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

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 ...

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).

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 ...

In this country, a plate of frog legs (or “frogs' legs” as the dish is commonly called outside the US) usually brings to mind France or the French-influenced regions of the American South. Frog legs, ...

Every piece of legislation starts as an idea, and that idea can come from a legislator, a staff member, a professional lobbyist, or an “average citizen.” Legislation succeeds or fails depending on a ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some countries/jurisdictions have enacted full or partial bans on the practice of shark finning—slicing off the fins of the shark at sea (often while the shark is still alive) and discarding the ...