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97 Legislators Voice Opposition to Anti-Wildlife Spending Bill Riders
Ninety-seven legislators sent a letter yesterday urging House leadership to reject anti-wildlife riders in the final Department of the Interior,...
BLM Approves Surgical Sterilization Experiments on Oregon’s Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burns District Office in Oregon announced Wednesday night that it will begin controversial experiments...
IWC Broadens Conservation Mandate, Rejects Japan’s Bid to Resume Commercial Whaling
As the International Whaling Commission meeting wrapped up this week, members voted on several key measures that will impact whales...
Lawsuit Filed to Stop Barbaric BLM Wild Horse Sterilization Experiments
Citing violations of the US Constitution and three federal laws, an alliance of wild horse protection and animal welfare advocates...
800,000+ Public Comments Submitted in Defense of Endangered Species Act
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and 16 other conservation groups submitted more than 500,000 public comments to the US...
House Committee to Vote on Removing Federal Protections for Gray Wolves
UPDATE: The House Natural Resources Committee voted Sept. 26 to remove federal protections for the gray wolf under the Endangered...
Horse Advocates Seek Injunction to Block Trump Administration from Surgically Removing Ovaries of Wild Mares
A coalition of animal protection and wild horse advocacy groups filed a motion Friday for a preliminary injunction in US District...
CITES Censures Japan for Trading in Whale Products from an Endangered Species
Conservation organizations today welcomed the news that Japan’s import and sale of sei whale products from its controversial “scientific” whaling...
Barn Fire Report Documents 2.7 million+ Farm Animal Deaths
Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released a first-of-its-kind report highlighting the more than 2.7 million US farm animals who perished...
NJ Could Become First State to Ban Multiple Exotic Animals in Circus Acts
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds the New Jersey Assembly Monday for passing Nosey’s Law (S1093), which would ban the...