With 2025 drawing to a close, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is celebrating some of the year’s most significant steps ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and 29 other conservation groups facilitated the submission of more than 387,000 public comments to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine ...

The Earth is now in the midst of its sixth major animal (and plant) extinction. The last mass extinction—approximately 65 million years ago—caused the disappearance of the dinosaurs. Although ...

AWI works to influence policies and welfare standards that govern the way animals are treated during each phase of production. Welfare concerns vary based on species. Information about specific ...

Since 2007, AWI has led efforts to compel restaurants in US states and territories to stop serving shark fin soup, dumplings, and other shark fin products. Although hundreds of restaurants still serve ...

Washington, DC—On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed multiple executive orders designed to advance policies that are disastrous to wildlife and their habitats. The orders expand ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) seeks to improve the treatment of animals everywhere—in the laboratory, on the farm, in commerce, at home, and in the wild. Over the seven decades that AWI has been ...

AWI's Center for the Study of NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data is pleased to offer up to $5,000 in grant funding for master's and doctoral students to address National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) ...

1,529,587 farmed animals killed in barn fires in 2024.

Marine animals use sound to navigate, communicate, find food, locate mates, and avoid predators. Flooding their world with intense sound interferes with these activities and results in serious — ...

Washington, DC—US Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) reintroduced the Ejiao Act Tuesday in the House of Representatives to ban the sale and trade of ejiao (donkey-hide gelatin) products in the United States. Ejiao ...

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