AWI Quarterly Term Archive
General/AWI
AWI Helps Kenya Wildlife Service Take Wing to Ward Off Poachers
Terrestrial WildlifeEighty elephants were killed by poachers in Kenya during 2016. Since 2013, a total of 642 elephants have been killed—none during daylight hours. AWI has been working to help the...
A Letter from the President of AWI
After perhaps the most disheartening, divisive campaign in modern memory, the votes have been tabulated. Next year, a new administration will plant its flag in Washington, DC. A new Congress...
AWI’s New Book on Better Care of Animals in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI is pleased to announce publication of Committed to Animal Welfare: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum, Volume IV, edited by Viktor Reinhardt. Since 2002, AWI’s Laboratory Animal...
AWI Sues Monterey County over Wildlife Services Contract
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI and allies filed a lawsuit in June challenging the renewal by Monterey County, California, of its contract with the US Department of Agriculture’s deadly Wildlife Services program. The lawsuit...
AWI Responds to Norway’s Whaling Defiance
Marine WildlifeNorway has seen a continuous drop in demand for whale meat for several years, yet it continues to set quotas and kill whales in defiance of the commercial whaling moratorium...
Recipients of 2014 Christine Stevens Wildlife Awards
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI would like to congratulate the 2014 Christine Stevens Wildlife Award recipients: Dr. Rob Williams of Oceans Initiative—Compassionate conservation: assessing sustainability and welfare aspects of marine mammal deaths in British...
AWI Announces 2015 Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Grantees
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Christine Stevens Wildlife Award is a grant program named in honor of AWI’s late founder and president for over 50 years. Each year, the program provides grants of up...
AWI Announces 2015 Refinement and Enrichment Grant Awardees
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI is dedicated to improving the care, housing and handling of animals in research facilities. From our earliest days, we have encouraged laboratory personnel to provide animals with comfortable housing...
AWI and Allies Win Big Victory on Behalf of Marine Animals
Marine WildlifeA federal judge ruled on March 31 that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) acted illegally in approving US Navy testing and training activities that threaten widespread harm to marine...
AWI Staff Helps Stem Trash Tide Along DC River
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeWe pour a lot of plastic into the world’s oceans—directly and through the myriad waterways that spill into the seas. A pioneering study published in Science in February estimated that, in 2010...