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Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Marine Mammals from Foreign Fishing Gear, Enforce Seafood Import Bans
Press ReleaseAugust 8, 2024Marine WildlifeConservation and animal protection groups sued several federal officials and departments today in the US Court of International Trade over their failure to implement the import provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection...
Congress Urged Not to Use Taxpayer Money to Prop Up Dangerous Mink Farms
Press ReleaseJuly 25, 2024Farmed Animals, Terrestrial WildlifeToday, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), joined by 46 public health scientists, veterinarians, animal welfare and conservation organizations, and other experts in their respective fields, delivered a letter to leaders of the Agriculture...
UNESCO Keeps Mexico Vaquita Habitat on World Heritage ‘In Danger’ List
Press ReleaseJuly 23, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeThe UNESCO World Heritage Committee renewed its call today for urgent action to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in Mexico. With merely six to eight individuals estimated remaining, the vaquita faces...
House Appropriations Bill Sacrifices Imperiled Species in Favor of Politicking
Press ReleaseJuly 22, 2024Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeThe US House of Representatives is set to vote this week on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 8998), a bill that severely slashes conservation funding for...
AWI Grants Support Humane Strategies to Manage Human-Wildlife Conflicts
Press ReleaseJuly 8, 2024Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the nine recipients of its Christine Stevens Wildlife Award who are developing humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts and less intrusive methods to study...
New Research: Weak Enforcement of State Farmed Animal Welfare Laws Continues
Press ReleaseJuly 2, 2024Farmed AnimalsThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released a new report today that documents how state-level farmed animal welfare laws continue to be minimally enforced, even though such laws could substantially improve the lives...
USMCA Council to Investigate Mexico’s Failure to Protect the Vaquita
Press ReleaseJune 27, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeAfter a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) voted unanimously yesterday to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Mexico has not enforced its own...
BLM Gallops Ahead With Wild Horse Eradication Plan Amid Ongoing Litigation
Press ReleaseJune 25, 2024EquinesLast week, Eubanks & Associates, on behalf of petitioners the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC), Western Watersheds Project (WWP), and others, notified the US District Court...
New Survey: No More Than Eight Vaquita Remain
Press ReleaseJune 18, 2024Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeOnly six to eight critically endangered vaquita may remain on the planet, the Mexican government announced last week in reporting the results of a new survey. Compared to the 8...
NOAA Greenlights Gray Whale Hunt for Makah Tribe
Press ReleaseJune 14, 2024Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is disappointed with yesterday’s decision by federal regulators to issue a waiver of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to the Makah Tribe of Washington state to...