plan to Nearly Wipe Out Wild Red Wolves in North Carolina
Press ReleaseNovember 1, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeThe 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...
NJ Could Become First State to Ban Multiple Exotic Animals in Circus Acts
Press ReleaseOctober 30, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeThe 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...
Barn Fire Report Documents 2.7 million+ Farm Animal Deaths
Press ReleaseOctober 3, 2018Farmed AnimalsToday, 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...