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New Online Campaign Discourages Arizonans from Visiting Dolphin Attractions
Press ReleaseAugust 16, 2017Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the Animal Defense League of Arizona (ADLA) this week launched a digital campaign aimed at discouraging the public from buying tickets to attractions that exploit captive dolphins. Through...
Court to Monterey County: Animal-Killing Contract with Wildlife Services Violates State Law
Press ReleaseAugust 14, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeThe California Superior Court ruled last week that Monterey County’s renewal of its contract with the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program to kill predators and other native wildlife violated the...
AWI Urges Defunding, Closure of USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center Following Appalling New Inspection
Press ReleaseAugust 11, 2017Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is calling on Congress to permanently revoke all research funding of the USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Clay Center, Nebraska. The request follows a July...
International Workshop Reveals Ecological, Economic Benefits of Cetaceans
Press ReleaseJuly 26, 2017Marine WildlifeA workshop held today at this week’s International Congress of the Society for Conservation Biology (ICCB 2017) revealed that the ecological services that cetaceans (whales and dolphins) provide to the planet may...
Animal Welfare Groups Warn USDA Pig Slaughter Rule Will Risk Animal Welfare
Press ReleaseJuly 25, 2017Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) condemn the USDA’s imminent plan to allow pig slaughterhouses to kill pigs at...
International Wildlife Journal Features Two Articles Authored by AWI Experts
Press ReleaseJuly 12, 2017Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeTwo journal articles authored by experts from the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) were recently featured in the newly released issue of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy (Volume 20, Issue 1, 2017)....
Organizations Announce 2017 A Voice for Animals Contest Prize Winners
Press ReleaseJuly 11, 2017All ProgramsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), the Humane Education Network (HEN) and the Palo Alto Humane Society officially announced today the winners of the 2017 A Voice for Animals contest. The annual contest provides high school students aged...
Advocates Rally Outside Mexican Embassy for Vanishing Vaquita Porpoise
Press ReleaseJuly 6, 2017Marine WildlifeLocal conservation 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...
World Heritage Committee Gives Mexico One Year to Improve Protections for Critically Endangered Vaquita or Face “In Danger” Designation
Press ReleaseJuly 5, 2017Marine WildlifeThe UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) today gave Mexico one year to improve protections for the only remaining home of the critically endangered vaquita or face an “in danger” designation...
US Agency Proposes Listing Taiwanese Humpback Dolphin as Endangered
Press ReleaseJune 26, 2017Marine WildlifeThe National Marine Fisheries Service today proposed listing the Taiwanese humpback dolphin (also known as the Taiwanese white dolphin), Sousa chinensis taiwanensis, as endangered, determining that the subspecies has a high...