News – Page 32 – Animal Welfare Institute

AWI Expands Directory to Help Unhoused People and Their Pets

Today, Safe Havens for Pets, an initiative of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), launched an expanded online directory to include sheltering services...

National Endangered Species Coalition Responds to Republican-led Congressional Attacks on ESA and Gray Wolves

Today, the Republican-led US House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries considered legislation that would dramatically weaken the widely popular Endangered...

CEQ Guts NEPA by Rescinding Regulations

Today the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) took the most drastic action since its creation in 1970 by rescinding 50...

Department of Interior Weakens Migratory Bird Protections

Late last week, the Department of the Interior reissued a legal opinion that weakens the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)...

Trump Administration Seeks to Slash Habitat Protections for Endangered Wildlife

Today the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (the Services) issued a proposed rule that would undermine...

As Iceland Calls Off Fin Whale Slaughter, Japan and Norway Launch Cruel, Unsustainable Whale Hunting Seasons

Japan and Norway resumed slaughtering whales this month, while Iceland’s only fin whaling company has decided that it will not...

AWI Supports Phasing Out Animal Use in Research and Testing, but Proper Planning is Essential to Protect Animals and Science

Last month, both the National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to phase out...

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