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Acronym	Definition
AWI	Animal Welfare Institute
AWI	Architectural Woodwork Institute (est. 1953; Potomac Falls, VA)
AWI	Agency for Workforce Innovation (Florida)
AWI	Armstrong World Industries, Inc (Lancaster, PA)
AWI	Administrative Web Interface
AWI	American War of Independence
AWI	Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (German: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
AWI	Australian Wool Innovation Limited
AWI	Ancient Woodland Inventory (UK)
AWI	Aging Water Infrastructure (US EPA)
AWI	Approved Work Item (ISO)
AWI	Air Wisconsin Airlines (ICAO code)
AWI	American Watchmakers Institute
AWI	African Women's Initiative
AWI	Arizona Water Institute (education partnership)
AWI	Automated Wagering International
AWI	American Wine Industry
AWI	Africa Wellness Initiative (California)
AWI	Ann Wigmore Institute (Puerto Rico)
AWI	Ashley Whippet Invitational (Naperville, IL)
AWI	Arizona Workforce Informer (publication; Arizona Department of Commerce)
AWI	Air Warfare Instructor (UK Royal Navy)
AWI	Air Water Interface
AWI	Aquitaine Webmédia Indépendant (French: Aquitaine Independent Webmedia)
AWI	Alloy Wheels International (group of wheel manufacturing companies in England, Canada, and South Africa)
AWI	Asian Women's Institute
AWI	Asymmetric Warfare Initiative (US DoD)
AWI	Alert with Information
AWI	Assembly Work Instruction
AWI	Aerospace Welding, Inc.
AWI	Acceptable Weekly Intake
AWI	Adults with Incapacity Act of 2000 (UK)
AWI	All-Weather Interceptor
AWI	Adelgund Witte Architecte Iessc (French architectural firm; Orléans, France)
AWI	Allowable Weekly Intake
AWI	Atelier Wolf Informatique (French: Wolf Computer Workshop)
AWI	Agence Willame Immobilier (French: Willame Estate Agency)

References in periodicals archive

CONTACTS: Animal Welfare Institute, www.awionline.org; WildAid, www.wildaid.org; IUCN, www.iucn.org.

Dear EarthTalk: What is shark finning and why have several U.S. states outlawed it?

Members must receive certification from the Animal Welfare Institute, which audits and inspects members farms each year to ensure compliance.

Hogs on the range: Carolina growers form co-op to supply local pasture-based pork market

Many countries are against the whale hunting ban, the US press noted, adding that according to the Washington-based Animal Welfare Institute "about 33,600 whales have been killed since the ban went into effect." A compromise that would suspend the whaling ban has been drafted by the chairman of the International Whaling Commission.

Int'l Whaling Commission's meeting in Morocco, 'most important in decades'- US press

"CITES parties have turned their backs on this iconic species," said Jeff Flocken, IFAW DC Director and member of a polar bear coalition which consists of the Animal Welfare Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, Eurogroup for Animals, Humane Society International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Natural Resources Defense Council, ProWildlife, and the Species Survival Network.

Death Knell for Polar Bears as CITES Votes Against Conservation

CONTACTS: Animal Welfare Institute, www.awionline.org; International Union for Conservation of Nature, www.iucn.org; Shark Safe Network, www.sharksafenetwork.org; WildAid, www.wildaid.org.

Where's the shark love?

The company is only the second pork product processor nationwide to earn The Animal Welfare Institute Seal of Approval.

Case & Counter

The plaintiffs - including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Animal Welfare Institute - allege trainers' use of sharp tools called bullhooks and prolonged use of chains on the Asian elephants are an egregious violation of the federal Endangered Species Act.

Circuses in the ring for animal cruelty lawsuit; AMERICA INTERNATIONAL

In fact, according to the nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute, USDA records reveal problems at many other slaughterhouses.

Playing dinner table roulette

Founded in 1951 by Christine Stevens, the Animal Welfare Institute had a strong influence on early federal legislation related to the care and use of animals in laboratories.

Chapter 3 Development of animal protection

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is unique among all the certification programs considered in this report because it requires that facilities are 'family farms.' This means that the owner and principal caretaker of the animals raised for food is a family farmer who relies on the farm for his livelihood.

Egg labels and certifications: what do they mean?

(54) The Animal Welfare Institute guidelines and the National Pork Board guidelines each address farming practices for pigs but not slaughtering issues.

Animal rights without controversy

www.awionline.org: Animal Welfare Institute for promoting animal friendly farming practices.

Goats and sustainable farming give this homesteader purpose