AWI Quarterly Term Archive
General/AWI
Newly Revamped: AWI’s Refinement Database
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI is pleased to announce the addition of new features to our online Refinement Database. These features make the database more searchable and improve its usability, making it easier to...
Congrats to AWI Scholarship Recipients
AWI extends our congratulations to Hailey Chui (California), Katja Erringer (Oregon), Sage Farrow (Colorado), Lien Ferry (Pennsylvania), Makenna Owens (Florida), Will Smith (Minnesota), Isabelle Sydow (Minnesota), and Chloe Quin (Illinois)....
AWI Contributes to Australian Wildlife Rescue and Recovery
Terrestrial WildlifeWhile the images of singed rescued koalas have dominated media attention, many other species are impacted by the Australian fires. Grey-headed flying foxes; platypuses; kangaroos; wallabies; quokkas; northern and southern...
John Thompson: The Game Changer
Companion AnimalsOn March 7, AWI presented the Schweitzer Medal to John Thompson in recognition of his extraordinary efforts to improve law enforcement’s recognition of animal cruelty as a crime of violence and its...
AWI Updates Refinement Database
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI’s Laboratory Animal Advisor, Dr. Joanna Makowska, has updated AWI’s database on the refinement of housing, husbandry, care, and use of animals in research. More than 600 new entries were...
Apply for Laboratory Animal Welfare Refinement Grants
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI congratulates the most recent Refinement Grant recipients: Dr. Brianna Gaskill, Purdue University: Investigating the link between laboratory personnel’s professional quality of life and the provision of environmental enrichment to animals...
AWI at United Nations Ocean Noise Meeting
Marine WildlifeAWI’s Susan Millward participated in the 19th meeting of the UN Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, held in June in New York, where...
AWI Report on Small Cetacean Slaughter Worldwide
Marine WildlifeAWI has joined forces with ProWildlife (based in Germany) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation on Small Cetaceans, Big Problems, a report that documents hunts of small cetaceans throughout the world. About...
AWI Partners with Acclaimed Author to Aid Endangered Animals
“When one is endangered, all are in peril.” This is the overarching theme of Katherine Applegate’s newest young adult book, Endling #1: The Last. The book—first in a series—hit shelves nationwide...
Revolutionary Science and a Reverence for Life: AWI Awards Schweitzer Medal to Dr. Samuel K Wasser
Terrestrial WildlifeSam Wasser’s life is bound by threads so small that a thousand of them braided together wouldn’t amount to a single eyelash. These threads are strands of deoxyribonucleic acid, better...