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Library of Congress Reports on Ritual Slaughter Laws in Europe
Farmed AnimalsIn March, the Law Library of Congress released an in-depth report on the legal status of religious slaughter in 21 European nations. The European Union’s Council Regulation 1099/2009 and the...
NC Legislature Lets Big Pork Pollute with Impunity
Farmed AnimalsThe North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval to a bill that restricts nuisance lawsuits against factory farms and other agricultural operations. The law is a reaction to several lawsuits...
Perdue’s “Happy Chickens” Claim Ruffles Rival’s Feathers
Farmed AnimalsThe Council of Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) has concluded that claims made by Perdue Farms in a national broadcast advertising campaign were misleading. NAD is a nonregulatory...
AWI at United Nations Ocean Noise Meeting
Marine WildlifeAWI’s Susan Millward participated in the 19th meeting of the UN Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, held in June in New York, where...
AWI Report on Small Cetacean Slaughter Worldwide
Marine WildlifeAWI has joined forces with ProWildlife (based in Germany) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation on Small Cetaceans, Big Problems, a report that documents hunts of small cetaceans throughout the world. About...
Icelandic Whalers Kill Rare Hybrid Whale
Marine WildlifeIn July, observers perched on top of the hillside overlooking Iceland’s Hvalur fin whaling station noticed that the large whale being dragged up the slipway looked different. The whale was...
Key Court Victory for Vaquita
Marine WildlifeIn March 2018, AWI and allies filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade to force the Trump administration to uphold provisions in the Marine Mammal Protection Act...
Humans Turning Animals into Night Owls
Terrestrial WildlifeKaitlyn Gaynor et al., in a study published in Science in June, found that in areas of high human activity, animals are choosing to conduct more of their own affairs at night....
Nontarget Trapping Is Killing Cougars
Terrestrial WildlifeA study by Alyson Andreasen et al., published in the Journal of Wildlife Management earlier this year, examined the fate of cougars caught in leghold traps and lethal snares set for other...
Trap Time a Factor in Snared Wolves’ Stress Response
Terrestrial WildlifeResearchers in Portugal (Nuno Santos et al., 2017) studied the live-capture of wolves for ecological research to assess the animals’ stress response and the potential benefits of reducing the length...