AWI Quarterly Term Archive

Feature Article

Research Animal Adoption: A Growing Trend 

Animals in Laboratories, Companion Animals

What happens to animals in research, after they are no longer needed for a study? In some cases, the research protocol does not call for euthanasia of the animals. Thus,...

AWI Uncovers Animal Suffering at Poultry Slaughterhouses

Farmed Animals

Using enforcement documents supplied by the USDA, AWI has identified the US poultry slaughter plants with the worst records on animal welfare. The survey covered violations of industry animal care...

AWI Working to Keep Whale Products out of US Ports

Marine Wildlife

Each year, nearly 12 million cargo containers enter the United States via a network of 360 US seaports. Monitoring, tracking and inspecting such a huge number of shipments is a...

Can the Vaquita Be Saved?

Marine Wildlife

Numerous lists of species that are likely to go extinct within the next few years have been published. Front and center on all of them is the tiny, critically endangered...

Monkeys Don’t Wear Diapers: Heartwarming and Heartbreaking Stories from a Monkey Sanctuary

Terrestrial Wildlife

The legal and illegal trade in monkeys is staggering. An Internet search using the phrase, “baby monkey for sale,” reveals thousands of ads for virtually every known primate species. For...

New Jersey Threatens to Bring Back Leghold Traps

Terrestrial Wildlife

New Jersey has been free of steel-jaw leghold traps since 1985—one year after the state legislature banned the possession, use, manufacture, sale, importation, or transport of all leghold traps. AWI...

Noninvasive Method for Locating Wolverine Denning Sites at a Landscape Scale

Terrestrial Wildlife

Viable wolverine populations require the survival of reproductive females. Managing potentially disruptive human activity where breeding females live is of paramount importance for successful reproduction and ultimately viable populations. Historically,...

USFWS Undermines Red Wolf Recovery

Terrestrial Wildlife

There has been a significant reduction in gunshot mortality of red wolves over the last year, ever since coyote hunting was restricted in the wolves’ North Carolina habitat as a...

Federal ORCA Act Introduced

Marine Wildlife

On November 6, 2015, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced that he would introduce the Orca Responsibility and Care Advancement (ORCA) Act. With eight original cosponsors, the ORCA Act (HR 4019)...

Ethical Antibodies—Researchers Deciding that “Animal Welfare Matters”

Animals in Laboratories

On October 16, 2015, Alice Ra’anan and Bill Yates of the American Physiological Society published a blog post for Speaking of Research entitled “Caveat Emptor,” with the subtitle “A current...