Animal category: All animals

Améliorer le bien-être des animaux d’élevage est-il toujours bénéfique pour l’environnement ?

Luc Mounier, Amandine Rave

Published in 2026

Review starting from the "One Health" principle, which aims to reconcile animal welfare, human health, and environmental protection. Tensions may exist between these objectives.

Document types: Technical documents

Animal categories: All animals

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Bien-être animal : avancées scientifiques et innovations pour des systèmes d’élevage durables

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Published in 2026

Special issue of INRAE Productions Animales featuring ten articles on scientific advances and technological innovations to develop sustainable livestock farming systems that incorporate animal welfare

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

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Incorporating Animal Welfare into Cost-Benefit Analysis

Marc David Davidson

Published in 2025

Scientific article presenting a conceptual and theoretical analysis of the appropriate way to integrate animal welfare into cost-benefit analysis while adhering to the principles of positive welfare economics.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

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Just like humans, many animals get more aggressive in the heat

Katarina Zimmer

Published in 2025

Article showing that high temperatures influence aggressive behavior in many species. From salamanders to fish and mammals, aggression increases when temperatures rise, as heat stimulates the metabolism and intensifies competition for resources.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: All animals

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Cross-cultural variation in understanding of animal welfare principles and animal management practices among veterinary and animal welfare professionals in the UK and Japan

Yuki Otani, Mariko Kanamori, Hiromi Kato, Cathy M. Dwyer

Published in 2025

Survey comparing the attitudes of veterinarians and animal welfare specialists in the UK and Japan through the lens of the five freedoms. It highlights cultural differences, particularly in terms of the importance attached to the expression of natural behaviors and the management of pets.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

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Bien-être ou bientraitance animale : à qui profitent les mots ?

Marie-Claude Marsolier

Published in 2025

Article returning to the need for a distinction in French between the term "bien être", describing an individual's experienced state of well-being or welfare, and "bientraitance", describing the positive actions taken by another individual or body to benefit the first, which may or may not be successful in achieving this outcome. "Bientraitance" thus represents the point of view of the indivual or body who acts, while "bien-être" represents the point of view of the individual who experiences the action. 

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: All animals

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Animal welfare definitions, frameworks, and assessment tools: Advancing the measurement and laying the foundation for improved animal welfare through a three-step approach

van der Staay FJ, Goerlich VC, Meijboom FL, Arndt SS.

Published in 2025

This overview summarizes the three steps involved in developing animal welfare assessment tools: arriving at a shared definition of welfare, establishing theoretical and ethical frameworks, and  designing validated tools.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

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La cognition, pierre angulaire des émotions et du bien-être des animaux

A. Boissy

Published in 2025

Article exploring the emotional and cognitive skills of animals, their consciousness and the affects of their psychological activity in order to arrive at the concept of animal welfare.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

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Relevance of state-behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare

Montalcini, C.M., Driver, C.C. and Mendl, M.T.

Published in 2025

Scientific review exploring the dynamic interactions between an animal's state (health, emotions) and behavior. These create positive or negative feedback loops that impact animal welfare. The authors propose adjustment strategies that favor positive affective states. The use of dynamic models incorporating longitudinal data is recommended to improve understanding and achieve sustainable improvements in animal welfare.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

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Les clauses-miroirs : quels moyens d’imposer certaines normes européennes de bien-être animal aux importations de produits agricoles et alimentaires ?

Loïc Evain, Marie-Hélène Le Henaff

Published in 2025

Report from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty stating that the Conseil général de l'alimentation, de l'agriculture et des espaces ruraux (CGAAER) is overseeing analysis of the possibility of imposing European standards on agricultural imports, particularly in terms of animal welfare, and adapting international rules.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: All animals

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