- AWA Standards for Birds🔍
- USDA finalizes standards to include birds under Animal Welfare Act🔍
- USDA Announces Final Rule to Amend Animal Welfare Regulations ...🔍
- Birds Now Covered by the AWA / AWR🔍
- Standards for Birds Not Bred for Use in Research Under the Animal ...🔍
- For the first time🔍
- Birds and the Animal Welfare Act🔍
- Finally! Animal Welfare Act Bird Regulations Part 1🔍
Are birds covered under the Animal Welfare Act?
AWA Standards for Birds - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
All birds that are bred in captivity and used in research are exempt under the animal welfare regulations, including those species listed in the regulatory ...
USDA finalizes standards to include birds under Animal Welfare Act
In the final regulations, the USDA indicates that it seeks to guarantee that each bird subject to the AWA is raised and maintained in conditions ...
USDA Announces Final Rule to Amend Animal Welfare Regulations ...
The final rule applies to captive birds not bred for use in research. The final rule will help ensure all birds subject to the AWA are raised ...
Birds Now Covered by the AWA / AWR: What Researchers Can Expect
On August 21, 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) amended the Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare Regulations (AWA ...
Standards for Birds Not Bred for Use in Research Under the Animal ...
... birds, excluding birds bred for use in research, covered under the Animal Welfare Act. This action will ensure the humane handling, care ...
For the first time, birds receive protection under the Animal Welfare Act
In a monumental step forward for birds who are often exploited in the pet trade, exhibitions and breeding, the U.S. Department of ...
Birds and the Animal Welfare Act
Some do; others barely comply while others rarely do. What Other Animals Are Protected Under the AWA. The AWA includes provisions for warm-blooded animals (with ...
Finally! Animal Welfare Act Bird Regulations Part 1: Who is Covered?
Those who sell 200 or fewer pet birds of 250 grams or less annually (e.g., cockatiels, budgies, finches, lovebirds, parakeets) and/or sell 8 or ...
Birds, Rats, and Mice - American Anti-Vivisection Society
Birds, rats, and primarily mice comprise at least 90 percent of all animals in U.S. laboratories, yet have been denied coverage by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), ...
Understanding USDA Standards for Birds Under the Animal Welfare ...
Dr. Anthony Pilny, DVM, ABVP (Avian Practice) is a staunch advocate for birds and their quality-of-life in captivity.
Birds Poised to Finally Get Animal Welfare Act Protections
For over 50 years, birds have been denied protection under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Twenty years ago, the animal welfare community won a lawsuit ...
Some do; others barely comply while others rarely do. What Other Animals Are Protected Under the AWA. The AWA includes provisions for warm-blooded animals (with ...
The Animal Welfare Act | National Anti-Vivisection Society
The Animal Welfare Act requires minimum levels of care for animals in many settings, including laboratories. However, mice, rats and birds are not protected ...
Laws that Protect Animals - Animal Legal Defense Fund
The Animal Welfare Act: Signed into law in 1966, the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) is the primary federal animal protection law. The AWA mainly involves animals ...
Finally! Animal Welfare Act Bird Regulations Part 2: What Do They ...
While birds not bred for use in research have been part of the AWA definition of “animal” and thus covered by the AWA since 2002, the USDA had ...
Animal Groups' Historic Effort to Protect Birds Succeeds
“We are pleased that our decades of persistence have paid off. Now birds covered under the Animal Welfare Act will at least be afforded basic species-specific ...
The Animal Welfare Act Actually Doesn't Protect Most Animals
While the AWA technically covers birds, birds are not actually protected under the law. “Free-living wild animals” in their natural habitat are ...
It includes language changing the definition of “animal” under the AWA to specifically exclude birds, rats of the genus Rattus and mice of the genus Mus, bred ...
REMINDER FROM USDA: Birds and the Animal Welfare Act
... birds covered by the Animal Welfare Act. The final rule applies to captive birds not bred for use in research. Please see the stakeholde...
Comments on Proposed Rule regarding Standards for Birds Not ...
APHIS-2020-0068). Since 2004, all birds not used in research or for agriculture have been included in the definition of “animal” in the AWA, but ...