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AWI Urges Department of Interior to Halt Plan to Weaken Migratory Bird Protections
Press ReleaseJanuary 11, 2018Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) sent a letter to Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke today requesting that the Department of Interior (DOI) halt its plan to eliminate certain protections for...
Lawsuit Seeks to Uncover Why Government Is Allowing SeaWorld to Hide Orca Necropsies
Press ReleaseJanuary 10, 2018Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) filed a lawsuit this week against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) related to the agencies’ refusal to...
Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration’s Failure to Act to Save Vanishing Porpoises
Press ReleaseDecember 21, 2017Marine WildlifeConservation groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today for failing to respond to their emergency request to ban certain seafood imports from Mexico’s Gulf of California in order...
New Report Highlights Valuable Ecological Services Provided by Whales
Press ReleaseDecember 19, 2017Marine WildlifeA new report, released to the public today, reveals the enormous ecological benefits that whales and other cetaceans provide to the environment. The report is the product of a workshop, conducted...
Over 82,000 Say “No” to Slaughtering Chickens Even Faster
Press ReleaseDecember 13, 2017Farmed AnimalsA coalition of animal welfare, consumer safety, and worker rights organizations announced today that more than 82,000 concerned members of the public, workers and allies have raised their voices against...
Lawsuit Targets Fire Island National Seashore Park’s Lethal Deer Management Plan
Press ReleaseNovember 29, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute and Wildlife Preserves, Inc. filed a lawsuit today against K. Christopher Soller, superintendent of Fire Island National Seashore (FINS), and the National Park Service (NPS). The complaint alleges...
Japan Receives Pass for Illegal Whale Meat Trade at CITES Standing Committee Meeting
Press ReleaseNovember 28, 2017Marine WildlifeThe Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) missed an opportunity this week to put an end to Japan’s massive...
Legal Notice Pushes US to Embargo Mexican Seafood Caught with Vaquita Porpoise-Killing Nets
Press ReleaseNovember 21, 2017Marine WildlifeConservation groups filed a legal notice today pressing the US government to ban seafood caught from Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California in an effort to save the last remaining vaquita...
AWI Urges Trump, Zinke to Permanently Restore Ban on African Elephant Trophy Imports
Press ReleaseNovember 21, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeIn a letter issued today to President Donald Trump and Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) president Cathy Liss applauded the President’s November 17 decision to halt the import...
Miranda Cosgrove Joins Science, Business Leaders in Washington to Defend Marine Mammal Protection Act
Press ReleaseNovember 16, 2017Marine WildlifeActress and activist Miranda Cosgrove late yesterday joined approximately 50 science and business leaders from across the country in Washington, DC to urge members of Congress to defend the Marine Mammal...