From contacting elected officials to making more compassionate shopping choices to donating to AWI, there are numerous ways you can help protect animals and alleviate animal suffering. Since 1951, the ...

Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) debuted its newly modernized website, designed to make it easier than ever to learn about contemporary animal welfare issues and to take action for animals.

Farmed animals undergo breeding, raising, transport & slaughter. Each phase offers the opportunity for cruelty or compassion. AWI analyzes livestock practices and works to inform policymaking in a ...

Modern fishing techniques are disturbing many parts of an interlocking biological system that connects estuaries, coastal zones, continental shelves and banks, and the deep ocean. Too many fish are ...

Wildlife killing contests are events in which participants kill animals within a certain timeframe for prizes. These contests are cruel and have no place in a civil society or in modern wildlife ...

Most animal products sold in US grocery stores come from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Animals on these “factory farms” suffer pain and distress from extreme confinement and the ...

The transport of horses in double-decker trailers is dangerous and inhumane. Double-deck trailers are designed for smaller livestock, and the USDA has prohibited their use in the transport of equines ...

For over 50 years the Marine Mammal Protection Act has prevented population declines and accelerated species recovery. Take ...

The Ejiao Act (H.R. 5544) would ban the sale and trade of products containing ejiao and donkey skins used to produce ejiao. Take action to support this measure.

Synthetization of the last 15 years of research on welfare improvements to the housing and care of mice, rats, other rodents, and rabbits used in experimentation. Chapters include: housing, social ...

America's wild horses face tremendous pressure from the government, ranchers, the livestock industry, wildlife agencies & others who seek to destroy the protection of these iconic animals on western ...

A new bill in Congress (H.R. 7159) seeks to weaken the Big Cat Public Safety Act. Learn more and take action to protect big ...