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Horse Meat from Mexico Banned in the EU
EquinesThe European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU), has conditionally banned horse meat imported from Mexico due to food safety concerns. The ban took effect on January...
Perdue’s Animal Care Standards Exposed
Farmed AnimalsPerdue Farms engages thousands of “contract farmers” each year to raise company-owned birds. Contract farmers are obligated to abide by Perdue’s animal-raising standards and any other specifications established by the...
Shocking Cruelty at USDA Research Center
Farmed AnimalsA January 19 article in The New York Times shined an extremely harsh light on the practices at the USDA’s Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Clay Center, Nebraska. The in-depth article described...
Japan’s Scientific Whaling Program—Same Plan, Different Name
Marine WildlifeIn November, Japan submitted its plans for a resumption of whaling in the Southern Ocean to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), despite the March 2014 ruling of the International Court...
Protecting the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeIn early December, AWI’s executive director, Susan Millward, attended meetings of the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (the “Cartagena Convention”)....
AWI Announces 2015 Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Grantees
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Christine Stevens Wildlife Award is a grant program named in honor of AWI’s late founder and president for over 50 years. Each year, the program provides grants of up...
CITES Animals Committee Convenes in Israel
Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeOver 200 wildlife experts from around the world met in Tel Aviv in late August/early September at the 28th meeting of the Animals Committee of the Convention on International Trade in...
Court Deals Blow to Wind Energy Permits to Harm Eagles
Terrestrial WildlifeThe US District Court for the Northern District of California, on August 11, struck down a decision by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to allow wind energy developers...
OIG Opts for Anemic Audit of Wildlife Services
Terrestrial WildlifeAWI is gravely disappointed in the outcome of the review of the federal Wildlife Services program by the USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG took up the investigation...
Rancher Who Illegally Sent 1,800 Horses to Slaughter Skates Free
Equines, Terrestrial WildlifeColorado rancher and livestock hauler Tom Davis spent close to $18,000 to purchase approximately 1,800 horses from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program from 2008...