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 ...

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

The Trump Administration weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with a final rulemaking that could open the door to ...

In The Dolphin Who Saved Me: How an Extraordinary Friendship Helped Me Overcome Trauma and Find Hope, author Melody Horrill holds nothing back with her blunt and unrelenting descriptions of the ...

In Elephants on the Edge, G.A. Bradshaw exposes how—through mass slaughter, poaching and capture—we have ravaged elephant populations, while drawing comparisons between the ways people and elephants ...

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 ...

In April, the House of Representatives voted 224-200 to pass its version of the latest farm bill. As reported in the spring 2026 AWI Quarterly, the bill undermines animal welfare in serious ways, ...

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—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 ...

This riveting documentary tells the tragic story of Tyke, a wild elephant forced to live within the confines of circus life and perform tricks. In 1973, a very young Tyke was wrested from her family ...

In June, the New York State Legislature passed a bill to ban octopus farming in the state, a measure AWI is now urging the governor to sign into law. AWI supported the measure by providing lawmakers ...

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.