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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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The Animal Welfare Consequences and Moral Implications of Lethal and Non-Lethal Fox Control Methods

Authors: Nathalie de Ridder, Andrew Knight

Publication/Journal:

Keywords: control method, death, livestock, Peter Singer, suffering, Tom Regan, vulpes vulpes

2024


Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: Wild Animal Welfare in the Media

Authors: R. E. Feber, E. M. Raebel, N. D'Cruze, D. W. Macdonald, S. E. Baker

Publication/Journal: Bioscience

Keywords: biology, conflict, conservation, coverage, ethics, humaneness, marine, media, pest-control, representations, science, standards, terrestrial, traps, wild animal welfare, wildlife management

2017


Steel-Jawed Leghold Traps and Killing Neck Snares: Similar Injuries Command Change to Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards

Authors: Gilbert Proulx, Dwight Rodtka

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: animal welfare, canids, humaneness, international trapping standards, killing neck snares

2017


Assessing Animal Welfare Impacts in the Management of European Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), European Moles (Talpa europaea) and Carrion Crows (Corvus corone)

Authors: S. E. Baker, T. M. Sharp, D. W. Macdonald

Publication/Journal: Plos One

Keywords: aggregation, consequences, conservation, dislocation, multidisciplinary sciences, predation, strategies, thresholds, traps, vertebrate pest-control, wildlife

2016


Investigation Into the Humaneness of Slaughter Methods for Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcelus) in the Andean Region

Authors: Georgina Limon, Eloy A. Gonzales-Gustavson, Troy J. Gibson

Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

Keywords: guinea pigs, slaughter, welfare

2016


Nitrous oxide as a humane method for piglet euthanasia: Behavior and electroencephalography (EEG)

Authors: Jean-Loup Rault, Nikki Kells, Craig Johnson, Rachel Dennis, Mhairi Sutherland, Donald C. Lay Jr

Publication/Journal: Physiology & Behavior

Keywords: aversive, carbon dioxide, death, gas, swine, welfare

2015


A simple quantitative method for assessing animal welfare outcomes in terrestrial wildlife shooting: the European rabbit as a case study

Authors: J. O. Hampton, D. M. Forsyth, D. I. Mackenzie, I. G. Stuart

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, european rabbit, hunting, instantaneous death rate, time to death, wounding rate

2015


Short-term welfare implications of capture-mark-recapture trapping of medium-sized mammals: the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) as a case study

Authors: P. Cowan, G. Forrester, B. Warburton

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: activity patterns, animal welfare, mark-recapture, possum, trichosurus vulpecula, weight loss

2013


Better rodent control by better regulation: regulatory incentives and regulator support to improve the humaneness of rodent control

Authors: K. E. Littin

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, pest management, policy, regulation, rodenticide, rodents

2012


Minimising number killed in long-term vertebrate pest management programmes, and associated economic incentives

Authors: B. Warburton, D. M. Tompkins, D. Choquenot, P. Cowan

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, bennett's wallaby, brushtail possum, control strategies, economic incentives, ship rat

2012


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