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Legislators Voice Opposition to Fish and Wildlife Service Plan Jeopardizing Red Wolf Survival
Press ReleaseJuly 31, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeTwenty-nine state legislators, including 17 representing North Carolina, submitted a joint statement yesterday condemning a US Fish and Wildlife Service proposal that would decimate the population of red wolves in a designated...
Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise
Press ReleaseJuly 26, 2018Marine WildlifeResponding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the US Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically...
AWI Applauds Removal of Anti-ESA Provisions from Defense Bill
Press ReleaseJuly 24, 2018Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe 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...
Shasta County Suspends Contract with Wildlife-Killing Agency
Press ReleaseJuly 24, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeResponding 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...
Animal Welfare Institute Opposes Administration’s Devastating Assault on ESA
Press ReleaseJuly 19, 2018Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute strongly opposes three proposed rules released today by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that would undermine vital sections of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)....
Hybrid Blue-Fin Whale is Still Protected
Press ReleaseJuly 19, 2018Marine WildlifeThe 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...
Nine New House Bills Continue All-Out Assault on Endangered Species Act
Press ReleaseJuly 13, 2018Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) strongly opposes a package of nine bills, 8 of which were introduced today by a coalition of Republican representatives, that would collectively demolish key aspects...
Advocates Rally to Pressure Mexico to Protect Vanishing Vaquita
Press ReleaseJuly 6, 2018Marine WildlifeConservation and animal protection organizations rallied outside the Mexican Embassy today to call on the Mexican government to take drastic action to save the fewer than 30 vaquita porpoises left...
New Senate Bill Undercuts Endangered Species Act
Press ReleaseJuly 3, 2018Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is expressing vehement opposition to draft legislation, released yesterday by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), entitled the Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2018. According to AWI,...
UNESCO Ignores Vaquita’s Imminent Extinction, Delays ‘In Danger’ Designation
Press ReleaseJune 28, 2018Marine WildlifeConservation and animal protection organizations are alarmed that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) today postponed an “in danger” listing for Mexico’s Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of...