Program Term Archive
Animals in Laboratories
Farm Bill Passes House in a Missed Opportunity to Help Animals
Press ReleaseApril 30, 2026Animals in Laboratories, Companion Animals, Equines, Farmed AnimalsToday, the House of Representatives voted 224-200 to pass the Farm Bill—the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 (H.R. 7567). In addition to continuing to utilize taxpayer dollars...
NAMS: Advancing Science and Reducing Animal Use in Laboratories
Animals in LaboratoriesA brochure developed by AWI for high schoolers. Many scientists and animal advocacy groups have a shared goal of reducing or eliminating the use of animals in laboratories as nonanimal...
AWI Awards Eight Refinement Grants to Improve the Welfare of Animals in Laboratories
Press ReleaseMarch 12, 2026Animals in LaboratoriesThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) today recognizes eight Refinement Research Award and Implementing Refinement Grant recipients who are working to improve the lives of animals used in laboratories across the...
Refinements for Rodents and Rabbits in Research Institutions
Animals in LaboratoriesSynthetization of the last 15 years of research on welfare improvements to the housing and care of mice, rats, other rodents, and rabbits used in experimentation. Chapters include: housing, social...
Lab Dog
Animals in LaboratoriesA beagle named Hammy was fostered and then adopted by Melanie Kaplan. But Hammy wasn’t just any dog: He had been in a research laboratory for almost four years prior...
Sharing Info on Improving Welfare of Animals in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesIn November, AWI hosted an exhibit at the annual symposium of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science—the world’s largest gathering of personnel involved in the production, care, and use...
Ridglan to Relinquish State Breeding License
Animals in LaboratoriesRidglan Farms—one of two remaining US breeders of beagles for research—will cease its large-scale breeding-for-sale operations by July 2026, following grave allegations of animal neglect and cruelty (see AWI Quarterly, fall...
NIH Greenlights Grant Funds for Animal Rehoming
Animals in LaboratoriesAs of October, National Institutes of Health grant recipients are allowed to allocate a portion of their funding to the rehoming and retirement of animals after their use in experimentation....
IUCN Reaffirms Long-Tailed Macaques’ Endangered Status
Animals in Laboratories, Endangered Species, Terrestrial WildlifeIn October, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on wildlife conservation, officially reaffirmed the “endangered” designation of long-tailed macaques (LTMs)—a monkey species used extensively for biomedical...
AWI Report Analyzes Diminished AWA Enforcement
Animals in LaboratoriesThe US Department of Agriculture’s long history of ineffective Animal Welfare Act (AWA) enforcement against noncompliant breeders, dealers, exhibitors, and research facilities appears to have reached a new low. AWI...