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AWI Celebrates 2025 Wins for Animals
Press StatementDecember 29, 2025All ProgramsWith 2025 drawing to a close, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is celebrating some of the year’s most significant steps forward for animal welfare—wins that are making a real difference...
387,000+ Public Comments Submitted in Defense of Endangered Species Act
Press StatementDecember 23, 2025Endangered SpeciesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and 29 other conservation groups facilitated the submission of more than 387,000 public comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine...
AWI Statement on Trump Administration’s Plan to Reduce Animal Experimentation Amid Attack on Science
Press StatementJune 18, 2025Animals in LaboratoriesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds recent announcements by the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration about their plans to reduce the use of animals in research and testing....
AWI Mourns Congressman Raúl Grijalva, an Exceptional Champion for Animals
Press StatementMarch 14, 2025All ProgramsRep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a staunch advocate for animals and the environment who dedicated half a century to public service, died Thursday at the age of 77. In response, Susan...
A Statement from AWI: AWI has chosen to go quiet this week on social media
Press StatementJune 3, 2020All ProgramsAWI has chosen to go quiet this week on social media. While the animal welfare issues we work on remain as pertinent as ever, we are cognizant of the fact...
A Note from the President of AWI Regarding COVID-19
Press StatementMarch 25, 2020All ProgramsDear Members and other friends of AWI: As you know, coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading around the globe, and the human species is facing a pandemic unlike any the vast majority...
Statement from AWI RE: Australian Wildfires
Press StatementJanuary 9, 2020Terrestrial WildlifeWe at AWI, like so many people around the world, are deeply concerned about the impacts of the wildfires raging in Australia. The loss of life, both animal and human,...
AWI Statement on Japan’s Commencement of Commercial Whaling
Press StatementJuly 1, 2019Marine WildlifeJapan faces international criticism and risks legal challenges as it launches a government-subsidized commercial whaling program to kill 383 whales this year with no international oversight. On June 30, Japan withdrew from...
AWI Statement on House Bill to Protect North Atlantic Right Whale
Press StatementMarch 7, 2019Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds Representatives Seth Moulton (D-MA) and John Rutherford (R-FL) for introducing the bipartisan Scientific Assistance for Very Endangered (SAVE) Right Whales Act. This legislation would...
AWI Statement on Iceland Whaling Quota
Press StatementFebruary 21, 2019Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) strongly opposes Iceland’s decision Tuesday to establish a base whaling quota of 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales annually from 2019 to 2023. Due...