Following the ardent endorsement by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) of a harmful Farm Bill provision that ...

The Twenty-Eight Hour Law fails to protect animals from cruelty during transport. A new Government Accountability Office ...

AWI and Its Role in the History of Animal Welfare A writer for the Christian Science Monitor once dubbed AWI founder Christine Stevens the “Duchess of the Defenseless.” Others christened her the ...

Yesterday, the US Senate released a discussion draft of its version of the Farm Bill. In a victory for farmed animal welfare and consumers’ and states’ rights, the Senate text does not include the ...

Your support is urgently needed to help protect wildlife, including prairie dogs, beavers, and lesser prairie-chickens, on the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands in Kansas and Colorado! For the ...

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) provides a framework to protect and recover species at risk of extinction, both domestically and abroad. Enacted in 1973, it has been credited with saving 99 percent ...

AWI works every day to improve the lives of farm animals. We endeavor to get animal welfare laws and regulations passed, pressure the agriculture industry to improve its standards, and educate the ...

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee recently voted to include a bipartisan amendment prohibiting the ...

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 The program uses cruel and outdated methods, including chemical poisons known as M-44 ...

Donkeys are valued and trusted companions around the world, yet these animals are being slaughtered in huge numbers to produce ejiao (pronounced “eh-gee-yow”)—gelatin made from boiling donkey hides.

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) are urging the Russian Federation to suspend imports of cattle by sea from the United States. This request from ...