AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Welcome Outcome for Ocelots
Terrestrial WildlifeOcelots may have a better chance at survival in the United States, thanks to a June 26 settlement AWI and the Center for Biological Diversity reached with the US Department...
USDA Declines to Improve Slaughter Regulations
Farmed AnimalsAt a slaughterhouse in Pennsylvania last year, an employee made three attempts to render a pig unconscious with a rifle, with the animal vocalizing after each shot to the head....
USDA Still Stonewalling on Access to Enforcement Records
After the public outcry regarding the US Department of Agriculture’s scrubbing of inspection records and other important enforcement documents from its website, the department began to restore selected records online....
Cownose Rays Get Reprieve
Marine WildlifeMaryland has placed a two-year moratorium on killing contests targeting cownose rays. The new law also directs the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to create a fishery management plan for...
Iceland Ices Fin Whaling Another Year
Marine WildlifeFor the second year in a row, Kristján Loftsson, CEO of the Icelandic whaling company Hvalur, stated that there will likely be no commercial fin whale hunt this summer. For...
Russia-China Orca Trade Expands
Marine WildlifeIn 2012, the animal protection community was shocked to learn that an orca (later named Narnia) had been captured in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. This was a huge step...
St. Lucia to Decide on Dolphinarium
Marine WildlifeIn the early 2000s, every time animal advocates turned around, it seemed there was a new proposal for a dolphinarium in the Caribbean. We fought every one—some were halted; others...
Virgin Holidays Takes Another Step Forward
Marine WildlifeIn 2014, AWI was invited by Virgin Holidays—one of the world’s biggest tourism companies—to take part in a stakeholder process through which Virgin intended to fine tune its policy on...
WTO Rules Against Dolphin-Safe Tuna Label (Again)
Marine WildlifeOn April 25, a World Trade Organization arbitrator ruled that Mexico can pursue retaliatory measures against the United States for the $163 million a year Mexico claims to lose because...
Carole Carlson
Marine WildlifeDr. Carole Carlson, a valiant advocate for the conservation of whales and their marine environment, died on March 24 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, of pancreatic cancer. She was 69. Carole was...