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  1. Acquire and make easily accessible to zoo and aquarium professionals the current body of knowledge on animal welfare and ethics.
  2. Conduct and facilitate welfare assessments and applied welfare research on captive exotic animals.
  3. Convene important discussions and presentations on captive exotic animal welfare and ethics.
  4. Train professionals on captive exotic animal welfare best practices and policies.
  5. Recognize advances in improving captive exotic animal welfare and ethics through awards.
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Surviving the Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia: Reforming the ‘Disposal’of Confiscated Live Animals under CITES

Authors: Shannon N Rivera, Andrew Knight, Steven P McCulloch

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, cites, conservation, illegal wildlife trade, wildlife confiscations, wildlife disposal

2021


Husbandry and propagation of the Chinese big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo

Authors: Nichole Shelmidine, Brittany Murphy, Katelyn Massarone

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: captive breeding, hibernation, incubation

2016


A retrospective analysis of mortality in captive pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) from 1912 to 2014

Authors: Gabriella L. Flacke, Suzana Tkalčić, Beatrice Steck, Kristin Warren, Graeme B. Martin

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: encephalomyocarditis virus (emcv), leptospirosis, obesity, pathology, polycystic kidney disease (pkd), stillbirth

2016


Climate Change, Conservation and the Place for Wild Animal Welfare in International Law

Authors: S. Harrop

Publication/Journal: Journal of Environmental Law

Keywords: cites, climate change, conservation, international law, wild animal welfare

2011


A comparison of attachment levels of adopters of cats: Fee-based adoptions versus free adoptions

Authors: Emily Weiss, Shannon Gramann

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: cat adoption

2009


Farm animal welfare: social, bioethical, and research issues

Authors: Bernard E. Rollin

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Keywords: animal experimentation moral and ethical aspects, animal industry moral and ethical aspects, animal welfare, livestock research moral and ethical aspects

1995


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