AWI Quarterly Term Archive
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Slowing Growth to Improve Animal Welfare
Farmed AnimalsPoultry engineered to quickly grow freakishly large is a big welfare problem in animal agriculture. So it was good news when Global Animal Partnership (GAP), a third-party animal welfare rating...
USDA Proposes Organic Animal Welfare Standards
Farmed AnimalsSince the national organic regulations went into effect in 2001, AWI has called on the US Department of Agriculture and the National Organic Standards Board to establish animal welfare requirements...
AWI Petition Approved: Russian Beluga Whales to Receive US Protection
Marine WildlifeIn early April, the US National Marine Fisheries Service proposed designating the Sakhalin Bay-Amur River population of beluga whales in Russia as “depleted” under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)....
Groups Call for ESA Listing of Critically Endangered Dolphin
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeAWI joined forces in April with Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity in filing a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service to list the Taiwanese humpback...
AWI Hosts CITES Event on Endangered Vaquita, Totoaba
Marine WildlifeAWI co-hosted an event to highlight the plight of the vaquita porpoise and the totoaba fish during the January meeting of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species...
Sea Pen Sanctuaries Assessed at Marine Mammal Conference
Marine WildlifeOn December 13, AWI’s Dr. Naomi Rose and her colleague Dr. Lori Marino of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy conducted a workshop on sea pen sanctuaries for cetaceans, in...
USFWS Seeks to Reduce Manatee Protections
Marine WildlifeIn January, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a reclassification of the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. AWI strongly opposes this proposal....
New Nestling for Oldest Albatross
Terrestrial WildlifeWisdom, a Laysan albatross and the oldest wild bird known to science, has just become a mom again. In February, Wisdom and her mate, Gooo (so named because he was...
USFWS Moving Slow on Sloth Protection
Terrestrial WildlifeIn December, AWI officially notified the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) of its intent to sue the agency for failing to decide in a timely fashion on whether to...
Animal Welfare Measures Included in Funding Bill
As the first session of the 114th Congress wound down at the end of 2015, a massive $1.1 trillion bill funding government operations through September 30, 2016, passed and was signed...