Washington, DC—The Trump Administration weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with a final rulemaking that could open the door to widespread destruction of habitat for endangered wildlife by ...

Seventy-five years ago today, Christine Stevens founded the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) to combat the cruel treatment of ...

Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced it had entered into a cooperative agreement with ...

Washingtonians and Oregonians, your help is needed to rally against an unprecedented new bill in Congress! H.R. 9621, the Northwest Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act, would significantly ...

Fish farming involves the rapidly expanding global practice of raising aquatic species to meet growing food demand. The majority of these have no protection under national animal welfare laws, and ...

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.

The Bureau of Land Management is tasked with managing the vast majority of our nation’s federally protected wild horses and burros. For decades, the agency has used a brutal method to limit the number ...

Washington, DC—By a vote of 34–30, the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill, which includes a bipartisan amendment led ...

Washington, DC—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 ...

Washington, DC—US Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are urging the US Department of Agriculture to fulfill its obligation to ...