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Press Statement
AWI Statement: Offshore Drilling Proposal Would Jeopardize Marine Life
Press StatementJanuary 5, 2018Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) joins the growing number of citizens and elected officials from both parties in staunch opposition to the US Department of the Interior’s proposed plan to...
AWI Statement: Extraordinary Reversal Protects Elephants, For Now
Press StatementNovember 20, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeSecretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke issued a statement late Friday night halting a notice in the Federal Register—published earlier that day—allowing the importation of sport-hunted elephant trophies into the United States. In...
AWI Statement: Under Guise of Conservation, USFWS Further Threatens African Elephants
Press StatementNovember 17, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeThe US Fish and Wildlife Service issued today a notice in the Federal Register allowing hunters to bring trophies of elephants killed in Zimbabwe back to the United States, reversing a ban...
AWI Statement: Vaquita CPR Program Needs to End
Press StatementNovember 6, 2017Marine WildlifeA breeding-age female vaquita porpoise died on November 4, following her capture by the VaquitaCPR (Conservation, Protection and Recovery) program—which seeks to capture and temporarily relocate the remaining vaquita to an...
AWI Statement: SeaWorld’s Lack of Transparency Failing Science, Conservation
Press StatementAugust 8, 2017Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and other animal advocacy organizations issued an open letter today to Joel Manby, CEO of SeaWorld, requesting the release of Tilikum's necropsy (animal autopsy) report and his...
Statement in Response to Second Delay of Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices Rule
Press StatementMay 10, 2017Farmed AnimalsThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), and Farm Forward implore the USDA to implement the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices...
AWI Statement in Response to Ringling’s Closure Announcement
Press StatementJanuary 17, 2017Terrestrial WildlifeRingling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it is shutting its doors in May 2017 after 146 years in operation, according to a January 14 press release from Feld Entertainment. Cathy...
AWI Statement in Response to Death of SeaWorld Orca Tilikum
Press StatementJanuary 6, 2017Marine WildlifeTilikum, the SeaWorld orca who changed the captive cetacean world when he killed his trainer, Dawn Brancheau, at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010, has died. He was approximately 36 years of...
Statement in Response to US/Mexico’s Renewed Commitment to Imperiled Vaquita
Press StatementJuly 22, 2016Marine WildlifeAnimal Welfare Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Natural Resources Defense Council make the following statement regarding President Obama and President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico’s commitments on the...
AWI Statement in Response to False Online Petitions
Press StatementJune 8, 2016Terrestrial WildlifeOver the past few months, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has been the target of several online petitions, circulated on Change.org and spread through social media networks, which falsely claim...