Rats and mice are often used as cancer models—meaning cancer is induced in these animals to study the progression of the disease and potential treatments in hopes of translating the findings into ...
When a black bear mother and two cubs came into her yard to eat from the fruit trees, an elderly woman in rural Montana called the local wildlife agency manager. The manager was overloaded with other ...
Along with its obvious impact on animal welfare, this annual harvest is contributing to a significant decline in the horseshoe crab population. This, in turn, deprives other animals—including the red ...
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 ...
AWI joined a coalition of groups urging US representatives to oppose riders in the House version of the fiscal year 2025 Department of the Interior spending bill that would undermine the Endangered ...
The AWI team prepared for September’s 69 th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC69) in Lima, Peru, with a sense of trepidation. IWC68, in 2022, ended in recriminations and uncertainty ...
In a surprising reversal, the National Institutes of Health announced that the remaining chimpanzees (23 as of October 1) at its Alamogordo Primate Facility will be relocated to a federally operated ...