Program Term Archive
Terrestrial Wildlife
ProTECT Act Would Ban Trophy Imports & Domestic Sport Hunting of At-Risk Species
Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2024Terrestrial WildlifeThe Prohibiting Threatened and Endangered Creature Trophies Act (ProTECT Act) was reintroduced yesterday, and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) for...
Good Money After Bad: Primate Research Centers Seek Funds to Expand While Failing on Animal Welfare
Animals in Laboratories, Terrestrial WildlifeIn the early 1960s, the federal government established a network of National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) to promote biomedical research on primates. Funded through the National Institutes of Health, seven...
Massive Monkey Breeding Facility Planned in Georgia
Animals in Laboratories, Terrestrial WildlifeA 200-acre breeding “megafacility” is planned in Bainbridge, Georgia, to provide monkeys for biomedical research. At peak capacity, it would hold 30,000 long-tailed macaques—at least triple the number currently housed...
Caribbean Species Gain Protections at SPAW Protocol Meeting
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Caribbean Environment Programme was established in 1981 as one of the United Nations’ “Regional Seas” programs, in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean’s fragile and...
Building the Movement to Ban Commercial Kangaroo Killing
Terrestrial WildlifeI don’t know what shocked me more when I was offered the chance to become a kangaroo advocate in Europe. Was it that I, a native of the Netherlands, had...
Climate Change Could Trigger Catastrophic Species Loss
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn a new study published in Global Change Biology (Wiens & Zelinka, 2024), researchers at the University of Arizona examined a comprehensive suite of factors to estimate climate-caused extinction in coming decades. The conclusions...
Petition Seeks Regs to Rein in Wildlife Services
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI and allies submitted a petition for rulemaking to the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in November urging the agency to adopt regulations governing its...
Protecting Predators on National Wildlife Refuges
Terrestrial WildlifeThe US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed prohibiting most forms of predator control on National Wildlife Refuge System lands, which AWI strongly supports. In comments, we highlighted the critical...
Animal Welfare Measures in State Legislatures
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI led efforts to get a bill introduced in the Illinois Senate to ban mink farming in the state. Sponsored by Assistant Majority Leader Linda Holmes, the Mink Facility Disease...
The Accidental Ecosystem
Terrestrial WildlifeWhen we encounter a raccoon, deer, bat, fox, or some other wild animal in our neighborhood, we’re often pleasantly surprised—but not as amazed, perhaps, as our recent urban forebears might...