AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Snare Claims Wolf in Gruesome Fashion
Terrestrial WildlifeA wolf in Minnesota was shot and killed this February after a truly horrible encounter with a strangling snare. Wolves are not legal targets for such devices, but snares are...
A Primate Dealer’s Pitiful Con
Animals in LaboratoriesEnvelopes with white powder and a threatening message were sent to two people associated with Matthew Block, founder of Worldwide Primates, which imports primates for experimentation. One went to Block’s...
Under Fire, Mother Bears Alter Tactics
Terrestrial WildlifeBrown bear mothers in Sweden are apparently changing their reproductive strategy in response to hunting, according to a new study (Van de Walle et al., 2018). The study found that...
ARS Uses Kittens as Toxic Test Tubes
Animals in LaboratoriesA decades-long Agricultural Research Service (ARS) project has intentionally killed untold hundreds of kittens. According to the White Coat Waste Project, which exposed the study, the Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory...
Animal Protection Stays on Board Omnibus
Congress finally passed an “omnibus” funding measure for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Thanks to the intervention of our allies in the House and Senate, the barrage of...
Baboon Breakout at Biomedical Lab
Animals in LaboratoriesFour baboons housed in an outdoor corral escaped from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) by using a 55-gallon barrel to scale the enclosure. The clever monkeys had pulled the...
Citizens Trip Bobcat Trapping Proposals in Two States
Terrestrial WildlifeThis year, Indiana and Ohio officials floated the idea of establishing trapping seasons for bobcats in their respective states (and a hunting season in Indiana). Fortunately, after local AWI members...
Chicken Plant “Fowls” the Water
Farmed AnimalsResidents of Delaware’s Inland Bays community are crying foul on a nearby Mountaire Farms chicken plant that produces millions of gallons of wastewater a month from slaughtering and processing chickens....
Farm Bill
The Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, HR 2, was defeated on May 18 in the US House of Representatives by a vote of 198-213. This massive farm bill came...
Hawaii Halts Live Pig Shipments
Farmed AnimalsThe last shipment of live pigs from the US mainland—at least for the foreseeable future—has docked in Hawaii. For decades, pigs have been subjected to an arduous week-long journey by...