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Sharks and Barks: Texas Two-Step for Animals
Companion Animals, Marine WildlifeTwo bills recently signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott mean good news for animals. HB 1579 prohibits buying and selling shark fins in the state, and makes Texas the 10th state...
Closing a Loophole on Veal Calf Slaughter
Farmed AnimalsOn May 13 the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) proposed an amendment to its regulation requiring the immediate humane euthanasia of nonambulatory cattle. The original 2007 regulation contains a...
Farm Animal Welfare: What You Can Do
Farmed AnimalsAWI works every day to improve the lives of farm animals. We endeavor to get animal welfare laws and regulations passed, pressure the agriculture industry to improve its standards, and...
Health Hazards in Chicken Production Exposed
Farmed AnimalsThe Trouble with Chicken, a Frontline documentary that premiered on PBS in May, exposes the dangers of microbial pathogens in poultry, and the lack of laws protecting the public. Following...
AWI Petitions to Have Thorny Skate Listed Under ESA
Marine WildlifeAWI and Defenders of Wildlife filed a petition on May 28 with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to list the Northwest Atlantic population of the thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata)...
Beluga Newborns Die at US Aquariums
Marine WildlifeOn June 5, a 3-week-old female beluga at Georgia Aquarium died. Just over a month later, another 3-week-old female beluga—born prematurely—died at SeaWorld San Antonio. The Georgia Aquarium birth had...
Ontario Says No to More Orcas in Captivity
Marine WildlifeOntario has become the first province in Canada to ban the breeding, purchase and sale of orcas. The new law, titled the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
Airlines Nix Hunting Trophies in Hold
Terrestrial WildlifeEmirates, the world’s largest international air carrier, announced in May that it would no longer ship hunting trophies of elephants, rhinos, lions, and tigers. In August, in the wake of...
Cecil the Lion Killed by American Hunter
Terrestrial WildlifeIn a tragedy that made international headlines, Cecil the lion, a 13-year-old pride leader described as the “biggest tourist attraction” of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, was killed by American trophy...
Hunting Group Wants Rhinos in Texas… for “Safekeeping”
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Exotic Wildlife Association (EWA) and groupelephant.com have hatched a plan to fly 1,000 of South Africa’s orphaned white rhinos—about 6 percent of that country’s white rhino population—to private ranches...