AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Feature Article
Bird Strikes on Aircraft: What’s the Risk?
Terrestrial WildlifeIt's hard to imagine what the passengers of US Airways flight 1549 experienced in January 2009. Only minutes after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport, an emergency forced Captain Chesley...
Climate Talks Run Cold
Terrestrial WildlifeLast December, Representatives of 193 governments gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark for the 15th United Nations (UN) Climate Change conference in what marked the largest gathering of heads of state and governments...
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Terrestrial WildlifeDestination DohaIn March, representatives from 184 countries, scientists and advocates will gather in Doha, Qatar for the 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...
Informed Advocacy: Food for Thought and Sustainability
Terrestrial WildlifeEarly last May in the heart of coastal British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest, an area that safeguards one of the planet’s last grizzly bear-salmon strongholds, my team from the Raincoast...
The Massachusetts Beaver Controversy
Terrestrial WildlifeWhen Massachusetts citizens voted overwhelmingly in 1996 to outlaw steel jaw leghold traps, other body-gripping traps, and snares for capturing fur-bearing animals, critics of the law loudly proclaimed that disaster...
AWI to the Rescue!
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI Joins Forces with Shelters and Rescue Organizations to Save Hundreds of Animals from Lab Under Investigation for Abuse A dramatic rescue occurred in September, when nearly 200 dogs and...
New and Improved Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
Animals in LaboratoriesA revised version of The National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (the Guide) has been released as a pre-publication draft, the first revision of the Guide...
Ferocious on the Field, Compassionate on the Pasture
Farmed AnimalsNFL Football Star Will Witherspoon’s Biggest Win is the AWA Seal Football is America's toughest major professional sport. Its players are renowned for their size, strength, agility and laser-like focus—as...
Humane Slaughter Laws: Enforcement Up, But Still Insufficient
Farmed AnimalsA new report, Humane Slaughter Update: Comparing State and Federal Enforcement of Humane Slaughter Laws, has just been published by the Animal Welfare Institute. According to the report, nearly three years after...
Will Genetically Engineered Salmon Sink or Swim?
Farmed Animals, Marine WildlifeIn a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington, DC suburbs this September, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) heard from the public on the question of whether a farm-raised Atlantic salmon...