Archive: News
AWI Awards Grants to Improve Quality of Life for Animals Used in Research
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased to announce the 2023 winners of the Refinement Research Award, which funds research projects...
Biden Administration Restores NEPA Regulations Critical to Battle Against Climate Change
The White House Council on Environmental Quality released today its final phase II rule updating regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act...
Captive Primate Safety Act Would End the Cruel and Dangerous Primate Pet Trade (2024)
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses yesterday’s reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel...
USDA Takes Long-Awaited Step to End Inhumane Horse Soring
Today, the US Department of Agriculture published a final rule to end the brutal practice of horse soring at Tennessee walking horse...
AWI Scholarship Winners Display Ambition, Ingenuity in Protecting Animals
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the 12 winners of a scholarship designed to support high school seniors who...
House Bill Would Ban Wildlife Killing Contests on Public Lands
Today, more than 14 members of the US House of Representatives introduced legislation that would prohibit organizing, sponsoring, conducting, or...
House Farm Bill Draft Helps Domestic Violence Survivors and Their Pets, But Rewards Industries That Abuse Animals
The US House Committee on Agriculture will weigh in Thursday on the long-awaited, 942-page Farm Bill, a massive legislative package—reauthorized every...
Big Money Talks in Fight to Save Endangered Monkeys from Extinction
This month, a committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is scheduled to determine whether long-tailed macaques...
Bill Introduced to Prohibit Interstate Transport of Vulnerable Livestock and Improve Travel Conditions for Others
Today, US Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) introduced the Humane Transport of Farmed Animals Act to improve conditions for livestock transported across the...
Japan and Iceland Approve Fin Whale Hunts, Despite Record Low Demand for Whale Meat
Today, Japan and Iceland decided to allow each country’s last remaining whale companies to hunt fin whales, the second largest...