AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Georgia Aquarium Ends Wild Whale Acquisition Efforts
Marine WildlifeOn June 22, 2016, Georgia Aquarium announced it would no longer seek to acquire dolphins or beluga whales from the wild for its exhibits. While an important step forward, the...
Historic Orca Captivity Bill Becomes Law in California
Marine WildlifeIn March 2014, California Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) introduced into the California Assembly AB 2140—a bill to prohibit the breeding of captive orcas and their use in theatrical shows...
On Trapping Laws, US Caught in the Dark Ages
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress released Laws on Leg-Hold Traps Around the World in August, a report that identifies countries that prohibit the use of steel-jaw...
A Letter from the President of AWI
After perhaps the most disheartening, divisive campaign in modern memory, the votes have been tabulated. Next year, a new administration will plant its flag in Washington, DC. A new Congress...
Horned Owl Has Awful Encounter with Steel-Jaw Leghold Trap
Terrestrial WildlifeThe victim was caught out of trapping season and appeared to have been in the trap for days. The trap lacked required identification, and did not catch a furbearing animal,...
Otter Trade on the Rise in Southeast Asia
Terrestrial WildlifeA new report, Illegal Otter Trade: An Analysis of Seizures in Selected Asian Countries (1980–2015), by TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network, examines the black market trade in live otters and otter...
Red Wolf Population Dwindles as USFWS Dithers
Terrestrial WildlifeSince a victory by AWI and allies in a lawsuit to limit coyote hunting in the red wolf recovery area (see AWI Quarterly, summer 2014), the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
AWI’s New Book on Better Care of Animals in Research
Animals in LaboratoriesAWI is pleased to announce publication of Committed to Animal Welfare: Discussions by the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum, Volume IV, edited by Viktor Reinhardt. Since 2002, AWI’s Laboratory Animal...
Animal Welfare on the Line in State Ballot Measures
The outcome of these ballot measures this fall will affect conditions for farm animals and wildlife. AWI supports the first three and opposes the fourth. Montana I-177 would end commercial...
Research Center Paints Glowing (and False) Picture of Itself
Animals in LaboratoriesThe abysmal animal welfare record of the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is well documented: three stipulated penalty fines from 2007, 2010, and...