The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)—the company ...

In honor of National Horse Protection Day on March 1, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers today reintroduced the Save ...

AWI presses for greater protection of animals in laboratories in part through stronger enforcement of the federal Animal Welfare Act and extension of the law’s coverage to all animals subject to ...

Comments to the Alaska State Veterinarian on Proposed Livestock Standards December 2011 Comments to the Alaska State Veterinarian on Proposed Avian Standards November 2011 Comments to the Kentucky ...

Animal cruelty involves inflicting harm, injuring, or killing an animal. The cruelty can be intentional, such as beating, burning, or sexually abusing an animal; or it can involve neglect, such as ...

Washington, DC—Hundreds of veterinarians and veterinary students from across the country are urging the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to revise its guidelines regarding methods of ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act in Illinois, which would protect public health and human safety by requiring ...

"What is the best strategy to capture animals who escape from their primary enclosure? It's my experience with group- and single-housed rhesus and stump-tailed macaques that catching animals who get ...

Once again, we are forced to highlight the abysmal state of enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and the Horse Protection Act (HPA) in recent years. As made plain by the graphs on this page, ...

In 2008 an undercover investigation showing heinous animal cruelty led to the largest beef recall in US history. The meat recalled came from Westland/Hallmark Meat Packing Co. in Chino, California.

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

Historically, grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) inhabited most of the western contiguous United States, while black bears (Ursus americanus) were common in forested areas throughout the country.