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Marine Wildlife
Despite Promises, Mystic Aquarium Imported Unhealthy Whales from Canada
Press ReleaseMarch 28, 2022Marine WildlifeAs more details emerge about the deaths of two of the five beluga whales imported to Mystic Aquarium from Canada last year—and the ongoing illness of a third whale—the Animal Welfare Institute...
CITES Approves Totoaba Trade in Major Blow to Imperiled Vaquita Porpoise
Press ReleaseMarch 11, 2022Marine WildlifeThe Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) voted 9-5 Thursday to permit Earth Ocean Farms (EOF), an aquaculture facility...
From Bad to Worse at Miami Seaquarium
Marine WildlifeIn September 2021, a damning inspection report prepared by the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) was released for Miami Seaquarium. (See AWI Quarterly, winter 2021.)...
Hawaii First US State to Ban Shark Fishing
Marine WildlifeOn January 1, Hawaii became the first US state to make shark fishing illegal. The law bans anyone from knowingly capturing, entangling, or killing any shark species in the state’s...
Iceland’s Lone Fin Whaler Prepares to Strike Again
Marine WildlifeHvalur, Iceland’s sole remaining fin whaling company, announced in March that it intends to resume hunting this summer for the first time since 2018. Its two aging whaling vessels are...
Kazakhstan Will Phase Out Captive Dolphin Displays
Marine WildlifeYet another country has concluded that keeping cetaceans in captivity for human entertainment is an archaic practice that should end. After a two-year effort by activists in Kazakhstan, as well...
Overhunting Threatens Greenland Narwhals
Marine WildlifeAWI and more than 30 other animal protection and conservation organizations have called on the government of Greenland to immediately cancel hunting quotas for 50 narwhals from three populations in...
Living Planet
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth—a fully updated edition of Sir David Attenborough’s 1984 book that accompanied the BBC’s Living Planet documentary series—the famed naturalist takes readers on a journey...
We Are All Whalers
Marine WildlifeWith We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility, Dr. Michael Moore proves definitively that he is no ivory tower scientist. He speaks with passion about his decades-long...
AWI Welcomes Introduction of Legislation to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales
Press ReleaseFebruary 16, 2022Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) applauds Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) for introducing today the Right Whale Coexistence...