AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Quick Read
Sound Off: New York’s Mute Swans Finally Win Reprieve
Terrestrial WildlifeThis past December, mute swans in New York finally gained protection under legislation introduced by Senator Tony Avella and Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation released...
114th Congress: Parting Shots
The continuing resolution that the 114th Congress passed in December to fund the government until April 28 kept in place AWI-supported language denying funds for horse slaughter plant inspections by the...
115th Congress: Opening Salvos
AWI welcomes Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL) as the new co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus in the 115th Congress, replacing Representative Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who retired at the end...
USDA Scrubs Website of Enforcement Records
On February 3, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) abruptly removed from its website inspection reports and other key documents relating to enforcement of the Horse Protection...
Audit of USDA Research Center Underwhelms
Farmed AnimalsNear the end of 2016, the USDA Office of Inspector General released an audit intended “to evaluate the research practices and operations of MARC” (the USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center...
Hardly Humane: Stricter Standards Needed for Food Product Labels
Farmed AnimalsIn an attempt to clarify its procedures, the US Department of Agriculture published a new guidance document that explains the department’s approval process for animal raising claims such as humanely raised, free...
United Nations Adopts Animal Welfare Recommendations
Farmed AnimalsThis fall, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on World Food Security (CWFS) met in Rome to discuss pertinent issues related to sustainable agriculture development for food security and...
AWI Works to Protect Wildlife in the Caribbean
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region—commonly referred to as the Cartagena Convention—is the only legally binding regional environmental treaty focused...
Dolphins Confined Under Arizona Sun
Marine WildlifeFor the first time in a decade, a new captive dolphin attraction has been built in the United States from the ground up, this time in Arizona. Dolphinaris, where customers...
Freed Dolphins Form Families
Marine WildlifeIn 2013, the Korean Animal Welfare Association (KAWA), local scientists, and government officials planned the release of five captive bottlenose dolphins—named Je-dol, Sampal, Chunsam, Taesan, and Boksoon—who had been illegally...