In response, Congress passed the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act (PL 111-294)—a narrower bill focused on crush videos only ...

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 ...

Promoting high welfare, animal-sensitive standards of animal husbandry in farming is a major objective of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI). In 1988, with assistance from farmers, veterinarians and ...

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 ...

There are four species of humpback dolphins (genus Sousa) and one subspecies, all of which are considered to be decreasing in number by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ...

Not too long ago, the loss, injury or death of a companion animal during air travel was buried in the airlines’ “mishandled baggage" report filed with the Department of Transportation (DoT)—if it was ...

AWI is proud to be a steering organization for the Homes for Horses Coalition. Founded in 2007, the Homes for Horses Coalition (HHC) is a network of over 500 equine rescue, sanctuary, and animal ...

In many cities, horse-drawn carriages are seen as tourist attractions, evoking nostalgic images of days gone by. Yet, underlying these quaint notions is the reality for the horses: daily exposure to ...

AWI's Center for the Study of NIBRS Animal Cruelty Data is pleased to offer two $5,000 grants for master's and doctoral students to utilize National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) animal ...

A little-known US Department of Agriculture (USDA) program is using brutal methods and taxpayer dollars to indiscriminately kill wildlife across the United States. This program, ironically entitled ...

Typically, ADME studies are conducted using metabolism cages designed for the single housing of animals to enable the quantitative collection of urine and faeces, normally over a 1 to 2 week period.