Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the introduction of a new federal bill—spearheaded by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)—that would restrict the use of body-gripping traps on ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, reintroduced today in the US House of Representatives by Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold ...

Fur trapping never fully disappeared, but it did fade from the center of the animal welfare debate. Now it is back under ...

A new study has found that the wild can be a "death trap" for animals that are released from captivity after previously being rescued. The research, published in the journal Global Ecology and ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – A Chelsea man’s cat died after becoming caught in a neighbor’s steel-jawed leghold trap, prompting the Humane Society of Huron Valley to warn residents about the dangers of inhumane ...

Their official name was the Middle Fork pack. But to some biologists, advocates and those paying close attention to wolf recovery efforts, the Mexican gray wolves had another name: the Tripod pack.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A new study highlights how small poorly known mammals could be a newly-released rescued ...

The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...

Glue traps do not immediately kill an animal, but stop them from moving, leaving animals struggling to escape.

Facing mounting complaints from farmers over rampant crop damage caused by wild boars, the Maharashtra Forest Department has ...

An important new study has found that the wild can be a “death trap” for animals that are released from captivity after previously being rescued. Slow lorises, with their large eyes and “cute” ...