AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Working to Get Animal Welfare into Federal Budget
Companion Animals, Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeTaking advantage of the opportunity to testify before Congressional committees as they begin to determine spending levels for Fiscal Year 2013 (beginning October 2012), AWI asked for continued support for...
No Kidding! Goats Have Accents
Farmed AnimalsResearchers have found that goats develop their own “accents” as they grow older and move among social groups. The study, published in the journal Animal Behavior, shows that a goat’s environment...
President Honors AWA Farmers
Farmed AnimalsChad and Jodi Ray, owners of Animal Welfare Approved Ray Family Farms, were honored by the Obama administration as “Champions of Change” in connection with the president’s Winning the Future...
Amazon Axes Whale Sales
Marine WildlifeOnline retailer Amazon.com removed whale meat products from its Japanese website in February after a single day of public protests and a stern rebuke from the US Commissioner to the International...
AWI Attends Beantown Seafood Show
Marine WildlifeAWI’s Mariko Terasaki and Kate O’Connell took part in the Boston Seafood Show, March 11 through 13. The show was attended by more than 900 seafood supply companies from more...
Rays at Risk from Medicine Hunters
Marine WildlifeAlarm bells are ringing for the fate of all manta and mobula ray species because of increased demand for their fins and gill rakers—the apparatus by which they filter their...
Unusual Mass Dolphin Stranding in Peru
Marine WildlifePeru’s northwest shoreline above Chiclayo is beautifully desolate—sandy dunes running into the surf for over a hundred miles. In January, locals reported dead dolphins washing up on the beaches, but...
Agencies Fight On as White-Nose Syndrome Advances
Terrestrial WildlifeThe numbers are extremely bleak: bats in 20 states are now affected by white-nose syndrome (WNS) or the associated fungus, and the estimated death toll was recently revised upward to...
Groups Ask EPA to Get the Lead Out of Ammo
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and 99 other groups in 35 states formally petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in March to regulate toxic lead in hunting ammunition to...
Running over Animals in the Path to the Pump
Terrestrial WildlifePresident Obama denied a permit in January for the Keystone XL pipeline’s proposed route over the border from Canada, across the critically important Ogallala Aquifer, on down to the Gulf...