Today, the US Department of Agriculture published a final rule to end the brutal practice of horse soring at Tennessee ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses yesterday’s reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would ...

Washington, DC—The White House Council on Environmental Quality released today its final phase II rule updating regulations ...

Anemonefishes of the genus Amphiprion are emerging as a model organism for marine science, so there is potentially a lot for the research community to gain by optimizing and standardizing housing and ...

A playroom outfitted with enrichment devices that are not possible in the standard cage is described. Each pair [of adult male long-tailed macaques] is in the room approximately 1.5 hours at least ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased to announce the 2023 winners of the Refinement Research Award, which funds research projects that develop or test novel refinement methods, ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has developed a new initiative to provide researchers with readily accessible animal cruelty data from across the country. The Center for the Study of ...

In the US dairy industry, young calves are often transported soon after birth. A portion of the female calves (referred to as “replacement heifers”) are often reared off site by specialized operations ...

The Caribbean Environment Programme was established in 1981 as one of the United Nations’ “Regional Seas” programs, in recognition of the importance and value of the Wider Caribbean’s fragile and ...

In a new study published in Global Change Biology (Wiens & Zelinka, 2024), researchers at the University of Arizona examined a comprehensive suite of factors to estimate climate-caused extinction in ...