Washington, DC—The Trump Administration weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with a final rulemaking that could open the door to widespread destruction of habitat for endangered wildlife by ...

Washingtonians and Oregonians, your help is needed to rally against an unprecedented new bill in Congress! H.R. 9621, the Northwest Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act, would significantly ...

Seventy-five years ago today, Christine Stevens founded the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) to combat the cruel treatment of ...

Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced it had entered into a cooperative agreement with ...

In late March, a small contingent from AWI’s Marine Wildlife Program traveled to Campo Grande, Brazil, to attend the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation ...

Halifax Humane Society and the Domestic Abuse Council of Volusia County recently announced the opening of the Culler Pet Resource (CPR) Center, a dedicated emergency shelter in Daytona Beach for pets ...

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is currently updating Chapter 7.6 of its Terrestrial Animal Health Code, Killing of animals for disease control purposes, which provides international ...

AWI’s Safe Havens for Pets program is pleased to announce Oasis Women’s Center in Alton, Illinois, as the most recent recipient of a Safe Havens Desert Grant. Launched in 2024, this grant program is ...

In March, a federal district court dismissed the US Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the State of California challenging the state’s laws and regulations governing the sale and shipment of eggs ...

In this Issue. Read about the dangers posed to black-footed ferrets, red-tailed hawks, and a host of other wild species from ...