Archive: Government/Legal
Sustaining the Seas: Outcomes of Third UN Ocean Conference
The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) took place in Nice, France, in June. One of its priorities was...
Fending Off Octopus and Marine Fish Factory Farms
A pair of bipartisan bills currently before Congress would protect octopuses, finfish, and marine ecosystems from the animal welfare and...
Federal Protection of Animals in Transport Goes off the Rails
Every year, hundreds of millions of farmed animals are shipped across the United States to breeding, feeding, and slaughter facilities—transport...
Administration Takes Aim at California Animal Welfare Law
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the state of California in July, alleging that a combination of its...
Court Corrals BLM’s Wild Horse Removal Plan
We are delighted to report that on July 15, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled in...
NIH Announces Major Change in Funding Priorities
In line with its recently announced initiative to prioritize human-based research (see AWI Quarterly, summer 2025), the NIH announced in July that moving...
Beagle Breeder Under Investigation
Ridglan Farms, one of two remaining US breeders of beagles for research (and the country’s second largest dog breeder overall),...
AWI’s Nancy Blaney: Tenacious in Making Government Work for Animals
On any given day, you’ll find Nancy Blaney, AWI’s director of government affairs, sprinting through the halls of Congress, camped...
Beagle Breeder Atrocities Leave USDA-APHIS Unmoved
“Beagle production facility.” That’s how John Sagartz, chief strategy officer for Inotiv (the company that purchased Envigo last November) repeatedly...
PAST Act Passes House
On November 14, by a resounding 304-111 vote, the US House of Representatives passed the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST)...
Latest AWI Quarterly Articles on Companion Animals
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North American Environmental Commission Confirms Mexico’s Role in Imperiling Vaquita
In Program: Marine WildlifeA commission under the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) released a report yesterday confirming that Mexico’s unwillingness to enforce its own wildlife protection, trade, and fisheries laws...
Captive dolphins face uncertain futures. They deserve better
In Program: Marine WildlifeIn this op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times, Dr. Naomi Rose, AWI’s senior scientist in marine mammal biology, discusses the challenges in caring for orcas...
Yahoo! Japan Sells Polluted Whale and Dolphin Meat Products to Unsuspecting Consumers
In Program: Marine WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and an international coalition of animal protection and environmental groups are calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the...
As Iceland Calls Off Fin Whale Slaughter, Japan and Norway Launch Cruel, Unsustainable Whale Hunting Seasons
In Program: Marine WildlifeJapan and Norway resumed slaughtering whales this month, while Iceland’s only fin whaling company has decided that it will not hunt this summer, citing a...