Washington, DC—Today, on World Wildlife Day, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...

Panama City, Panama—As the world faces an unprecedented loss of biodiversity, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), joined by about 60 other animal protection and conservation organizations, helped ...

In a recent study published in the journal The Lancet’s Microbe, researchers investigate Enterobacterales species resistance to colistin in Pakistan. Moreover, the researchers report on colistin ...

International trade in animals not regulated by multilateral agreements is putting them under increasing threat. More than three times the number of unregulated animal species are being imported into ...

RTI reveals Indian forest departments lack records on African grey parrot trade, raising concerns over illegal wildlife ...

By Spoorthy Raman In the remote rainforest of Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Annamite Mountains straddling Vietnam and Laos, two ...

Today marks the start of the 20th Conference of the Parties of CITES – but what does it mean for wild animals?

As apex predators, lions (Panthera leo) roam the African savanna, and occasionally even the rainforests, as the only social big cats. A small, isolated population of Asiatic lions (Panthera leo ...

Donkeys in the West tend to be associated with petting zoos and hobby farms, but around the world, these sturdy animals support the livelihoods of some 500 million people. In Africa especially, where ...