Congress Can Reduce Pointless Animal Testing by Allowing Innovative Safety and Efficacy Non-Animal Methods for Assessing Drug Safety It wasn’t your typical highway crash. Surely, there was a dazed and injured driver after his speeding truck flipped on a four-lane highway. But the truck had a very large group of passengers in the rear. Nearly … Read more
Legislation comes after hundreds of mink farms experience SARS-CoV-2 Outbreaks (Washington, D.C.) – Today, in voting to approve the America COMPETES Act, the U.S. House of Representatives included a provision to ban mink farming throughout the United States, signaling disapproval of an industry that harms and kills animals for their pelts, exports them to China … Read more
SARS-CoV-2 is, by and large, a virus that affects two species: humans (Homo sapiens) and American mink (Neovison vison). Public health authorities tracking the progression of the COVID-19 virus in humans confirm about 375 million cases, but the best guess is about 10 percent of 7.8 billion people in the world have been infected. That … Read more
Non-profit organization releases second video of an illegal cockfighting enterprise, augmenting its evidence seeming to implicate an Agriculture Department employee Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action released a second video it has obtained of a fight at an illegal cockfighting derby on Guam, and at the center of the pit is a law enforcement agent … Read more
Press Release Reno, Nevada – Friday, a coalition of wild horse and animal protection organizations filed suit in federal district court to halt the ongoing helicopter roundup operation by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) at the Pancake Complex in central Nevada. The action by Animal Wellness Action (AWA), CANA Foundation and Wild Horse Education … Read more
Cam Sholly, the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, had the right sales pitch but knocked on the wrong door. On December 16th, he wrote to Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and asked him to stop allowing private hunters and trappers to bait the borders of Yellowstone and to kill wolves who wander from the safe confines … Read more
Boise – A set of conservation and animal protection groups, including Animal Wellness Action, the ZooMontana, and the Western Watershed Project, today called on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to close down wolf hunting and trapping in the Caribou-Targhee, Bridger-Teton, Custer Gallatin, and Shoshone national forests surrounding Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming to … Read more
A corrupt Department of Agriculture has allowed shipments of more than 11,000 fighting animals from cockfighters from the states Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action released video footage that, according to informants, documents illegal cockfighting by a law enforcement agent working at the Guam Department of Agriculture– an explicit violation of the federal law forbidding … Read more
Captive and Wild Bears Throughout the World Killed for Bladders and Bile Washington, D.C. – Today, Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, the Center for a Humane Economy, SPCA International, and other organizations lauded U.S. Senators John Kennedy, R-La., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., for introducing legislation to stop the exploitation of bears, seeking to end … Read more
Boise, Idaho – A set of wildlife and animal welfare groups, including Animal Wellness Action, the Idaho Conservation League, and ZooMontana, called on National Park Service Director Charles Sams to work with Interior Secretary Haaland to issue an emergency listing of wolves under the Endangered Species Act in response to the immense toll taken on … Read more