Animal Welfare in Predator Control: Lessons from Land and Sea. How the Management of Terrestrial and Marine Mammals Impacts Wild Animal Welfare in Human–Wildlife Conflict Scenarios in Europe

Authors: Laetitia Nunny

Publication/Journal: Animals

Keywords: animal welfare, human–wildlife conflict, pest, predator, welfare assessment, welfare domains, welfare impact, wildlife

2020

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

An assessment of animal welfare for the culling of peri-urban kangaroos

Authors: J. O. Hampton, D. M. Forsyth

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Research

Keywords: eastern grey kangaroos, ecology, european rabbit, impala aepyceros-melampus, macropus-giganteus, management, meat quality, population control, populations, responses, stress response, urban areas, urban ecology, white-tailed deer, wildlife management, zoology

2016

Improving Animal Welfare in Wildlife Shooting: The Importance of Projectile Energy

Authors: J. O. Hampton, P. J. Adams, D. M. Forsyth, B. D. Cowled, I. G. Stuart, T. H. Hyndman, T. Collins

Publication/Journal: Wildlife Society Bulletin

Keywords: animal welfare, bullet, hunting, projectile, shooting

2016

An ethological approach to determining housing requirements of gamebirds in raised laying units

Authors: Stephanie M. Matheson, Jo Donbavand, Victoria Sandilands, Tom Pennycott, Simon P. Turner

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: behaviour-based needs, gamebird welfare, raised laying units, red-legged partridge, ring-necked pheasant

2015

Improving animal welfare standards while reducing disease exposure risk during euthanasia of trapped brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Authors: C. Rouco, K. S. Richardson, D. M. Tompkins

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: air rifle, animal welfare, blunt-force trauma, shooting, tuberculosis, wildlife capture

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

A welfare assessment of methods used for harvesting, hunting and population control of kangaroos and wallabies

Authors: K. A. Descovich, I. J. McDonald, A. Tribe, C. J. C. Phillips

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, culling, lethal control, macropod, non-lethal control, population management

2015

Assessment of key parameters for gunshot used on cattle: a pilot study on shot placement and effects of diverse ammunition on isolated cattle heads

Authors: K. J. Schiffer, S. K. Retz, U. Richter, B. Algers, O. Hensel

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, brain damage, cattle, gunshot, slaughter, stunning

2014

Assessment of stun quality at commercial slaughter in cattle shot with captive bolt

Authors: S. Atkinson, A. Velarde, B. Algers

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, audits, captive-bolt stunning, cattle welfare, commercial slaughter, stun quality assessment

2013