The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale species that inhabits waters off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. During the summer, these whales migrate north to ...

As we usher in a new year, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) proudly celebrates 10 big wins for animals in 2024. We have ...

The Federal Highway Administration announces winners of this year’s Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program grant competition to help keep wildlife and motorists safe on roads Red wolves, one of the world’s ...

Washington, DC (December 19, 2024) — Investigators have confirmed that, for the first time, China has overtaken the United States as holder of the highest number of captive orcas (22). A report ...

Washington, DC—Consumers shopping on Etsy for the holidays may be shocked to learn that the online marketplace sells products containing horsemeat and ejiao (gelatin made from boiling donkey hides).

Animal cruelty involves inflicting harm, injuring, or killing an animal. The cruelty can be intentional, such as kicking, burning, stabbing, beating, or shooting; or it can involve neglect, such as ...

Aquaculture refers to the farming of aquatic organisms, including finfish, crustaceans, mollusks, plants, and algae for human use. It has been practiced by cultures around the globe for millennia.

The purpose of the Laboratory Animal Refinement & Enrichment Forum (LAREF) is the exchange of experiences about ways to improve the conditions under which animals in laboratories are housed and ...

Most of the meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs sold in American grocery stores and restaurants come from animals raised under intensive conditions on “factory farms.” Animals on these operations suffer ...

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 ...

The rearing of farmed animals today is dominated by industrialized facilities known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs (often referred to as “factory farms”) that maximize profits by ...