As an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), aka “bird flu,” continues into its fifth year, the number of farmed birds killed has surpassed a grim 200 million. Though HPAI is nearly ...

AWI’s Safe Havens for Pets program is pleased to announce Oasis Women’s Center in Alton, Illinois, as the most recent recipient of a Safe Havens Desert Grant. Launched in 2024, this grant program is d ...

Mammals of the Pacific Crest (the highest portions of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Central California and the Cascade Range extending from Northern California into southernmost British Columbia) ...

A number of animal species are particularly adaptable to life on the margins of human society. These animals don’t need us to survive, but they are more than willing to take advantage of the “free” ...

The Hidden Lives of Lab Animals: A Vet’s Vision for a More Humane Future is written by a retired laboratory veterinarian who spent his career treating animals used in experimentation. In addition to ...

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is currently updating Chapter 7.6 of its Terrestrial Animal Health Code, Killing of animals for disease control purposes, which provides international ...

The Pet Safety and Protection Act, H.R. 2256 (PSPA), introduced by Reps. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), prohibits random-source Class B dealers from selling dogs and cats to laboratories ...

Despite overwhelming support in the US Senate for a bill to close loopholes in a law banning the finning of sharks, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) took it upon himself to block this and several other ...

Some good news: The Senate unanimously passed legislation, introduced by Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Richard Burr (R-NC), to restore the ban on crush videos (see Summer 2010 AWI ...

Few Americans have heard of the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services (WS) program. Even fewer are aware that their tax dollars subsidize the killing of millions of animals every year under ...