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AWI Commends Animal Protection Measures in FY2016 Omnibus Spending Bill
Press ReleaseDecember 16, 2015All ProgramsTwo and a half months after the start of the 2016 fiscal year and after several short-term extensions, the US Congress released early this morning the federal budget funding the...
USFWS Warned of Lawsuit for Failing to Protect World’s Smallest Sloth
Press ReleaseDecember 10, 2015Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) notified the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) today of its intent to sue the agency for failing to make a timely 12-month finding, as required by...
China’s Captive Cetacean Industry Exposed in Unprecedented Report
Press ReleaseDecember 8, 2015Marine WildlifeThe China Cetacean Alliance (CCA), a coalition of international and Chinese animal welfare organizations officially launched at a media event in Beijing last week, issued an unprecedented report on the...
Conservation Organizations Protest Japan’s Security Council Seat
Press ReleaseDecember 7, 2015Marine WildlifeResponding to the United Nations’ recent decision to award Japan a much coveted non-permanent seat on the Security Council, 65 conservation and animal protection organizations opposed to Japan’s commercial whaling...
Conservation Groups Launch Campaign to Save World’s Only Red Wolves
Press ReleaseNovember 19, 2015Terrestrial WildlifeConservation organizations launched an online campaign this week entitled “The Truth about Red Wolves,” aimed at building support for the dwindling population of the world’s only wild red wolves in...
Conservation Groups Call for Veto of Extinction Riders
Press ReleaseNovember 17, 2015Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeMore than 150 conservation groups have signed a letter to President Obama asking him to oppose all policy “riders” that would undermine the Endangered Species Act during negotiations on final...
Conservation Groups Take US Fish & Wildlife Service to Court for Failures to Protect the World’s Only Wild Red Wolves
Press ReleaseNovember 13, 2015Terrestrial WildlifeConservation groups filed a complaint late yesterday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina against the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for its failure...
Navy Rethinks Pacific Training that Endangers Whales, Dolphins and Other Marine Life
Press ReleaseNovember 12, 2015Marine WildlifeThe US Navy today said it plans to prepare a new environmental impact statement for training and testing exercises in the Pacific Ocean from December 2018 onward, including the use...
Rep. Schiff to Introduce ORCA Act to Phase Out Display of Captive Killer Whales
Press ReleaseNovember 6, 2015Marine WildlifeAt a press conference on Friday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced that he will introduce the Orca Responsibility and Care Advancement (ORCA) Act. This landmark legislation would phase out the captivity...
Twenty-Five Senators Sign Letter Urging President Obama to Protect Endangered Species
Press ReleaseNovember 5, 2015Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeA quarter of the US Senate signed a letter to President Obama urging him to veto any spending bills that include politically motivated riders targeting endangered and threatened species. As...