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Issue Areas: Animal and Plant Trafficking, Birds, Cetaceans, Endemic Animal Species Protection, Fish, Marsupials, Mollusks and Crustaceans, Primates, Raptors, Wildlife Habitat Conservation

AWI is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.

HISTORY

Since its founding in 1951 the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has sought to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by people. In the organization’s early years our particular emphasis was on the desperate needs of animals used for experimentation. In the decades that followed we expanded the scope of our work to address many other areas of animal suffering.

Today one of our greatest areas of emphasis is cruel animal factories