AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Feature Article
Researchers Recoil from Santa Cruz Biotech as Company Jettisons Its Goats and Rabbits
Animals in LaboratoriesA firestorm has rained down on Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (SCBT)—long one of the world’s largest antibody producers—following a February 19, 2016, Nature article entitled “Thousands of goats and rabbits...
Caught by Mistake
Companion Animals, Terrestrial WildlifePets suffer serious steel-jaw leghold trap injuries Unimaginable. Traumatic. That’s how the veterinarians who treated Cub described his injuries. He was discovered hobbling along a road in New Mexico; his...
Will Custom-Exempt Slaughter Expand at Expense of Animal Welfare?
Farmed AnimalsThis is a story of the little known practice of custom-exempt slaughter, how it could expand in size and impact throughout the United States, and why that is almost certainly...
Grim Conditions for China’s Captive Cetaceans
Marine WildlifeOn December 4, 2015, the China Cetacean Alliance (CCA) launched a major campaign to raise public awareness of the suffering faced by the cetaceans held captive in China. AWI is...
Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick
Terrestrial Wildlife(1940-2015) With the death of Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick, we lost one of the leading advocates for humane wildlife population control. His research, development, production, and long-term use of immunocontraceptives in...
Better Boots on the Ground
Terrestrial WildlifeThe horrible poaching of tens of thousands of elephants in Africa each year has motivated people around the world to demand greater efforts to protect the great pachyderms from criminal...
CITES Standing Committee Meets in Geneva
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe 66th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in mid-January, covered a wide...
Ecological Impacts of Red Wolves in North Carolina
Terrestrial WildlifeIn 1987, eight years before gray wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park, the US Fish and Wildlife Service performed their first successful attempt at reintroducing a top carnivore into...
Déjà Vu: Latest OIG Report Again Censures USDA’s Enforcement of the AWA
Animals in LaboratoriesIn December 2014, the USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its latest broadside against the inadequacy of the USDA’s enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). This sharply critical...
For Animals in Research, Euthanasia Should Not Add Suffering
Animals in LaboratoriesThe conclusion of a study almost always means euthanasia (from the Greek for “easy death”) for animals in research. As with all phases of research, there are moral, regulatory, and...