American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC), Western Watersheds Project, and their allies have secured a legal victory that ...

Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC) commend the US House Committee on ...

AWI has reported extensively onAWI has reported extensively on barn fires, which subject hundreds of thousands of animals to horrific deaths each year. To address this problem and increase fire ...

The objective of this project was to introduce tunnel handling—a non-aversive alternative to tail handling—to mice during husbandry and routine handling procedures across a large facility with ...

The isolated, white-furred wolves of Ellesmere Island, Canada, are distinctive among their species in that they have not been conditioned over generations to fear humans. On the second closest land ...

AWI is pleased to announce that its Safe Havens for Pets directory has expanded to include pet-friendly sheltering resources for individuals who are experiencing homelessness with a companion animal.

AWI’s work to protect animals and their environment couldn’t be accomplished without our supporters and the advocates whose calls to policymakers and legislators reinforce our work. Even as we seek to ...

On April 10, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it would phase out animal testing for certain drug studies. The agency published a roadmap that outlines a six-prong approach to reducing ...

In May, Colorado enacted SB25-168, the nation’s most comprehensive state law to combat wildlife trafficking. The law is unique among state laws in that it prohibits the selling, possessing, ...

On March 1, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production,” to massively accelerate and increase logging on US Forest Service and Bureau of Land ...

The salt marsh harvest mouse is an endangered species restricted to the coastal wetlands of the San Francisco Estuary (SFE). Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, approximately 90 percent ...

In April, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)—an arm of the White House that coordinates federal environmental activities and policy development—took the most drastic action since its creation ...