By a vote of 34–30, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its five-year surface transportation ...

Conservation groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service and US government officials today to stop seafood imports into ...

For individuals seeking enact to change, AWI provides helpful advocacy tools including letter templates and voter ...

The Ejiao Act (H.R. 5544) would ban the sale and trade of products containing ejiao and donkey skins used to produce ejiao.

Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) debuted its newly modernized website, designed to make it easier than ever to learn ...

In 1982, the International Whaling Commission agreed to a global prohibition on commercial whaling, known as the moratorium, but the IWC was unable to prevent Norway, Iceland, and Japan from ...

Wildlife killing contests are organized events in which participants kill animals within a certain timeframe for cash, prizes, entertainment, or other inducements. Teams compete in judging categories ...

Millions of animals are killed annually by the USDA’s Wildlife Services program—each one at taxpayer expense. The program uses cruel and outdated methods, including chemical poisons known as M-44 ...

Since 1951, the Animal Welfare Institute has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people. We seek to improve the welfare of animals everywhere: in agriculture, in commerce, in our ...

For over 50 years the Marine Mammal Protection Act has prevented population declines and accelerated species recovery. Take ...