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USDA’s Controversial Wildlife Services Refuses to Help Endangered Ocelot
Press ReleaseSeptember 3, 2014Terrestrial WildlifeToday, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and WildEarth Guardians (Guardians), represented by the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC), notified the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services program of their intent...
Fish and Wildlife Service Urged to Speed Protection for Bat Devastated by White-nose Fungal Epidemic
Press ReleaseAugust 28, 2014Terrestrial WildlifeTwo dozen conservation and animal-welfare groups sent a letter today urging the US Fish and Wildlife Service to complete its plan to protect the northern long-eared bat, a species found primarily in...
Animal Welfare Institute Response to Latest SeaWorld Press Release
Press ReleaseAugust 15, 2014Marine WildlifeThe proposed expansions of the orca enclosures, while a small improvement from the existing tanks, are nonetheless inadequate to meet the welfare needs of these animals due to their size,...
Effort to Gain Stronger Protection for Russian Belugas Moves Forward
Press ReleaseAugust 1, 2014Marine WildlifeToday the National Marine Fisheries Service announced a positive 60-day finding on a petition to designate the Sakhalin Bay-Amur River beluga whale population in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia, as...
Senate Rejects Harmful Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act
Press ReleaseJuly 11, 2014Marine WildlifeOn July 10, the Senate failed to secure the required 60 votes for passage of the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act. This bill, opposed by the Animal Welfare Institute and countless other...
AWI Calls Attention to Animal Cruelty and At-Risk Youth at National Judges Conference
Press ReleaseJuly 9, 2014Companion AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is taking part next week in the 77th Annual Conference of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) to call attention to how...
Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Puts Contract Renewal with Wildlife Services on Hold
Press ReleaseJuly 2, 2014Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeOne day after a broad coalition of national animal and conservation groups urged the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors to terminate its contract with the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife...
Library of Congress Event Unveils Graphic Novel on Grim Reality of Ivory Trade
Press ReleaseJune 24, 2014Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress hosted a ceremony this afternoon at the Library’s famed...
Conservation Groups Condemn Resumption of Iceland’s Brutal Hunt of Endangered Whales
Press ReleaseJune 17, 2014Marine WildlifeConservation groups are calling on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and its member governments to condemn Iceland’s commercial whale hunt following confirmation that the Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf has...
Europe: An Open market for the Ivory Trade?
Press ReleaseJune 2, 2014Terrestrial WildlifeOn the eve of inter-governmental meetings in Brussels and Geneva in June and July to debate the fate of elephants, a group of conservation organisations requests all EU governments to...