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Advocates Rally to Pressure Mexico to Protect Vanishing Vaquita
Conservation and animal protection organizations rallied outside the Mexican Embassy today to call on the Mexican government to take drastic...
Nine New House Bills Continue All-Out Assault on Endangered Species Act
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) strongly opposes a package of nine bills, 8 of which were introduced today by a...
Hybrid Blue-Fin Whale is Still Protected
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) takes exception to comments included in recent media reports characterizing hybrid whales as neither important...
Animal Welfare Institute Opposes Administration’s Devastating Assault on ESA
The Animal Welfare Institute strongly opposes three proposed rules released today by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that...
Shasta County Suspends Contract with Wildlife-Killing Agency
Responding to legal pressure from a coalition of animal protection and conservation groups, Shasta County officials have announced that the county will suspend...
AWI Applauds Removal of Anti-ESA Provisions from Defense Bill
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds the members of Congress who successfully worked to remove anti-wildlife riders from the Fiscal...
Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise
Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the US Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood...
Legislators Voice Opposition to Fish and Wildlife Service Plan Jeopardizing Red Wolf Survival
Twenty-nine state legislators, including 17 representing North Carolina, submitted a joint statement yesterday condemning a US Fish and Wildlife Service proposal that...
Animal Welfare Institute, Other Groups Urge Florida Governor to Reassign Raccoon Drowning Case
In a letter sent Monday to Florida Gov. Rick Scott regarding the Ocala teacher accused of drowning animals in front of his...
AWI Outlines Farm Bill Priorities as Congress Begins Deliberations
The conference between the US House of Representatives and Senate to work out their differences on the Farm Bill (H.R....