The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is pleased to announce the 2023 winners of the Refinement Research Award, which funds ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has developed a new initiative to provide researchers with readily accessible animal ...

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 ...

General discussion of abnormal behaviors.

Against a backdrop of picturesque mountains, past coils of razor wire, once-wild horses stand in the frozen dirt of the Cañon City Off-Range Corral. The corral—an enormous grid of pipe-paneled ...

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 ...

AWI has updated its Refinement Database, which curates published scientific articles and books on improving the welfare of animals in research and testing. Previously, users could filter search ...

Thirty members of Congress sent a bipartisan letter to the US Department of Agriculture in February with pointed questions about the department’s effort to counter the widespread use of ventilation ...

As quoted in a January 2024 Science article about the change, former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler—who signed the 2019 memo—expressed his fear that, without the deadline, “the status quo will ...